Pakistani police say they plan to ask a court to charge five Americans arrested in early December with terrorism, and will seek life imprisonment sentences against them.

Police in Finland have confirmed that the gunman who killed five people in the town of Espoo committed suicide.

Finnish police say they have found a body believed to be the gunman who killed four people in a shopping center in the city of Espoo.

Police say militants have beheaded six Afghans for cooperating with government authorities.

A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday at a suburban shopping mall near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, killing four people, police and witnesses said.

Suspected Islamist militants killed two soldiers and four civilians in drive-by shootings in the latest violence to rock Thailand's insurgency-hit south, police said Thursday.

Authorities arrested a senior Pakistani Taliban commander who led the group's network in the key central province of Punjab, where violence has been increasing in recent months, police said Thursday.

An escaped British criminal dubbed "the Facebook fugitive" has become an Internet hit, taunting police via the online social networking site and notching up nearly 30,000 "friends" by Thursday.

Finnish police have confirmed that four people were killed after a gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in Finland's second largest city.

Taliban militants beheaded six Afghans they accused of spying for the government of President Hamid Karzai, police said Thursday, confirming the men had "cooperated with the authorities".