Russian police broke up anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Wednesday, detaining dozens of demonstrators who had defied bans in holding the rallies.

Russian police broke up anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Wednesday, detaining dozens of demonstrators who had defied bans in holding the rallies.

South Carolina authorities said a fishing crook never had a chance to land the big one. Police told The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg a robber tried to steal money bags from a bank's night deposit drop box using fishing line and hooks.

A 15-year-old New Jersey girl prostituted herself and her 7-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home in a crime-plagued neighborhood, police said.

Niger authorities have arrested a Tuareg rebel leader who arrived in the capital last week in a bid to meet junta officials who took power in a February coup, a police source said Wednesday.

Police say it now appears that a southern California family missing since early February voluntarily left for Mexico.

Three Indian soldiers and five suspected Islamic militants have been killed in two gunbattles in a forest in revolt-hit Kashmir, police said Wednesday.

A Ugandan man turned himself in to police claiming he set fire to a UN-listed site outside the capital Kampala where traditional kings are buried, police said Wednesday.

European bishops are urging clerical sex abuse victims to go to police and are promising more transparency and cooperation with civil authorities in abuse cases.

Australian police search for a former Serb paramilitary leader set to be extradited to Croatia to face war crimes charges.