Law and order

Law and order

• Ex-Saab executives arrested on accounting charges

  A Swedish prosecutor says three former executives of automaker Saab Automobile AB have been arrested on accounting fraud charges. Prosecutor Olof ... 

• Retired Anglican priest jailed for sex abuse

  A retired Church of England priest was jailed for 10 years Monday after a jury found him guilty of 36 separate sex offenses against children in the ... 

• Romania: 3 sentenced in corrupt real estate deal

  Romania's top court has sentenced the owner of Steaua football club, the former chief of staff of the armed forces and a former defense minister to ... 

• Spokesman for Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania

  The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to ... 

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  AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional

  The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone ... 

• Zimbabwe PM: We will end police, military abuse

  Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and ... 

• Ivory Coast army arrests militia leader

  A militia leader accused of grave crimes during Ivory Coast's 2010-11 postelection violence was taken into custody Saturday not far from the national ... 

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  Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges

  The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. 

• Prosecutors: More time to indict Boston suspect

  U.S. prosecutors say they'll ask for more time to indict Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Prosecutors said Friday they will not ... 

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  Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87

  Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow ... 

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  Venezuela's military enters high-crime slums

  Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas. 

• Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap

  Dozens of disgruntled border policemen forced the closure of Egypt's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the abduction of ... 

• Correction: Honduras-Death Squads story

  In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S. 

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  Woman describes Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties

  Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up ... 

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  Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons

  Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other ... 

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  Man in US quiet on Uzbekistan terrorism plot

  An Uzbekistan national pleaded not guilty and said little during his first court appearance Friday on U.S. charges that he gave support, cash and ... 

• 2 Danes sentenced for stealing WWII documents

  Two Danish men have been sentenced to prison after confessing to stealing World War II documents from Denmark's national archives. The Copenhagen City ... 

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  Briton sentenced to 8 years for UK soldier's death

  A Cyprus criminal court on Friday sentenced a British teenager to eight years in prison over the stabbing death of a British soldier during a ... 

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  Russian and American spies square off

  The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that, even after the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in ... 

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  Watchdog: Israel trying to legalize settlements

  An Israeli watchdog group on Thursday accused the government of taking steps to legalize four unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank, days ... 

• Greek police arrest 2 accused of racist abuse

  Police on Thursday arrested two Greek men on suspicion of attacking a Cameroonian national and setting fire to his coffee bar in a central Athens ... 

• UK court jails 4 Lulzsec hackers for cyberattacks

  Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch's News International were ...