A South African provincial leader has asked President Jacob Zuma to send soldiers into gang-infested areas in Cape Town to fight "emergency" levels of violence, her office said Tuesday.

The Maldives' best-known blogger, who nearly died in an attack outside his home last month, has blamed resurgent Islamists for the assault and fled the country.

Mexico's military said it had captured the son of Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, dealing a major blow against the notorious crime syndicate run by this country's most wanted man.

Mexico's military on Thursday said it had captured the son of Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, dealing a major blow against the notorious crime syndicate run by this country's most wanted man.

A gang of robbers invaded two villages in northern Nigeria on Monday in an apparent revenge attack, slitting some residents' throats and shooting others, leaving 23 dead, police said.

Years ago, Carlos Argueta broke away from Mara Salvatrucha, one of El Salvador's most violent gangs, and now leads a normal life working in a clothing factory where he was given a second chance.

A journalist who was kidnapped a week ago has been found shot to death, making him the 20th to be killed in Honduras in the past three years amid rising gang violence, police said Wednesday.

Mexican police said Sunday they had found the dumped and decapitated bodies of 49 people, probably killed in drug violence, whose hands had been cut off to prevent fingerprint identification.

Police found the dismembered, decapitated bodies of 15 people in two abandoned vehicles in western Mexico Wednesday in an apparent revenge killing between powerful drug gangs.

A group of nine men of Pakistani and Afghan origin were sentenced to jail Thursday for grooming white British schoolgirls for sex, using drink and drugs.

The northern Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo saw a brutal day of gang violence, with 14 headless bodies found stuffed in a vehicle and nine bodies found hanging from a bridge.

The northeast Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo saw a brutal day of gang violence Friday, with 14 headless bodies found stuffed in a vehicle and nine others hanging from a bridge.

Reformed one-time violent extremists and their victims on Wednesday launched a social network to halt the radicalization of youth and combat gang culture -- with the backing of Internet giant Google.

Three men were jailed for life Thursday over a south London gangland shooting that left a five-year-old girl paralysed.

Three men were jailed for life Thursday over a south London gangland shooting that left a five-year-old girl paralysed.

An escalating gun war in Sydney saw five overnight drive-by shooting attacks, Australian police said Tuesday, as they struggled to bring the gangland violence under control.

At least 28 people were reported killed in Mexico in the past 24 hours, including seven whose bodies were found in a vehicle in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, authorities said Tuesday.

"Become a Christiania stockholder today!": on its Facebook page Copenhagen's "free city", long a refuge for hippies and artists and a popular tourist destination, pleas for help to save the 40-year-old enclave.

US Vice President Joe Biden said in Mexico Monday that he was open to joining a growing Latin American debate about legalizing drugs but only to show that a change of policy would not work.

A hail of gunfire that left 14 people wounded outside a nightclub in Arizona was apparently triggered by an argument between people waiting in line for a rap concert, police said.