Police report hostages have been taken during a bank robbery in western Germany. Authorities are currently responding to the scene.

Spanish police seize 30 tons of cocaine off Canary Islands in Europe's largest drug bust; 23 crew detained without bail, court says.

Spanish police have seized 30 tons of cocaine from a ship off the Canary Islands and detained its 23-member crew in what the High Court said on May 7 is Europe's largest-ever cocaine bust.

Two employees of London's Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office found guilty of assisting foreign intelligence service.

Two employees of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London were found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service, according to a Bloomberg Opinion column.

Former sheriff's deputy convicted of reckless homicide for killing a Black man who was bringing sandwiches to his grandmother.

A former sheriff's deputy was found guilty of reckless homicide for shooting a Black man who was bringing sandwiches to his grandmother's house.

Lu Kehua, former Chongqing political and legal affairs secretary, sentenced to death with two-year reprieve for bribery. Luzhou court convicted him of accepting over 189 million yuan in bribes from 1997 to 2024.

Lu Kehua, former senior CPC official in charge of political and legal work in Chongqing, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes totaling over 189 million yuan, a court in Sichuan ruled on Friday.