A German police officer told media that law enforcement cannot efficiently tackle crime among refugees without being accused of excessive violence or racism, while many dangerous incidents are played down or kept secret to maintain desirable statistics.

Two U.S. Navy boats were taken into Iranian custody on Tuesday but Iran has told the United States that the crews will be returned "promptly," U.S. officials said.

Mr Shin, everybody expected to see inflation this year, but prices are hardly rising. What's happened? Economists are still struggling to figure out the full story on inflation. The simple stories that people tell are no longer adequate. These simple stories are domestic and short-term: If the economy is depressed, you have low inflation. If the economy is overheated, you have high inflation. We are realising that this cannot be the full story. Otherwise we should be seeing higher inflation by now.

When survey respondents were offered a small cash reward — a dollar or two — for producing a correct answer about the unemployment rate and other economic conditions, they were more likely to be accurate and less likely to produce an answer that fit their partisan biases.
In other words, when money was added to the equation, questions about the economy became less like asking people which football team they thought was best, and more like asking them to place a wager.

While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect’s potential for violence the way a bank might run a credit report.

Marius Youbi, described as ‘the best we have’ by Aarhus University, exceeded limit for hours and had to return to Cameroon

Stockholm's largest swimming centre, Eriksdalsbadet is making waves after deciding to introduce segregated jacuzzis, following reports of groping beneath the bubbles.

In the wake of a spate of New Year's Eve assaults in European cities, some leaders have reiterated their tough stance on stopping the flow of migrants into the continent.

The German city of Cologne, still shaken by a spate of sexual assaults in a crowd of migrants on New Year's Eve, was braced Saturday for a rally of the xenophobic PEGIDA movement.

Hungarian prime minister calls for fences to be built on Greece's northern
border to stem flow of refugees