A 23-year-old British woman on holiday in Dubai told police she had been raped, only to be arrested herself for having illegal sexual intercourse, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The woman, a Muslim of Pakistani descent, was celebrating her engagement to her 44-year-old boyfriend, and was allegedly attacked when she passed out in a hotel lavatory.
Despite approaching police about the attack, she was arrested after admitting to “illegal drinking” outside licensed premises as well as having sexual …

Israeli police foiled a potentially gruesome terrorist attack in the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday when they arrested three Hebron Arabs with knives that were to be used to stab to death an Israeli policeman or soldier, Arutz 7 reports.
They were caught near Jaffa Gate, the most popular and crowded thoroughfare for tourists and visitors to the Old City. Police were suspicious of their vehicle and discovered their plans while questioning the terrorists.
The foiled …

Actor Charlie Sheen put a knife to his wife’s throat and threatened to kill her in a fight that began over Christmas, the BBC reports.
The star spent much of Christmas Day in a cell after he attacked Brooke Mueller Sheen when she asked him for a divorce.  Arrest papers quote Brooke Sheen saying that her husband straddled her on a bed and held her down.
The 44-year-old denied threatening his wife with a knife or choking …

North Korea said today that it has detained an American who entered the country illegally, after activists claimed that a 28-year-old from Arizona went to the communist nation on a mission to call attention to the regime’s human rights abuses, Fox News reports.
The American was being investigated after “illegally entering” the country through the North Korea-China border last Thursday, North Koreas’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a two-line dispatch.
The report did not identify …

The Islamic terrorist group Hamas are masterminding efforts to have senior Israeli leaders arrested for alleged war crimes when they visit European countries including Britain, The Times reports.
The campaign by Hamas takes advantage of an aspect of law in England and Wales that allows anyone to apply for an arrest warrant for alleged war crimes without the need for a prosecuting lawyer. Diya al-Din Madhoun, who heads the Hamas committee set up to …

Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni is not the only one who face the near-certainty of arrest should they make the mistake of visiting the UK: according to former Israeli Foreign Ministry legal adviser Allan Baker, two of every three ministers in the cabinet would also likely be arrested and detained in a British jail if they did the same, Jerusalem Post reports.
Britain is one of several west European countries that have passed laws granting it …

British government are urgently trying to repair the diplomatic damage following confirmation that an arrest warrant was issued for Israel’s opposition leader and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who canceled a planned trip to speak at a Jewish National Fund event three days ago, Arutz 7 reports.
The arrest warrant against Livni was issued on Saturday, authorising she be taken into custody for approving alleged war crimes in the Operation Cast Lead counterterrorist war in Gaza …

Dozens of Iranian Government agents on motorbikes have surrounded the Tehran office of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and the country’s chief prosecutor is threatening to arrest him, The Times reports.
The moves come just one day after tens of thousands of students across the country staged the latest in a long series of demonstrations against the Government the so-called “Green” movement regards as illegitimate.
Mousavi is the former Prime Minister who was defeated by President Mahmoud …

An American at the center of an international terrorism investigation has been charged with helping plot the 2008 rampage in Bombay, India, that left 163 people dead, the New York Times reports.
The suspect, David C. Headley of Chicago, is accused of helping identify targets for a Pakistan-based terrorist group called Lashkar-e-Taiba, whose two-day attack on luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, a Jewish community center and a crowded train station brought India’s financial capital to a …

Rapist Roman Polanski was released on bail into house arrest today, following his arrest after fleeing US sentencing for raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977, Reuters reports.
“Roman Polanski was today released from custody pending extradition and transferred to Gstaad, where he is under house arrest at his chalet. Polanski has undertaken not to leave his house and property at any time,” the Swiss government said in a statement.
The 76-year-old director, who holds dual French and …

Iran’s state radio said today that the authorities have released the five British sailors who had been detained in the Gulf after their yacht apparently strayed into Iranian waters, The Times reports.
However British officials in the region said the men were not yet in British hands and they were awaiting confirmation of the release, which was reported to have happened overnight.
A British official in Tehran said that no timetable had been established for a handover …

A music industry executive has been arrested for refusing to send a tweet to out-of-control fans of the teenage pop sensation Justin Bieber, the Daily Telegraph reports.
James A Roppo of Island Def Jam Records was detained on assault charges after resisting police demands to use the micro-blogging site Twitter to restrain a crowd of teenage girls hoping for Bieber’s autograph.
Officers wanted Roppo to cancel the 15-year-old Canadian star’s album signing at a shopping centre in …

US Senator John Kerry’s daughter was arrested for suspicion of drink-driving yesterday in Holliwood, the New York Daily News reports.
Alexandra Forbes Kerry, the older of the senator’s two daughters, was pulled over for a traffic violation about 12:40 am. She was arrested for driving under the influence, and later released on $5,000 (£3,000) bail.
Kerry refused to take Breathalyzer test at the scene, a later test showed a level of 0.06, under the legal limit of …

A United Airlines pilot was arrested on suspicion of being drunk on board a plane at Heathrow Airport on Monday, the BBC reports.
The 51-year-old, who has not been named, was breath-tested and taken to London’s Heathrow police station.
The plane’s departure to Chicago was imminent, with 124 passengers and 11 crew members on board, when the arrest took place. Passengers were put on to other planes after the flight was cancelled.

French authorities have arrested an engineer working at the Cern nuclear research lab on suspicion of links with the terrorist group al-Qaida, The Times reports.
The suspected Islamist, one of a pair of Algerian brothers detained today, worked at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) on the Franco-Swiss border just outside Geneva.
The brothers were arrested in the town of Vienne in southeastern France and are suspected of being close to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb …

A man has been arrested for the murder 13 years ago of the hospital worker Melanie Hall, whose bones were found dumped beside a motorway this week, The Times reports.
Greater Manchester Police said that a 37-year-old man had presented himself at Cheadle Heath police station in the early hours of yesterday morning. “He was arrested on suspicion of murder on behalf of Avon and Somerset Police and remains in custody,” the force said.
Miss Hall, who was …