Sixteen members of a smuggling gang in China and Hong Kong have been arrested for rigging a 300-metre long cable to send contraband goods across the heavily-policed border, a newspaper reported Thursday. The gang had initially used a crossbow to shoot the cable across the fenced-off border between the two sides, before stringing it from [...]

Thieves dressed as policemen talked their way past guards at Johannesburg’s High Court, then locked them in a bathroom and stole highly sensitive documents, a police spokeswoman said on Tuesday. About six armed men in police uniforms convinced security guards they were at the court on Sunday night to look into a rape case, spokeswoman [...]