Twelve people including 6 hostages were killed on Friday in a shootout between police and bank robbers attempting to blow up ATMs at 2 banks in a small town in northeastern Brazil, authorities said.

[Collins Oduor, Standard] After a four-hour dramatic shootout by police and armed ... to have been involved in the attempted heist and hid inside the bank at Ang'awa street. And when the guns ...

A spectacular $130m (£100m) "heist" at a bank in South Africa has provoked a furious political storm, revealing how deeply corruption is now entrenched in local government and beyond, and showing ...

In a scheme fit for a Hollywood screenplay, the bank heist crew allegedly sawed through the wall of a pet shop, smashed into bank vaults with sledgehammers and rented getaway cars on the black ...