A 19-year-old man who had been stabbed died of his wounds in a hospital, becoming the 27th teenager to be killed in London this year.

With nobody to claim responsibility, the authorities consider the brazen attack to be a sign that all bets in the drug war may be off.

The 19th Arrondissement is one of the most fascinating districts of Paris — one of the largest, youngest, poorest, most racially diverse — and the most criminal.

Russian prosecutors said they had charged a gang led by two teenagers with murdering 20 people in a series of racist killings over the last year.

The ex-girlfriend of the minister of foreign affairs, Maxime Bernier, was linked to Quebec?s motorcycle gangs, which have long attempted to infiltrate politics and the justice systems.

President Felipe Calderón?s vow to clean up police corruption and end drug-related violence has turned into a street war in which no target has been too big, no attack too brazen for the gangs.