A $4.1 million ruby was recovered and three people were arrested Tuesday in Villach, authorities said.

The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency said nearly 250 thefts of nuclear or radioactive material were reported in the year ending in June.

A repentant burglar sent his elderly victim a bouquet of flowers to apologize for frightening her, the police said on Friday.

A portable computer hard drive that may have carried personal details on 100,000 British military service members is missing, the Ministry of Defense said.

The police have recovered a missing truck used by safe-sex advocates to distribute condoms, but the thieves made off with 5,000 prophylactics.

Four laptop computers have been stolen from the government agency that oversees bankrupt companies, officials said Wednesday.

With 2,396 bicycles in his collection, Igor Kenk is the unofficial world champion of bicycle thieves.

In Israel?s national library, the search for missing musical archives is just getting started.

The tens of thousands of refugees who staggered out to Georgia?s capital recounts stories of mass looting, of arson and, on what seems a small scale, of ethnic cleansing.

Five men were sentenced to jail terms ranging from 8 to 11 years for robberies at dozens of country mansions across western England over a 20-year period.