A have a go-hero stops a mugger getting away with a woman's bag during a daylight robbery in Edinburgh.

A man who stole from a pensioner while working on an island is apprehended because there is no ferry.

An RAF helicopter on exercises off the Lancashire coast helps apprehend a man who ran from police into the sea.

Security forces in central Somalia apprehend a suspect in the hijacking of a ship carrying food aid.

A publican is slashed across the chest as he tries to apprehend a man who broke into his pub.

Muslim leaders say the police's policy on apprehending suspects should be reviewed.

The Bishop of Lichfield apprehends a youth who had broken into the garden of his home.

Police confirm that a man detained by officers is the missing paranoid schizophrenic Michael Ferguson.

Police apprehend a man over a nightclub shooting after a random stop-check on the M6.

An off-duty police sergeant who apprehended two men who attacked him with a knife, receives a bravery award.

A Kenyan businessman who had agreed to help police entrap Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, is found dead in his Nairobi flat.

Exactly a year after being apprehended as spies, several of the plane-spotters cleared on Wednesday return to the airbase where they were arrested.

Former world boxing champion Nigel Benn apprehends a thief who steals his bag at Gatwick Airport.

Shortly after reports of the arrest, the State Department in Washington said it had been told by the authorities in Belgrade that Mr Milosevic had been apprehended.

The arrest of Momcilo Krajisnik is further evidence of a tougher approach by Nato and the international war crimes tribunal, writes Gabriel Partos.

The Namibian authorities say they'll do everything in their power to apprehend attackers who shot dead three French tourists in an ambush (in the north-east) near the border with Angola.

One of a pair of beavers who have been munching their way through Washington's cherry trees has wound up behind bars.

A big group of illegal immigrants from Asia has been apprehended by Hungarian border guards as they crossed from Ukraine.

More than sixty people have escaped from centres for illegal immigrants in southern Italy; police have only apprehended eleven of the escapees.