Increasing numbers of violent women are stretching police resources, a police association has warned.

About 240 women a day are arrested for violent crime in England and Wales, according to recent figures.

Police in Scotland and Northern Ireland say, anecdotally, they have also seen an increase in female violence.

Five people were killed early Sunday morning after a violent confrontation in western China’s tense Xinjiang region in which the police fired on assailants who had attacked a police station with homemade bombs, state media reported.

The violence, coinciding with the first weekend of the Beijing Olympics, comes amid a police crackdown in Xinjiang. The authorities say Uighur militants in the region pose a potential security threat to the Games. Last week the authorities said two Uighur militants attacked a police station in the Xinjiang city of Kashgar, killing 16 paramilitary police and wounding 16 others.

Sussex Police have accidentally encouraged residents to visit a website offering links to hardcore gay pornography and police strippers.

The force were trying to promote their Operation Beat Sweep, a programme to tackle anti-social behaviour from gun crime to grime on a leaflet.

But instead of recommending residents visit their website www.sussex.police.uk, they printed the website address as www.sussexpolice.co.uk, a domain name owned by an unrelated party that utlises it to promote links to gay pornographic websites.

British teenagers seem to be caught in a viscous circle of violence. A recent report released by the Freedom of Information act in the UK shows that the number of young offenders being dealt with by police and the courts has risen by more than 25% in the last six years.

In some areas of England and Wales, the number of under-18s being handled by the criminal justice system has nearly doubled in the same period. Figures gathered under the Freedom of Information Act showed a 27% increase in the number of children and youths convicted or cautioned.