Rideshare customers in Texas will soon have the option to match with armed drivers with a background in law enforcement.

A fast-thinking woman used Apple's Find My tracking app to help police locate her friend after she was kidnapped by her armed boyfriend.

A man who showed up at a hotel for a Tinder date was robbed by an armed couple.

An axe-wielding man reportedly broke into a Portland home and resisted arrest by swinging a sword at armed police.

An 84-year-old man who reportedly robbed an Arizona credit union armed with only a BB gun has been sentenced to 21 years in prison. 

An armed murder suspect is at large in Kentucky after he allegedly snipped off his ankle monitor and fleed before showing up for his court appearance.

A Japanese man who reportedly attempted to rob a Starbucks store in Japan while armed with a fire extinguisher has been arrested.

Prince William and Kate Middleton are facing quite a roadblock for their trip to Pakistan in autumn. The trip involves a huge risk potential as multiple areas in Pakistan are considered hotspots for crimes against Westerners. 

A new study of war casualties in 2012 has placed Mexico second only to Syria in the number of deaths reported last year. The study from a think tank in Geneva, Switzerland, reported that a total 95,000 people died last year as a result of armed conflicts.

One of the victims said that a group of 10 armed men descended upon the train carrying them and stripped them of clothes, money and backpacks. Attacks on migrants hitching a ride to the United States on cargo trains in Mexico's southern states often occur with the collusion of train operators.

Anywhere between 130,000 to 400,000 civilian militia members in Venezuela have already been armed since Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s predecessor Hugo Chávez returned to office after a 2002 attempted coup. Now Maduro says he wants to hike that number up to 1 million.

9 inmates escaped when gunmen opened fire on their prison, killing two guards.

Nicole Kelly a one armed woman, has won the Miss. Iowa pageant and hopes a Miss America crown is in her future.

The leader of the gun lobby on Sunday defended his call for placing armed guards in all American schools despite withering criticism of the group's response to the massacre of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Connecticut.

The powerful U.S. gun rights lobby went on the offensive on Friday, arguing that schools should have armed guards, on a day that Americans remembered the victims of the Connecticut school massacre with a moment of silence.