LONDON – Burt Kwouk, an actor who played martial arts expert Cato in the comic “Pink Panther” films, has died. He was 85. Kwouk’s agent, Jean Diamond, said in a statement that he “passed peacefully” on Tuesday. She didn’t give a cause of death. Born in northwest England in 1930 and raised in Shanghai, Kwouk...

Police stormed a villa in southeast France and arrested a member of the notorious Pink Panther gang of jewel thieves who had escaped from a Swiss prison earlier this year, officials said Wednesday.

A member of the notorious "Pink Panther" jewel thief gang has escaped from a Swiss prison after accomplices rammed a gate and fired at guards, police said Friday.