China is aiming to be the No. 1 superpower in the world. But the country has many fundamental problems, among which is a long history of bribery. Unlike Western nations, where bribery is seen as “dirty” and something to be ashamed…
A new study has found that violent crime changes youths’ sleep patterns the night immediately following the crime, and changes patterns of the stress hormone cortisol the following day. Both may then disrupt academic performance in students.
A burglar broke into someone’s house with the intention of stealing valuables, but he found the owner was so poor that he changed his mind. It actually happened near West Lake in China. An intruder with a knife and gloves…
“The dog ate my homework” is an English expression purported to be a favorite excuse made by schoolchildren explaining their failure to turn in an assignment on time. However, this expression recently took on a whole new meaning in China.
Tax evasion and money laundering are the most obvious search terms related to the so-called Panama Papers. But besides the very public airing of who has been secretly shifting around large amounts of money, will there be any real legal…
Chinese Counterfeits are becoming a growing concern and a health hazard in many cases.
In September 2011, the breaking news of a 16-year-old girl being burnt and disfigured by her classmate quickly went viral on Weibo — the Chinese version of Twitter — and soon became the main focus in China, due to the crime’s cruelty and the criminal’s sensitive…
As foreign buyers pour billions of dollars into the U.S.’s luxury real estate market, the federal government is, for the first time, taking steps to learn the identities of buyers who pay cash for high-end real estate using shell companies.
Germany has been rocked by the mass assaults of women during New Year’s eve celebrations. So far, 120 women have reported being sexually assaulted and robbed, with two cases of rape. Up to 1,000 men of “Arab or North African” descent…
Globally, there are 650 million guns in civilian hands and of that number, 270 million of them are in the U.S. This makes Americans the most armed population in the world by far.
China is aiming to be the No. 1 superpower in the world. But the country has many fundamental problems, among which is a long history of bribery. Unlike Western nations, where…
A new study has found that violent crime changes youths’ sleep patterns the night immediately following the crime, and changes patterns of the stress hormone cortisol the following day. Both…
A burglar broke into someone’s house with the intention of stealing valuables, but he found the owner was so poor that he changed his mind. It actually happened near West…
“The dog ate my homework” is an English expression purported to be a favorite excuse made by schoolchildren explaining their failure to turn in an assignment on time. However, this…
Tax evasion and money laundering are the most obvious search terms related to the so-called Panama Papers. But besides the very public airing of who has been secretly shifting around…
Chinese Counterfeits are becoming a growing concern and a health hazard in many cases.
In September 2011, the breaking news of a 16-year-old girl being burnt and disfigured by her classmate quickly went viral on Weibo — the Chinese version of Twitter — and soon became the main focus in…
As foreign buyers pour billions of dollars into the U.S.’s luxury real estate market, the federal government is, for the first time, taking steps to learn the identities of buyers…
Germany has been rocked by the mass assaults of women during New Year’s eve celebrations. So far, 120 women have reported being sexually assaulted and robbed, with two cases of rape.…
Globally, there are 650 million guns in civilian hands and of that number, 270 million of them are in the U.S. This makes Americans the most armed population in the world…
Reporter Ross Coulthart from 60 Minutes has opened the lid on a scandal that has and should rock not only the U.K, but every parent and decent person alive. Allegations…
Japanese company Mitsubishi Materials Corp. is now the first major company to apologize for using American POW soldiers as slave laborers during World War II.
Justin Martin, a former child actor who appeared alongside Zac Efron in High School Musical 3 Senior Year, has been arrested after allegedly being involved in a shoot-out with the…
After being jailed for nearly 25 years, Jonathan Fleming was freed last year after it was found he was wrongfully convicted of a shooting murder. Now, a year later, he…
I’ve been in a bind over how to cover the tragic mass shooting murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina without adding fuel to the problem…
Solitary confinement, as practiced in U.S. correctional facilities, is where a prisoner is held in a concrete and steel cell alone for 22-24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In recent years, many opponents of the death sentence have accused the FBI’s forensic hair analysis of being inaccurate, and that it might have led to the conviction of innocent…
Nine Australians were arrested in Bali 10 years ago for smuggling Heroin and in the early hours of Wednesday the so called ring leaders—Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran—were executed.
In China, government-run “relief stations” are meant to help people in need. However, they have long had a reputation for mistreating vulnerable groups.
There’s a 1 in 3 chance that if you’re murdered in America the police won’t identify your killer. The success rate for identifying the perpetrator of a homicide, or the “clearance…
