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Prostitution, servitude and forced labour are the key trades that represent modern-day slavery - human trafficking, the most diverse nature of which can be seen in the Greater Mekong region.

Iran Nuke Talks in Geneva was in an upbeat mood, could Iran and The West reach a compromise?

The war on drugs may take a new turn, as reports suggest that the popularity of synthetic drugs may be on the rise. Annual surveys focusing on drug use and general drug information suggest that most users prefer taking chemically enhanced drug products like ecstasy, LSD and ketamine.

Rihanna has once again unwittingly taken part in helping Thai authorities arrest crooks. The Barbadian music superstar’s seemingly harmless tweets in September have led to the arrest of a bar owner on Saturday for allegedly running a lewd sex show.

It seems like the best job in the world, being a famous pop star-- getting paid to do what you love, travelling, sponsored clothes and parties, the list goes on and on. But fame often takes a dark turn when the issue of privacy and boundaries comes into question.

Pope Francis and his much-touted humble advocacy and leadership will be put in the limelight and consequently tested as to how he will handle the alleged lavish lifestyle spending of German bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst. The latter is currently in the radar of the Roman Catholic group for allegedly allocating some $42 million to renovate his residence and construct new diocesan offices.

Nuclear talks of Iran with the six world powers known as P5+1, involving Russia, China, France, Britain, U.S. and Germany, are set Tuesday (Oct. 15) in Geneva, Switzerland, according to Press TV Iran.

Social media giant Facebook and Internet search king Google both announced modifying their privacy terms which will have far-reaching implications for their users.

Habits die hard. Giving a taste of what firefighters can deliver, Belgian firemen protesting in Brussels against government austerity measures sprayed foam on policemen outside the prime minister’s office, which was blocked by riot police and barbed wire fences.

ADFA Skype sex cadet Daniel McDonald faces another lewd scandal – “Love of My Life”

Russian authorities detained over 67 people at a gay pride rally at St. Petersburg after a clash between lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists and anti-gay protestors Saturday.

MasterChef finalist Josh Marks committed suicide and was pronounced dead Friday evening according to the Chicago police.

If Jeane Napoles, the flamboyant and public attention-seeking daughter of Janet Lim-Napoles, tagged the pork barrel scam queen of the Philippines, is facing legal problems now, she could only blame herself and her selfie pictures.

Krokodil, or desomorphine as it is called medically, is being spotted at an alarming rate in some U.S. states. The drug which originated from Russia uses toxic components such as lighter fluid, codeine pills, paint thinner and matchboxes to make a cheaper and more horrifying form of heroin. Just how horrifying, you ask? Those addicted to the drug develop scaly skin (much like a crocodile, hence its name) as the drug destroys tissue and blood vessels. A flesh eating drug that acts more rapidly on...

With many people now constantly stuck on their handheld devices, from tablets to smartphones, we live in a world of screens. When Nikhom Thephakaysone brought out a .45 caliber gun in a crowded Muni train, no one noticed him. Thephakaysone brandished the weapon several times but no one saw him as the passengers were all too busy checking their mails and updating their Facebooks.

Rewards of up to $500,000 are offered by the NSW police force for any information that might help them to crack the unsolved murder cases. Here are five such cases that the police needs help from the community to crack.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Thursday arrested three people in relation to trafficking and exploitation of four Filipino nationals. A press release issued by the AFP said, the arrested include two men from Green Valley, NSW, aged 59 and 33. The third person arrested in this case is a Green Valley woman, aged 34.

The ruling of the provincial British Columbia Court of Appeal to uphold on Thursday the ruling that bans assisted suicide or right to die has gone controversial. Supporters vowed to take the matter before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Essex authorities caught a man for keeping endangered birds in a freezer. Apparently, they found frozen owls inside the household freezer of the arrested man.

The verdict of William Patrick Mitchell is set to be reviewed this weekend, Oct. 13, by the Parole Review Board. Any comment or recommendation given by the Board will have to be reviewed by the attorney general. Should he be seen as fit for parole, the governor will have to sign off if he has to return to society.

Female drivers from Saudi Arabia are revving up to stage a protest on Oct 26 to pressure state government to lift the ban on women driving.

A Delta flight to Las Vegas last week had an unusual passenger - a 9-year-old boy, alone and without a ticket. Reports say the boy went through security without incident but officials of the airport are still boggled on how the boy did it. Getting through security, he then boarded the plane.

There is a possibility that Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro died not because he committed suicide but possibly due to auto-erotic asphyxiation. In plain language, that means masturbating himself to death.

A Japanese man pretending to look for tea-drinking companions was actually looking for sexual partners for the elderly. On the outside, it may appear to onlookers that the elderly members of the Japanese 'Three Loves' club is just drinking afternoon tea when they gather. What actually happens behind the guise of ceremonial tea-drinking is the possibility of sexual encounters among the elderly.

A Canberra heroin addict, John Christopher Walmsley, is now facing four years in jail due to a botched suicide attempt. On New Year's Day 2011, an unnamed 25-year-old woman ended her life in a supposed suicide pact with Mr Walmsley. The former survived, called triple-0 and performed CPR on his then girlfriend to no avail.

Zoran Zivanovic, the 56-year-old massage therapist accused of inappropriately touching his clients, is now facing life behind bars. According to reports, seven women filed cases against the masseur on the bases that Mr Zivanovic fondled their breasts--an act that was uncalled for in the remedial massage therapies that he had been performing on them.

Same-sex marriage advocates in Australia said states and territories have the constitutional power to legalise gay marriage based on a Tasmanian report. The Tasmania Institute of Law Reform has published a report in response to an upper house vote in same-sex marriage legislation in Tasmania in 2012.

With seven more arrests on Sunday, the Madagascar police have now made 26 arrests over the lynching of two Europeans and one local by a violent mob on Thursday in the popular tourist location of Nosy Be.

It's not every day that a court gets to see a dead man walk up to a judge and demand that he be recognized as, well, alive. In the case of Donald Miller that's exactly what happened. The 61-year-old had been proclaimed dead since 1994 following a disappearance from his Arcadia rental home. Apparently, Mr Miller lost his job sometime before 1990 and as an alcoholic had nowhere to go and "had nothing left."