Mazher Mahmood denies `phone hacking` involvement in spot-fixing story
Former News of the World journalist Mazher Mahmood has denied that his investigation into alleged spot-fixing at last year's Lord's Test between Pakistan and England began after the unlawful taking of evidence from hacked phones.
Secretary Napolitano Announces Stop.Think.Connect.™ Campaign Partnership with the YWCA
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Stop.Think.Connect.™ campaign today announced a new partnership with the YWCA, which serves nearly 2.6 million women and girls across the country, to expand its effort to promote the importance of...
Should Minor Offenders Be Subject To Strip Searches?
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case testing whether prison guards may constitutionally strip-search even minor traffic offenders when they are arrested and taken to jail.
ISRAEL-OPT: Families relieved by prisoner swap

Family members of Palestinian prisoners still do not know who will be released
China: “Do you have memories from before you were kidnapped?”

A girl plays the violin for change at a train station in Beijing. Screenshot from...
UN expert urges States to fulfil obligation to prevent violence against women

Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur on violence against women
GUINEA-MAURITANIA: Worst forms of child labour still widespread

Child labour is common in Guinea
Pakistan: UN humanitarian fund allocates money to sustain flood relief

Children cook their daily meal in one of the 5,900 camps that sprung up across Pakistan in 2010 when...
Haiti: UN voices hopes for greater reconstruction after approval of new premier

Special Representative for Haiti Mariano Fernández
UN presses Afghans to seize opportunity for dialogue, despite recent setbacks

Special Representative for Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura briefs Security Council