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A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chemist pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Deborah K. Chasanow in the District of Maryland to one count of securities fraud and one count of making false statements, related to a $3.7 million insider trading scheme that spanned nearly five years.

Roma asylum-seekers being housed in Schaerbeek, Belgium

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.

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 cybersecurity and online safety. The campaign will provide tools and resources to educate teens, young adults and parents about how youth can protect themselves from the risk of theft, fraud and abuse online.

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.

Family members of Palestinian prisoners still do not know who will be released

A girl plays the violin for change at a train station in Beijing. Screenshot from documentary trailer shot in November 2010.

Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur on violence against women

Child labour is common in Guinea

Children cook their daily meal in one of the 5,900 camps that sprung up across Pakistan in 2010 when the country was hit by the worst floods in its history.