- Slavery's last stronghold--"Mauritania's endless sea of sand dunes hides an open secret: An estimated 10% to 20% of the population lives in slavery. But as one woman's journey shows, the first step toward freedom is realizing you're enslaved."
- Bahraini court confirms jail terms for medics who aided protesters
- Georgia prisons minister resigns after revelations of inmate torture and rape--What does the scandal say about the Rose Revolution?
- Moscow bans protest against political repressions 'due to lack of political repressions'
- Spain: "Laws are like women -- they are there to be raped."
- German customs seize Stradivarius violin, demand $1.5 million
- The Crisis Has Yet to Hit the Wealthiest Greeks
- Journalist who embarrassed Greeks with Swiss bank accounts is acquitted
- Corruption Continues Virtually Unchecked in Greece
- Claims of rising racism in Greece as young Egyptian tortured by employer
- Greek protesters hurl coffee at German diplomat
- Corruption Is Seen as a Drain on Italy's South NYT
- Italian Town Fires Entire Government Over Mafia Connections
- Italian politician 'slashes tyres of disabled man'--"Just when it seemed the behaviour of Italy's political class could get no worse, a member of Silvio Berlusconi's party has been forced to resign after being caught slashing the tyres of a car owned by a disabled man."
- "Nigeria Is Africa's Most Corrupt Nation!"- KPMG Report
- South Africa's president Jacob Zuma faces investigation over plans to renovate home--To the tune of £16.62m.
- How to Rob Africa--"Why does the Western world feed Africa with one hand while taking from it with the other?"
- Scandal Poses a Riddle: Will India Ever Be Able to Tackle Corruption? NYT
- Karachi's factory fire exposes Pakistan's lax health and safety regime
- World Bank cancels Bangladesh bridge loan over corruption--And it appears that Bangladesh is taking its own anticorruption drive seriously.
- Yang Jisheng: The man who discovered 36 million dead--"Newsnight's Paul Mason meets Chinese journalist and author Yang Jisheng, whose acclaimed book exposing the truth about the Chinese famine 50 years ago cannot be published in his own country."
- Home Amid Chinese Highway a Symbol of Resistance--The eldery couple in Wenling, Zhejiang province refused to sell their property.
- Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan protest map of territorial claims in new Chinese passports--Add India to the list.
- Corruption in Quebec
- We rigged contracts, gave Montreal Mafia 2.5% cut of project: Quebec construction boss at inquiry
- Montreal group hacks away at corruption one spreadsheet at a time
