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Pastor arrested for drug smuggling Sapa | 12 May, 2013 14:10 Under arrest. File photo. Image by: MIKE SEGAR / REUTERS A Western Cape pastor has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs at the Buffeljags correctional services centre in Swellendam, the department of correctional...

Bangladesh braces for unrest as judges prepare war crime verdict A student activist puts black scarves on the eyes of Shoparjito Shadhinota, a sculpture that represented all sections of people in Bangladesh's liberation War in 1971, demanding capital punishment for Bangladesh's...

Sex crimes soar in US military According to new Pentagon report, 6.1 percent of active duty women say they experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012. Last Modified: 08 May 2013 01:07<object id="flashObj" classid="clsid:D <embed...

Indian children work nearby to their parents at a construction project in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on January 30, 2010 in New Delhi, India. The children accompany their parents to the work site, where if they are prepared to work, they will receive money for bread and milk and be...

A worker carries a container of coal on his head, before throwing it into a diesel powered coal crusher at a coal depot on April 15, 2011 near Lad Rymbai, in the district of Jaintia Hills, India. Children and adults squeeze into rat hole like tunnels in thousands of privately owned and...

A child worker in a charcoal store October 11, 2007 in Rangoon, Burma.

Hala, 15, (right) struggles with a heavy load of bricks as she climbs toward a kiln where the bricks will be used to seal off the door at a potter factory in November 1999 in Cairo, Egypt.

A young boy stands in the doorway of a m&d hut before getting back to work at a pottery factory in Cairo, Egypt. Children as young as five years-old work in Cairo's pottery "factories", which are often nothing more than m&d-brick hovels. The children who work in Cairo's pottery factories work...

Sisters Divia, 5, and Maliha, 6, work as weavers of Afghani carpets in an illegal factory October 1, 2001 in Attock, Pakistan. This village has about 20 carpet factories, where children as young as five work from 4 am to 11 pm in bad conditions and for low wages.

A five-year-old boy flips bricks October 24, 2001 at a brick factory outside of Peshawar, Pakistan. The child labor pool in Pakistan is all but inexhaustible, due to Pakistan's high birth rate and the fact that its education system can only accommodate only about a third of the country's...

An Indian migrant boy works in a sari factory on World Day Against Child Labor in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. This day serves as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against child labor.

A young Indian girl walks a tightrope to earn a living at Marina Beach in Chennai on July 19, 2009. Child labor in India is a human rights issue where the exploitation of young children for labor is often an accepted practice and perceived as a necessity to alleviate poverty. India accounts for...

Malaysia government condemns Anwar ahead of opposition rally KUALA LUMPUR | Wed May 8, 2013 3:30am EDT (Reuters) - Malaysia's government accused opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of "fomenting division" and planning to cause unrest at a rally planned for Wednesday night to protest alleged vote...

Bank of China closes account of key North Korean bank By Heng Xie and Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING | Tue May 7, 2013 4:18pm EDT (Reuters) - Bank of China Ltd has shut the account of North Korea's main foreign exchange bank, which was hit with U.S. sanctions in March after Washington accused it of...