During our interview he was close to tears several times, partly from anger & partly, I suspect, from impotent rage. Now he campaigns for better child protection policies in schools. Alastair says time does not heal: "You can never forget. It is embedded

The World Bank has been under cyberattack for the past year, and this ongoing penetration is increasing toward global economic disaster. This situation could become coupled to the current global financial crisis.

The Bush administration removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist yesterday in an effort to salvage a sputtering disarmament agreement with a charter member of President Bush's "axis of evil."

"Restaveks" is the term for children of destitute Haitian families who are farmed out to the more affluent to act as servants & housekeepers in exchange for shelter, food & schooling. Activists, however, say these children are often treated as slaves.

Sexual violence epidemic proportions in DRC- official UNFPA statistics: >3,500 women&girls raped in 1st 6 months of 2008(only reported cases) in S & N Kivu alone. Return to fighting in past few wks further heightening risks. Eve Ensler at Kivu events

Death of 10-yr-old girl from FGM in the Rift Valley would've gone unnoticed if not for network of conscience created by dedicated Maasai activist. Family's attempted cover-up exposed. Had call come sooner, she could've been saved, taken to Safe House

Accused of taking part in vast arms-trafficking network with Angolan regime during 1990s civil war when French govt refused to supply & UN arms embargo was in effect. A Mitterand son, an ex-InteriorMinister, a Sarkozy economic advisor, some risk 10 yrs

An Iraqi official confirmed Wednesday the execution of more than 100 prisoners in a prison in a Shiite district of Baghdad, the same where Saddam Hussein was hanged, but denied an earlier report that the executions were illegal and clandestine.

Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for a long career of peace mediation work including a 2005 accord between Indonesia and rebels in its Aceh province.

WASHINGTON -- A draft report by American intelligence agencies concludes that Afghanistan is in a "downward spiral" and casts serious doubt on the ability of the Afghan government to stem