Australia faced growing calls on Tuesday to crack down on the exploitation of migrants laboring in farms and factories, after a television investigation claimed foreigners toiled in conditions akin to "slave labor".
Indonesia will stop sending new domestic workers to 21 Middle Eastern countries, reports said on Tuesday, after the recent execution of two Indonesian women in Saudi Arabia angered Jakarta.
Police found two more camps on Tuesday believed to have held human trafficking victims in southern Thailand - one recently abandoned and the other containing a buried skeleton - days after the grim discovery of 26 bodies at a separate location exposed a thriving human smuggling network in the country.
Bad weather cut links to a remote village in Nepal where dozens of villagers and trekkers are believed to be buried under an avalanche set off by last month's devastating earthquake, officials said on Tuesday.
Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Boko Haram is fracturing as shortages of weapons and fuel foment tensions between its foot soldiers and leaders, according to women rescued from the Islamist jihadi fighters by Nigerian troops.
The Save the Children aid group reported another migrant tragedy on Tuesday, with survivors saying dozens of their fellow passengers fell out of their rubber boat and likely drowned in the Mediterranean as a rescue vessel neared.
French legislators were scheduled to approve a new law on Tuesday that grants the state sweeping powers to spy on its citizens, despite criticism from rights groups that the bill is vague and intrusive.
German train drivers started a five-day strike on Tuesday, their longest walkout yet in an increasingly bitter dispute with the country's main railway operator.
Surveying her destroyed cornfield in northern Botswana, Minsozie Kasaira wishes for a return to the days of elephant hunting.
Kenya's deputy president has said there is "no room" for homosexuality in Kenyan society, the latest comments from an African government to anger activists and likely also to annoy Western donors who say gay people are targeted on the continent.
A district in Indonesia's Aceh has passed legislation banning unmarried men and women from riding together on motorbikes, a lawmaker said on Monday, the latest new Islamic regulation in the conservative province.
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