The UK police has used universal jurisdiction law to arrest Nepalese army colonel Kumar Lama in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. The colonel has been accused of torturing during the decade-long (1996-2006) civil war in Nepal.
The alleged drugging and gang rape of a 16 year old girl by leading players from the Steubenville High school american football team, and the rumoured cover up has divided the population of the Ohio town.
Senior Pakistani militant leader Mullah Nazir has been killed by a US drone strike in the north-west tribal district of South Waziristan near the Afghanistan border, security officials say.
The death on December 29, 2012, of a 23-year-old student who was gang raped and assaulted should spur decisive action…
What caused Britain’s and the USA’s financial crash? What is its legacy? How to deal with the consequences? David Potter, who built the global, hi-tech company Psion, and then served on the Bank of England when the crash began, addresses these questions with the exceptional authority of a businessman amongst economists.