Palash Ghosh

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei's wealth has been estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars.

In 2012 the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty rose to 97 – up from 80 in 2003.

Since 1991, the overall number of Indian farmers has dropped by 15 million.

The Guptas have long been allied with Zuma and the ruling African National Congress party and are one of the richest families in South Africa.

In recent years, Turkish Airlines has banned flight attendants from bleaching their hair or wearing wigs.

Kyenge has been called “Congolese monkey," "Zulu" and "the black anti-Italian," among other epithets.

Across Africa, rhinos have been slaughtered by hunters who sell their horns to black markets in east Asia, primarily China and Vietnam.

Like my father, Besim was simply bewildered by the modern world and saddened by the inexorable destruction of traditional culture and mores.

With thousands dead or injured from the Rana Plaza garment-factory-building collapse, industry labor practices are under fire.

In March 1972, a 16-year-old tribal girl named Mathura was allegedly raped by 2, maybe 3 policemen.

Muslim-dominated Bangladesh now has women in three of its top four government positions.

Dr. Shakil Afridi was sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason.

In terms of sports celebrity, Jason Collins is a "nobody"-- it is doubtful the average sports fan even knows who he is.

Some India police officials and others believe porn incites men and boys to commit sexual assaults on women and children.

An affluent class has arisen in India that is now able to purchase symbols of Western prosperity.

Cecafa officials claim they are “encouraged” by the progress in the Darfur region.

Canada is demanding that Sri Lanka not be allowed to hold a Commonwealth summit on human rights issues.

Some 3.5 million Bangladeshi workers toil in almost 5,000 garment factories to produce goods for the European and North American markets.

In Seoul, South Korea’s largest city, prostitution is widespread and peculiarly civilized.

Who killed Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan? He was a fierce Islamist and supporter of the U.S. -- and he had a lot of enemies.

Allegations have emerged that garment employees were forced to work in a dangerous building with many cracks.

The death penalty is on the books in Sri Lanka, but no executions have taken place since 1976.

Civilian distrust of government, clan rivalries and lack of political will contribute to the endemic violence and widespread gun culture of Filipino society.

In the 19th century, millions of koalas roamed all across Australia. There are now no more than 100,000 on the entire continent.

More than 120 million people in the country smoke, while almost one million die annually from tobacco-related causes.

Cashew nuts are one of Tanzania’s principal cash crops.

Baseball, perhaps more than any other U.S. sport, provides the kind of stories that makes Hollywood salivate.

Sixty thousand children are reported missing every year in India, and more than two-thirds of them are never found.

SANA, the state-controlled news agency, accused rebels of blowing up the mosque, but opposition activists blame the government.