To end Aids, we must help the vulnerable, not arrest them
There is talk at Melbourne’s International Aids Conference of ending Aids by 2030. But this requires the political will to help drug users and sex workers, rather than criminalising them.
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More than 50 Thai police are transferred from a border area over suspected human trafficking links after the discovery of 32 bodies in shallow graves.
Four days ago a camp was found on the Thai-Malaysia border containing the graves of dozens of would-be migrants – and some believe there may be at least 60 more such camps.
The discovery on the Thai border of around 50 bodies, thought to be members of the marginalised Rohingya community, underlines the brutal nature of the trade in humans.
Police in Burma are trying to shake off their reputation for corruption and brutality with the help of a former policeman from Northern Ireland.
Jeremy Clarkson’s suspension from Top Gear following a “fracas” with a producer is not his first brush with controversy. Here are nine of his most infamous moments.
The star of the BBC’s Top Gear has been suspended by the corporation after a “fracas” with a producer. Here are nine of his most infamous moments.
David Duckenfield, the police officer in charge when 96 Liverpool fans died at Hillsborough, says he “was probably not the best man for the job”. Here are the other key moments from the inquests.
The British Army is to create a new unit for psychological and social media warfare to help Britain “fight in the information age” and control the “narrative” of warfare.
Nearly 300 Uighurs have been found sitting in silence on a mountain in Thailand. Asia correspondent John Sparks investigates and traces the escape route of thousands of Uighurs desperate to flee China.
A series of events take place across the country to mark Remembrance Sunday, amid heightened security due to a suspected terror plot to target the Cenotaph.
A Burmese man confesses to the murders of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller in Thailand, police say.
There is talk at Melbourne’s International Aids Conference of ending Aids by 2030. But this requires the political will to help drug users and sex workers, rather than criminalising them.
A tree-dwelling carnivore from the cloud forests of South America heads this year’s top 10 list and shows that not all of the “big” species are already known or documented.
Given 60 days to find a donor for a life-saving stem cell transplant after her husband-to-be Mike Brandon was diagnosed with leukaemia, Kate Robertson’s viral online campaign succeeds within a month.
Human traffickers are selling migrant workers from Cambodia and Burma for a couple of hundred dollars each to the owners of Thai fishing boats.