A BRITISH backpacker who was left to rot in the world’s toughest jail has to sleep on the floor and pay for his own cell. John Henshaw, from Atherton, Greater Manchester, is forced to serve time in a hellhole prison where inmates are tortured and stabbings are rife. 8 A British backpacker is stuck in … Read more
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s foreign minister lashed out at Bolivia on Saturday (Apr 6) for expressing solidarity with China following an earthquake that struck the island. At least 10 people were killed and more than 1,100 injured by the magnitude 7.2 quake that struck Taiwan on Wednesday, with strict building codes and widespread disaster readiness credited with … Read more
Another growing concern is the age of the people working in illicit markets. Gangs in Marseille are increasingly hiring adolescents as police spotters or to sell drugs, leading to children killing one another with Kalashnikovs. Authorities in the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam have caught scores of adolescents who were paid to extract cocaine loads … Read more
This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. In Bangladesh, roughly 300,000 people have been infected with dengue this year during the country’s worst-ever outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease. … Read more
