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Tension and confusion are on the rise in Iraq after a group of American security contractors were thrown in jail under suspicion for shooting at the US Marines in Fallujah.

Charged with the front-line responsibility of defending infrastructure projects, homes, personnel and even U.S. military convoys, private security companies in Iraq are in some instances agitating for the right to arm themselves with heavy military-style weapons.

New logging permits were suspended Friday in a huge Amazon state where the rain forest is being cleared at an ever increasing rate, a day after police launched a crackdown on official corruption.

June 12 is World Day Against Child Labor -- and the beginning of a time-bound campaign to eliminate child labor in mining.

Facing the constant threat of ambushes, suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices and kidnappers, former Scottsdale, Arizona, Police Chief Michael Heidingsfield travels to police stations and training camps around Iraq - an itinerary, according to one of his top aides, that is more difficult now than it was when he arrived six months ago.

 
Julia Guarniz, a street vendor in the Peruvian highland village of 
Choropampa, watches blankly as a seven-vehicle convoy thunders past. "They scare 
me," she says, pointing at the "hazardous materials" signs on the sides of the 

U.S. troops, journalists and contractors returning from Iraq are among those who have been caught with forbidden souvenirs -- mostly paintings and small seals and cylinders that can be carved exquisitely and hidden easily.

Telephone and cable
companies want to dominate Internet connections to the home. If they
get state legislatures to help them block competition, like they just
did in Pennsylvania, these companies would no longer have an important
incentive to build their networks to connect the underserved.

With their newly opened pipeline, British Petroleum (BP) is cutting a path of environmental and social irresponsibility from the Caspian to the Mediterranean.

Wachovia Corporation has apologized for its ties to slavery after disclosing that two of its historical predecessors owned slaves and accepted them as payment.