Crime

Police officers investigate the crime scene where 14 people were killed as they watched an amateur football match in San Pedro Sula, some 240 kms north of Tegucigalpa, on October 30, 2010. According to authorities, Honduras is on its way to closing the year with the highest homicide rate in the world - 78.8 for every 100,000 people, some 286 homicides per month.

A picture of Bosnian Serb war crime fugitive Ratko Mladic is surrounded by pre-election posters showing Serbian ultranationalist Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade, 03 February 2008. Serbia voted Sunday in a watershed presidential election runoff that pits a pro-European reformist Boris Tadic, who campaigned on EU-backed prosperity against an extremist the ultra-nationalist Radical Party's Tomislav Nikolic, who wants stronger ties with Russia and bolstered by anti-Western feelings over Kosovo's looming independence.

People look on at the crime scene where 14 people were killed as they watched an amateur football match in San Pedro Sula, some 240 kms north of Tegucigalpa, on October 30, 2010. According to authorities, Honduras is on its way to closing the year with the highest homicide rate in the world - 78.8 for every 100,000 people, some 286 homicides per month.

A picture of Bosnian Serb war crime fugitive Ratko Mladic is surrounded by pre-election posters showing Serbian ultranationalist Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade, 01 February 2008. Serbia again finds itself at the crossroads ahead of an election that threatens to install a president who is a former ally of war-time leader Slobodan Milosevic, analysts said Friday. More than seven years since the ouster of the former strongman in a popular uprising, Sunday's presidential runoff pits ultra-nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic against pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic.

A police officer investigates the crime scene where 14 people were killed as they watched an amateur football match in San Pedro Sula, some 240 kms north of Tegucigalpa, on October 30, 2010. According to authorities, Honduras is on its way to closing the year with the highest homicide rate in the world - 78.8 for every 100,000 people, some 286 homicides per month.

A police officer investigates the crime scene where 14 people were killed as they watched an amateur football match in San Pedro Sula, some 240 kms north of Tegucigalpa, on October 30, 2010. According to authorities, Honduras is on its way to closing the year with the highest homicide rate in the world - 78.8 for every 100,000 people, some 286 homicides per month.

Police officer investigate the crime scene where 14 people were killed as they watched an amateur football match in San Pedro Sula, some 240 kms north of Tegucigalpa, on October 30, 2010. According to authorities, Honduras is on its way to closing the year with the highest homicide rate in the world - 78.8 for every 100,000 people, some 286 homicides per month.

HongKong-crime-acid-society,FOCUS by Peter Brieger Pedestrians cross a street that was the site of a recent acid attack when a bottle holding corrosive liquid was thrown from a height, in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong on December 22, 2009. The recent acid attack was one of a number of such attacks that have occured in busy shopping areas in Hong Kong.

A picture of Bosnian Serb war crime fugitive Ratko Mladic (R) is surrounded by pre-election posters showing Serbian ultranationalist Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade, 01 February 2008. Serbia again finds itself at the crossroads ahead of an election that threatens to install a president who is a former ally of war-time leader Slobodan Milosevic, analysts said Friday. More than seven years since the ouster of the former strongman in a popular uprising, Sunday's presidential runoff pits ultra-nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic against pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic.

A poster showing Bosnian Serb war crime fugitive Ratko Mladic is surrounded by pre-election posters showing Serbian ultranationalist Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic, 03 February 2008 in Belgrade. Serbia voted Sunday in a watershed presidential election runoff that pits a pro-European reformist Boris Tadic, who campaigned on EU-backed prosperity against an extremist the ultra-nationalist Radical Party's Tomislav Nikolic, who wants stronger ties with Russia and bolstered by anti-Western feelings over Kosovo's looming independence.

A picture of Bosnian Serb war crime fugitive Ratko Mladic is surrounded by pre-election posters showing Serbian ultranationalist Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade, 03 February 2008. Serbia voted Sunday in a watershed presidential election runoff that pits a pro-European reformist Boris Tadic, who campaigned on EU-backed prosperity against an extremist the ultra-nationalist Radical Party's Tomislav Nikolic, who wants stronger ties with Russia and bolstered by anti-Western feelings over Kosovo's looming independence.

Lifeless bodies are seen at the crime scene where 14 people were killed as they watched an amateur football match in San Pedro Sula, some 240 kms north of Tegucigalpa, on October 30, 2010. According to authorities, Honduras is on its way to closing the year with the highest homicide rate in the world - 78.8 for every 100,000 people, some 286 homicides per month.

HongKong-crime-acid-society,FOCUS by Peter Brieger Pedestrians cross a street that was the site of a recent acid attack when a bottle holding corrosive liquid was thrown from a height, in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong on December 22, 2009. The recent acid attack was one of a number of such attacks that have occured in busy shopping areas in Hong Kong.

HongKong-crime-acid-society,FOCUS by Peter Brieger Pedestrians cross a street that was the site of a recent acid attack when a bottle holding corrosive liquid was thrown from a height, in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong on December 22, 2009. The recent acid attack was one of a number of such attacks that have occured in busy shopping areas in Hong Kong.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: Busts of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler are pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: A visitor looks on a documentation display during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: The book 'Mein Kampf' (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler is pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: A visitor looks at busts of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: Busts of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler are pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: Portraits of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler (top) and his regime are pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: Tin soldiers of the Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler regime are pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: Visitors attend a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: A visitor takes a picture of busts of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: A portrait of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler is pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: A visitor looks at busts of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: A visitor looks on a documentation during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: A visitor pasts busts of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: A visitor looks at a NSDAP flag during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: A visitor takes a picture of a portrait of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: The book 'Mein Kampf' (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler is pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: Uniforms of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler and his regime are pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: Visitors attend a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: Front pages of the German magazin 'Der Spiegel' displaying portraits of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler are pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

to go with Singapore-technology-Internet-crime,FEATURE by Philip Lim This photo taken on October 29, 2010 shows Iranian expatriate specialised in computer forensic posing in Singapore. If you've just become the victim of identity thieves or computer hackers, it's time to call in Ali Fazeli. The Iranian expatriate specialises in crime scene investigations but unlike his glamourised television counterparts, he packs no gun and the evidence he looks for does not include DNA, fingerprints and blood.

to go with Singapore-technology-Internet-crime,FEATURE by Philip Lim This photo taken on October 29, 2010 shows Iranian expatriate specialised in computer forensic posing in Singapore. If you've just become the victim of identity thieves or computer hackers, it's time to call in Ali Fazeli. The Iranian expatriate specialises in crime scene investigations but unlike his glamourised television counterparts, he packs no gun and the evidence he looks for does not include DNA, fingerprints and blood.

Photo made October 23, 2010 shows residents of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, attending a modeling talent show held at the slum. Titled 'Miss Koch' (Koch is short for Korogocho), the event rallies slum youth to aspire for more than is on offer by a slum-existence where crime, drugs and sexual violence are common place, by not only organising the annual fashion show but offering scholarships to succesful participants who are part of the population of youth in Korogocho and surrounding slums that are semi or completely illiterate and know or care little about a life outside of crime.

Photo made October 23, 2010 shows a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, dressing up to go on the catwalk during a modeling talent show held at the slum. Titled 'Miss Koch' (Koch is short for Korogocho), the event rallies slum youth to aspire for more than is on offer by a slum-existence where crime, drugs and sexual violence are common place, by not only organising the annual fashion show but offering scholarships to succesful participants who are part of the population of youth in Korogocho and surrounding slums that are semi or completely illiterate and know or care little about a life outside of crime.

to go with Singapore-technology-Internet-crime,FEATURE by Philip Lim This photo taken on October 29, 2010 shows Iranian expatriate specialised in computer forensic posing in Singapore. If you've just become the victim of identity thieves or computer hackers, it's time to call in Ali Fazeli. The Iranian expatriate specialises in crime scene investigations but unlike his glamourised television counterparts, he packs no gun and the evidence he looks for does not include DNA, fingerprints and blood.

A Belgrade girl writes slogan 'I'm looking for MLADIC' (Mladic is last name of a top war crime fugitive and Bosnian Serb former general Ratko Mladic but in Serbian means 'boyfriend') in central Belgrade, 08 May 2006. A Serbian youth non-governmental organization Biro organized the action 'Looking for MLADIC' in a protest to government's failure to arrest and hand over to the Hague-based UN tribunal the war crime suspect.

Photo made October 23, 2010 shows a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, on the catwalk during a modeling talent show held at the slum. Titled 'Miss Koch' (Koch is short for Korogocho), the event rallies slum youth to aspire for more than is on offer by a slum-existence where crime, drugs and sexual violence are common place, by not only organising the annual fashion show but offering scholarships to succesful participants who are part of the population of youth in Korogocho and surrounding slums that are semi or completely illiterate and know or care little about a life outside of crime.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: Uniforms of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler and his regime are pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

BERLIN - OCTOBER 13: Propaganda posters and pictures are pictured during a press preview of 'Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime' (Hitler und die Deutschen Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen) at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of why so many Germans chose to follow Hitler and his fascist ideology and so devotedly despite the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15 until February 6, 2011.

Mexican congressman Julio Cesar Godoy Toscano addresses a press conference in Mexico City on 23 September, 2010. Godoy Toscano was accused with charges of 'suspected links to organized crime' -- allegedly to drug-trafficking gang 'La Familia' Last May the Mexican police detained 27 officials, ten mayors, one judge, 14 top officials and two police officers for questioning in a massive operation against organized crime, the federal attorney general's office said.

A picture taken through a gap in the audience shows US Attorney General Eric Holder delivering a keynote address at the Intellectual Property Crime Conference in Hong Kong on October 19, 2010. Holder is in Hong Kong and will travel to China to participate in a conference on intellectual property, including issues on intellectual property crime, financial fraud, environmental crimes and the rule of law.

Photo made October 23, 2010 shows residents of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, taking the catwalk during a modeling talent show held at the slum. Titled 'Miss Koch' (Koch is short for Korogocho), the event rallies slum youth to aspire for more than is on offer by a slum-existence where crime, drugs and sexual violence are common place, by not only organising the annual fashion show but offering scholarships to succesful participants who are part of the population of youth in Korogocho and surrounding slums that are semi or completely illiterate and know or care little about a life outside of crime.

to go with Singapore-technology-Internet-crime,FEATURE by Philip Lim This photo taken on October 29, 2010 shows Iranian expatriate specialised in computer forensic posing in Singapore. If you've just become the victim of identity thieves or computer hackers, it's time to call in Ali Fazeli. The Iranian expatriate specialises in crime scene investigations but unlike his glamourised television counterparts, he packs no gun and the evidence he looks for does not include DNA, fingerprints and blood.

Photo made October 23, 2010 shows residents of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, waiting to get on the catwalk during a modeling talent show held at the slum. Titled 'Miss Koch' (Koch is short for Korogocho), the event rallies slum youth to aspire for more than is on offer by a slum-existence where crime, drugs and sexual violence are common place, by not only organising the annual fashion show but offering scholarships to succesful participants who are part of the population of youth in Korogocho and surrounding slums that are semi or completely illiterate and know or care little about a life outside of crime.

Armed Chinese SWAT police stand guard on a street junction as a crime-deterrent measure, in Beijing on October 14, 2010. China described the Norwegian Nobel Committee as 'biased' for giving its Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, and said the award was tantamount to 'encouraging crime'.

US Attorney General Eric Holder delivers a keynote address at the Intellectual Property Crime Conference in Hong Kong on October 19, 2010. Holder is in Hong Kong and will travel to China to participate in a conference on intellectual property, including issues on intellectual property crime, financial fraud, environmental crimes and the rule of law.

Photo made October 23, 2010 shows a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, getting dressed to to go on the catwalk during a modeling talent show held at the slum. Titled 'Miss Koch' (Koch is short for Korogocho), the event rallies slum youth to aspire for more than is on offer by a slum-existence where crime, drugs and sexual violence are common place, by not only organising the annual fashion show but offering scholarships to succesful participants who are part of the population of youth in Korogocho and surrounding slums that are semi or completely illiterate and know or care little about a life outside of crime.