A government-appointed human rights body has appealed to the president to release prisoners who are not a threat to stability, Burmese state media reported.

A government-appointed human rights body has urged Burma’s new president to release political prisoners or transfer them to prisons close to their families.

Burma’s president has granted amnesty to more than 6,300 prisoners, state radio and television announced today, in what appears to be the biggest step so far in a series of reform actions undertaken by the new elected government.

A STATE police officer has been arrested in connection with last week’s arson fire at a casino that killed 52 people in northern Mexico.

MEXICAN drug gangs branching out into new criminal activity are earning a steady stream of cash from the mass kidnapping of migrants, making the already arduous journey to the United States even more lethal.

India’s human rights watchdog agency has ordered a state government to investigate whether a four-year-old boy who ran a 40-mile marathon had been exploited by his sports coach and other officials.

Thousands of troops fanned out across the Nepalese capital Katmandu today to enforce a curfew aimed at derailing opposition plans for a massive rally to protest the king’s seizure of absolute power nearly a year ago.

Thailand’s government said today that it is extending a state of emergency in three southern provinces for an additional three months to deal with a Muslim insurgency that has left more than 1,200 dead.

British and American diplomats walked out of a human rights conference in Malaysia today, after the country’s former prime minister called their countries terrorist states and said coalition pilots whose bombs killed Iraqi civilians were murderers.

Mexico’s governmental National Human Rights Commission said it has launched a formal investigation into complaints by a group of expelled British cavers about their detention by Mexican police.

South Korean parents are turning to surgery to give their children a leg up in mastering the English language.

Soldiers patrolled towns and villages on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island today, as thousands of people fled their homes after a week of fighting between Muslims and Christians.