News tagged with trafficking

New discovery could change the face of cell-biology research

Rewrite the textbooks and revisit old experiments, because there's a new cog in our cellular machinery that has been discovered by researchers from the University of Alberta and the University of Cambridge Institute for Medical ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Newly deciphered diary muddles Livingstone legend

He is one of history's most famous explorers, and his first-person account of a 19th-century massacre in Africa helped lead to the closure of one of the continent's most notorious slave markets.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

19 arrested in US for credit card, identity theft ring

Nineteen people have been arrested in nine US states for trafficking online in counterfeit credit cards and stolen personal information, the Justice Department announced Friday.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Criminals, spies swamp cyber world: experts

Finally the world has a hacker-proof communications device. The bad news? It's a brick in a glass case. The joke, told to a cyber conference Tuesday in New York, illustrates what top US experts describe as ...

Technology / Internet

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Might not be a tomorrow: Youth anticipate early death

As Atlanta officials aim to tackle the city's safety problems this year, some of their toughest criminals to stop maybe young offenders whose desires to commit crimes are being fueled by an anticipation of dying early.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Global stolen art database to trump traffickers

Global police agency Interpol said on Monday it is putting its database of stolen art online in a bid to stem the illicit traffic of artwork and cultural goods.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rare, once-royal turtle to be tracked in Cambodia

(AP) -- One of the world's most endangered turtles has been released into a Cambodian river with a satellite transmitter attached to its shell to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Burglars hunt down rhinos in museums

It was a daring daytime robbery at the natural science museum.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 31, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Gun traffickers exploit differences in state laws

Every state in America legislates its own gun laws, but not without significant spillover effects on nearby states, according to a new study by Brown University economist Brian Knight. In a National Bureau of Economic Research ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Credit card hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison

Rogelio Hackett, who stole more than half a million credit card numbers used to rack up nearly $40 million in illicit debt, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison and fined $100,000.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 7

Albania to allow international probe into organ trafficking

Albania said Wednesday it had drafted a law aimed at facilitating an EU-led investigation into allegations that Kosovo Albanian rebels sold organs of civilian prisoners during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.

Technology / Internet

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brazil government identifies uncontacted tribe

(AP) -- The Brazilian government confirmed this week the existence of an uncontacted tribe in a southwestern area of the Amazon rain forest.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Smuggled dinosaur eggs returned to Romania

Three unique dwarf dinosaur eggs that were stolen and smuggled to Italy, were returned to Romania on Wednesday, the interior ministry said.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Interpol chief's identity stolen on Facebook

Criminals stole the Facebook identity of Interpol head Ronald K. Noble and used it to obtain information on an operation by the international police agency, Noble has said.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cyprus clinic at centre of human egg trafficking probe

They may never see the light of day but Maria is not abandoning her Cypriot "children", embryos that were seized after the fertility clinic where they were conceived in vitro was closed on suspicion of human egg trafficking.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0