New trade in lucrative ape skulls and bones stokes fears of annihilation of wild gorilla and chimpanzee populations

German government websites, including Chancellor Angela Merkel’s page, were hacked on Wednesday in an attack claimed by a group demanding Berlin end support for the Ukrainian government, shortly before their leaders were to meet.

A Merseyside drug courier was caught with £1m worth of heroin on the M62 in a chain of events that brought down an international drugs empire

Andreas Schedler, Mexican National Survey on Organized Violence / Encuesta Nacional de Violencia Organizada (envo), Public opinion survey (N = 2.400) and elite opinion survey (N = 629), 2014, cide Data Archive for Applied Research in the Social Sciences (biiacs) (http://biiacs.cide.edu/)

Organized violence and protection and what to do about them: an open debate

Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites believed to be selling illegal items including drugs and weapons have been shut down.  

The theft of endangered and rare flowers has led botanical gardens to go to extreme measures to protect their plants, locking them down with cables and installing CCTV. But is this enough to preserve such species?

Booming global trade in 50-million-year-old amber stones is lucrative, controversial, and extremely dangerous.  

Crime statistics are a complex and opaque strand of quantitative social analysis. The official reports published by the Office for National Statistics are couched in caveats and caution. The nature of, and explanations for, dramatic falls in (apparent) crime rates remain heavily disputed and furiously debated. However, there are a number of claims about crime … A HANDY MYTH-BUSTING GUIDE TO UK CRIME STATISTICS

Testimonies from Bangladeshi and Rohingya survivors provide evidence of a shift in tactics in one of Asia’s busiest human-trafficking routes. In the past, evidence showed most people boarded smuggling boats voluntarily. Now people are being abducted or tricked and then taken to larger ships anchored in international waters just outside Bangladesh’s maritime boundary.