Where Potential Filipino Wives Go

Many Filipino women do not want to stay in the Philippines to look for husbands. They want to look beyond the borders where economic opportunities are better. Where men scramble at every opportunity to marry them. That place is the Danish Faroe Islands.

Located between Norway and Iceland, Faore Island has experienced a falling birth rate for years now that threatens the archipelago's future population. Men outnumber women by 2000 and the total population of the Faroes is just 48,500.

One Hearthbreaking Photo from Syria

The war in Syria is a very complicated one, but it is not hard to fathom who will likely be the most affected: women and children.

To show the tragic outcome of this senseless conflict, Bassam Khabieh of Reuters has taken a particularly startling series of photos capturing the aftermath of an airstrike by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Duma last 7 January 2014.

Why is Crime Rate Very Low in Iceland?

According to the 2011 Global Study on Homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Iceland's homicide rate between 1999-2009 never went above 1.8 per 100,000 population on any given year. On the other hand, the US had homicide rates between 5.0 and 5.8 per 100,000 population during that same stretch.

It is, therefore, shocking for this country with just over 300,000 people to hear a news report that a 59-year old man was shot dead by police last 2 December. The man, who started shooting at police when they entered his building, had a history of mental illness.

Knockout: A Game that Kills

If you are in Syracuse, St. Louis and New Jersey right now, try to be careful when walking near teenagers. There seems to be a new game among adolescents nowadays that have already caused deaths in those areas. The target is usually unsuspecting people walking the streets.

According to Anthony Sodd in his article in 'The Capital', "the rules to the Knockout Game are simple. Basically you pick a victim at random and see if you can knock them to the ground in just one punch. Often the victims of the Knockout Game are unwittingly attacked without warning or from behind, and 'players' are often successful at knocking them to the ground."

Does "Crime Pays" in Leviste's Case?

In the Philippines, some people believed that "crime pays in the end." The only conditions that a criminal needs to meet is by becoming rich, rickety old and should be a former local official.

Take the case of former Batangas Governor Antonio Leviste. He was convicted of homicide on 29 May 2010, for killing his long-time friend and aide Rafael de las Alas. The Makati City Regional Trial Court sentenced him to 6 to 12 years in prison starting 26 January 2009, the time he was already in jail.