Members of Uruguayan Legislative Palace approve a law legalizing marijuana on December 10, 2013. Legislators in the tiny Latin American nation of Uruguay have approved a measure to legalize and regulate marijuana, emerging as the first country in the world to permit both the sale and production of the addictive drug. The country’s parliament passed the bill by a vote of 16 to 13 on Tuesday evening... 

Inmates in a Chinese prison German multinational engineering and electronics company, Bosch, has come under attack by human rights activists for offering surveillance systems to China to spy on inmates at visiting time. Kai Muller, the manager of the International Campaign for Tibet, told the German-language newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung that it is unacceptable that the Gerlingen-headquartered company...