When the decision in favour of Poland and Ukraine was made, Grigori Surkis, the president of Ukrainian Football Federation, cheered and called the award of the championship an historical decision.

Top German investigative journalist Jurgen Roth analyzes the (unreasonable) reasons that brought UEFA and FIFA to appoint Poland and Ukraine as host countries for EURO 2012.

774.707 metric tons of high purity cocaine have been seized worldwide in 2011. The data definitively prove that the world production estimate of cocaine provided by the U.S. State Department (700 metric tons) is wrong.

After the release of Narcoleaks' article on world production and seizures of cocaine, the White House marked the whistleblower's analysis as "flawed". Yet, figures speak for themselves.

Every year the UNODC and the U.S. State Department show us with their data that the global production and trafficking of cocaine is steadily decreasing. That would sound encouraging, if it was true.

The Vietnamese military has been exposed as playing a pivotal role in a multi-million dollar operation smuggling threatened timber over the border from the shrinking forests of neighbouring Laos.

Women are forced to work in “baby factories” managed by Nigerians, showing how the business of prostitution is no longer on Camorra's hands only, an Al Jazeera investigation found out.

Organized crime division singles out Vietnamese, Russian-language syndicates. A focus on extorsion in Czech Republic.

A cry of desperation ran through Mexican streets last Wednesday when thousands people marched in protest against the unbearable violence that deprived the life of 40.000 in the past four years.

What's behind the generosity of Yakuza groups in providing relief to the victims of earthquake way before state agencies could mobilise its resources? A case when economic rationality veils philanthropist objectives.