Shandra Woworuntu arrived in the US hoping to start a new career in the hotel industry. Instead, she found she had been trafficked into a world of prostitution and sexual slavery, forced drug-taking and violence. It was months before she was able to turn the tables on her persecutors. Some readers may find her account of the ordeal upsetting. I arrived in the United States in the first week of June, 2001. To me, America was a place of promise and opportunity.

If you've ever seen Donald Trump’s combover flapping in the wind, you know how satisfying it is to see unflattering images of political candidates. Sure, laughing at their expense isn’t the most noble of human instincts, but it is fun. Irish photographer Mark Duffy revels in that with Vote No. 1. His series, and subsequent book, shows Irish politicians as they appear on campaign signs, impaled by the nails and zip-ties affixing them to posts and fences. It’s a strange...

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: a young academic with coding savvy has become frustrated with the incarceration of information. Some of the world's best research continues to be trapped behind subscriptions and paywalls. This academic turns activist, and this activist then plots and executes the plan. It's time to free information from its chains—to give it to the masses free of charge. Along the way, this research Robin Hood is accused of being an illicit, criminal hacker.

Steve Wynn has just tossed a verbal grenade into the class wars. In a presentation to investors Wednesday night, Wynn — founder of Wynn Resorts — said his company is like a luxury brand that focuses on people with money. He explained that an environment that attracts and caters to the wealthy will attract everyone else. "Rich people only like being around rich people," he said. "Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people."

Today, the historic river bed of Kali Bein, a tributary of the Beas River which flows through Punjab, is teeming with life and is a delight to watch. But it wasn't always like this. The river was once filled with filth and garbage. Till one man, Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal, took it upon himself to clean up the river. In 2000, Seechewal popularly known as 'Eco Baba', along with a large number of volunteers, decided to take things into his own hands.

The 2016 presidential election could be the most scandal-plagued match-up since James Blaine’s allegedly corrupt business deals squared off against Grover Cleveland’s alleged illegitimate child in 1884. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is poised to win the nomination, bringing with her a train-car’s worth of baggage. But the Republican front-runner is at least as saddled with controversy as Clinton is—and while many of the Clinton cases involve suspicion...

On April 12, 1961—55 years ago today—Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin launched into the great beyond, becoming the first human in space. When he came back to Earth, Gagarin was looked upon as not just a hero, but the very embodiment of the Soviet Union's power. Streets were named after him. Monuments were erected. Khrushchev called him the Russian Christopher Columbus. And then he was gone. Less than seven years after his history-making mission, Gagarin died in a plane crash at only...

I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive. I don’t want to end up a “Bugsplat” – the ugly word that is used for what remains of a human being after being blown up by a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator drone.

Doing hard time in a federal prison is unthinkable for most. Even more unimaginable would be serving that time because you confessed to a murder that you didn’t commit. But if the rise of DNA testing has taught us anything, it’s that confessions aren’t as reliable as we might assume. When Anthony Caravella was arrested in late December 1983, he knew he was in trouble. After all, he had failed to appear in Florida juvenile court over charges of stealing a bicycle.

Prince transformed how we understood music — this complex and iconic artist who transcended genre, gender, race, fashion, and culture died on Thursday at the age of 57. It's hard to find any artist or music fan who wasn't influenced by him. Even President Obama addressed Prince's death yesterday. "As one of the most gifted and prolific musicians of our time, Prince did it all," the president said in a statement. "Nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative."

A New York man is tending to a black eye after he was allegedly punched on the subway because he looks like Shia LaBeouf, PEOPLE confirms. Mario Licato, 26, tells PEOPLE he was walking down the subway stairs at the corner of Essex and Delancey streets on Saturday while going to a friend's show when a man suddenly punched him. "I just saw a fist coming at my face," Licato says. "And the next thing I know I was, like...

At first glance, Gilani Dambaev looks like a healthy 60-year-old man and the river flowing past his rural family home appears pristine. But Dambaev is riddled with diseases that his doctors link to a lifetime’s exposure to excessive radiation, and the Geiger counter beeps loudly as a reporter strolls down to the muddy riverbank.

Malawi's estimated 10,000 albinos face "extinction" if they continue to be murdered for their body parts for use in witchcraft, a UN expert has warned. Ikponwosa Ero said that the situation "constitutes an emergency, a crisis disturbing in its proportions". Her call came after two men received a 17-year jail term for murdering a 21-year-old woman with albinism. Ms Ero said Malawi police have recorded 65 attacks, abductions and murders of albinos since the end of 2014.

Danny Cahill stood, slightly dazed, in a blizzard of confetti as the audience screamed and his family ran on stage. He had won Season 8 of NBC’s reality television show “The Biggest Loser,” shedding more weight than anyone ever had on the program — an astonishing 239 pounds in seven months. When he got on the scale for all to see that evening, Dec. 8, 2009, he weighed just 191 pounds, down from 430. Dressed in a T-shirt...

Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos, aka Criss Angel, the biggest name in Las Vegas magic, lives in the desert foothills 20 minutes from the Strip in a $22 million, 25,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style estate he calls Serenity. The 48-year-old illusionist, instantly recognizable to fans for his black eyeliner, spiky black hair, and heavy-metal jewelry, parks his Rolls-Royce Phantom, Lamborghini Murciélago, and Cadillac Escalade out front.

Tributes have been paid to renowned naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough who has turned 90. Sir David joined the BBC after serving in the Royal Navy from 1947 to 1949 and launched Zoo Quest in 1954. A string of successful natural history programmes followed including Life On Earth, The Living Planet, The Trials Of Life, The Blue Planet and Planet Earth.

The Raute are the last nomadic people of Nepal. Now numbering fewer than 150, they live in the forests of Accham's middle hills, where photographer Andrew Newey caught up with them.

She is between the ages of 25–34. Or she’s under 32. She is a millen­nial. She’s inferred married. But she uses her phone like a single lady. She completed high school. She votes, but she’s not regis­tered in a party. She lives in the home she has owned for four­teen years. Or she lives away from her home­town. She’s an Expat (US). She returned from a trip two weeks ago. She drives a Honda ACCORD, has owned a truck, and intends to purchase a vehicle soon. She might like RVs...

Friday, August 17, 2012: A sparse crowd waits eagerly under tents in the parking lot of the Metro West Detention Center, a drab concrete and barbed-wire monolith on the edge of Miami. Just before 7 p.m., a door opens on the side of the building. Yathomas Riley emerges. Cheers break out from family and friends clad in “Free Riley” T-shirts as they flock to the freed man, ready with hugs or tears or both. Someone places a pair of black Nike flip-flops at Yathomas’ feet. He slips out of his worn, faded-yellow shower shoes and...

For months, a small team of U.S. Navy investigators and federal prosecutors secretly devised options for a high-stakes international manhunt. Could the target be snatched from his home base in Asia and rendered to the United States? Or held captive aboard an American warship?Making the challenge even tougher was the fact that the man was a master of espionage. His moles had burrowed deep into the Navy hierarchy to leak him a stream of military secrets, thwarting previous efforts to bring him to justice.