"Visas for sale. Attractive prices". On Saudi classified advertising website 'mstaml', hundreds of ads blatantly advertise under the table deals and bureaucratic bribery. Jobs, visas, marriage loans, diplomas... virtually anything can be bought and paid for. Our Observer tells us why. Read more...

A senior Russian police officer who dared to denounce the corruption of his colleagues in a YouTube video has been fired just two days after his confession. Read more and watch the video...

"Driver, give way to expensive foreign cars with flashing lights!"

Muscovites were, on September 24, surprised to find adverts in the city streets suggesting that their council was corrupt, xenophobic and irresponsible. Carrying the council logo, the allegations seemed to be coming straight from the horse's mouth. Read more and see the photos...

Looking on the bright side of going "back to school", one Chinese journalist decided to ask a group of infant school children what they want to do when they grow up. Most of the answers are pretty standard, but the last one comes as something of a surprise. See the video...

There were 93 workers in the mine when a sudden firedamp explosion occurred. So far, only 14 have come out safe and sound. The local government claims that it had ordered the mine’s closure for security reasons. So why did this tragedy occur? Read more...

Afghanistan heads to the polls today. The event however, is likely to be tarnished by election fraud. To prove just how easy it is to buy a fake voting card, one Afghan thought it amusing to get one in the name of... Britney Spears. Read more...

Images showing dozens of tourists sleeping on the Great Wall of China have infuriated Chinese Web users. One of them blames the authorities, who he says, are easily corrupted by bribes. Read more...

This video shows Nigerian Islamist militant Mohammed Yusuf just before he was handed over to the police. Hours later, he died. The footage of the sect leader being interrogated by the army strongly implies that the he was not killed in battle, as initially reported by the authorities. Watch the video…

A conversation recorded between a deputy member of the March 14 coalition – recent winners of the last legislative elections – and a priest who had refused to campaign for them is making a lot of noise in Lebanon. Our Observer tells us these practices – corruption, intimidation, threats – are common there. Read more…

Nine people were crushed to death and 16 seriously injured when 200 metres of motorway collapsed in the Hunan province of China on May 17. The local media says that the company charged with demolishing the construction is who's at fault for the catastrophe. Read more...