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G4S: Briton among six killed after Kabul compound attackedG4S: Briton among six killed after Kabul compound attacked
Image copyrightSTR/AFP/Getty ImagesImage caption Staff at Wazir Akbar Khan hospital treated the wounded

A British national is among five G4S employees killed in an attack on the security firm's base in Kabul.

Luke Griffin, 33 and from Merseyside, died in the attack along with four Afghans working for the security

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Australia says orphanage trafficking is modern-day slaveryAustralia says orphanage trafficking is modern-day slavery
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Orphans performing to raise money in Cambodia

Australia has become the first country in the world to recognise so-called orphanage trafficking as a form of modern-day slavery.

The legislation forms part of a wider drive to stop Australians taking part in "voluntourism"

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Jiang Jinfu: Chinese actor held on domestic violence chargeJiang Jinfu: Chinese actor held on domestic violence charge
Image copyrightVCG/Getty ImagesImage caption Jiang Jinfu said he was "remorseful"

Popular Chinese actor Jiang Jinfu has been arrested in Japan following allegations that he had abused his former girlfriend Haruka Nakaura.

Mr Jiang, star of films including A Wedding Invitation, was filmed handing himself in to the

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China employees fined for walking fewer than 180,000 stepsChina employees fined for walking fewer than 180,000 steps
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Staff members were penalised more the further away from the target they were

A company in China has come under fire for fining employees if they don't walk at least 180,000 steps a month, it's reported.

According to Information Times, employees at an unnamed real estate

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Hundreds caught cheating in China marathonHundreds caught cheating in China marathon
The annual half marathon in Shenzhen attracts about 16,000 runners - there is no suggestion that any of the runners pictured was involved in cheating

Almost 250 runners in a half marathon were caught cheating when traffic cameras captured them taking shortcuts through bushes.

Organisers of the race in Shenzhen, China, also discovered 18 runners

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Katarpur corridor: A road to peace between India and PakistanKatarpur corridor: A road to peace between India and Pakistan
Image caption Gurcharan Singh welcomes the opportunity to unite Indians and Pakistanis

Seventy-five-year-old Gurcharan Singh was just a child during Partition in 1947, when his family left their home in the city of Sialkot, in modern day Pakistan, to head to India.

Now on a visit to the Sikh temple in the

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