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Interpol reports low use of stolen passport database Fewer than 10 countries in the world systematically use an Interpol database to verify whether a passenger is flying with stolen documents, the organization's secretary general said.

26 April 2014

Kazakhstan Interior Ministry explains origin of blank passports seized from Chinese at border The Interior Ministry of Kazakhstan denies that the blank Kazakhstan passports seizing from two Chinese nationals was obtained illegally.

19 March 2014

Snowden says he took no secret documents to Russia US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says he did not bring any secret documents with him to Russia when he fled there, ensuring Moscow had no access to the files.

19 October 2013

Rare Schindler documents up for auction Rare documents that a historian says fill in some major gaps in the story of Holocaust hero Oskar Schindler have gone up for auction online.

09 August 2013

'Intersex' included on Australia's new gender guidelines The Australian government has announced new guidelines on gender recognition which state that individuals should be given the option of selecting "male", "female" or "intersex" on their personal documents.

14 June 2013

Rare British royal's signature up for auction in US A document signed by Britain's King Richard III will be auctioned in Los Angeles next week, two months after scientists found the ancient royal's remains under a modern-day car park.

29 March 2013