MEXICO CITY (AFP)--Mexico President Felipe Calderon Sunday called on Mexicans to help fight escalating crime, a day after tens of thousands protested against insecurity.

Some who searched for Matthew Wilson, 21, beliefe he got involved with rebels who reject society. Police in California are investigating if he survived on the streets by stealing from college students.

Crime by the elderly in Japan has doubled over the past five years and is likely to keep increasing, posing a serious challenge to one of the world's most rapidly ageing societies, according to a government report released today.

Jamaica’s crime epidemic must be solved with reforms to the police and the justice system, not with more death, said Amnesty International after the Jamaican House of Representatives voted a motion to retain the death penalty.

The provincial government has provided $350,000 in grants to launch an international cybercrime research centre that will investigate online crime trends and help develop tools to counter them, Labour and Citizens' Services Minister Iain Black announced