Prisons in developing countries can usually be characterized as hazardous and chaotic places for offenders. Due to limited resources, the prisons are left to be run by ruthless gangs.

In the past 30 years, Sanduk Ruit has personally restored the sight of more than 100,000 people across Asia and Africa, and taught his rapid-fire technique to countless other eye surgeons in parts of the world as isolated as North Korea and Tibet.

A video purported to be from ISIS shows a still of hostage Kenji Goto holding what appears to be a photo of decapitated compatriot Haruna Yukawa.

David Gordon and his wife started a foundation to educate addicts in Jakarta, they aim to show addicts they don't have to go back to drugs after the program. However the pair come up against challenges including lack of support from the addict's families.

As the U.S. gets ready to blame the Sony hack on the secretive Asian state, one analyst says "we underestimated N. Korea."