It's entirely possible that China is doing a better job of combating income inequality than some Western countries, including the United States.

Although their methods are often said to be questionable, Chinese authorities have clearly made it a priority to soften the growing divide between the classes and cut down on corruption in business and political circles.

LOS ANGELES — Carlos Martinez first stepped onto American soil when he was 11. Led by a coyote, or smuggler, he crossed the Arizona border with a dozen other immigrants.

The group walked the desert for four days and three nights, sleeping in bushes with only the blankets on their backs to keep them warm. His mother, a migrant farm worker, waited for him in Northern California.

The frigid air smelled strongly of gasoline when they discovered the lifeless body of seventeen-year-old Jigji Kyab near a busy intersection in Luchu, Tibet on January 19. He was soaked in it, a lighter in each hand. Kyab had gone to the intersection to burn himself alive, swallowing fox poison before leaving so he wouldn’t survive to be locked away in a Chinese military hospital.

Cell phone footage obtained by a news station in South Africa appears to show police gunning down protesters at the Marikana mine, a crucial piece of the investigation into the deaths of 43 people who died in August amid a tense strike for workers' rights.

The video shows one officer, on the ground, watching a miner crawl through the brush on his stomach. The first officer calls for another officer nearby not to shoot, but shots are audible.