In Italy a judge declared that two multinational oil giants — and executives — will go on trial for a major bribery case involving Nigeria. At its core, it alleges Shell and the Italian oil giant Eni paid more than a billion dollars for oil-drilling rights that were actually bribes. Click the audio player above […]

The Chinese government has detained GSK's China chief over corruption charges.

Chinese police took unprecedented step of charging a foreign executive of bribery.

According to a global public opinion survey, most people in the world believe corruption has increased in the last two years.

Listener Geri-Ellen Dow heard our Freakonomics segment on paying kids to do better in school, and tried the experiment out on her own son.