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Australian jailed for life for rape, murder
A serial sex offender was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping and murdering an Irish woman while he was free on parole after previous ...
Catholic religious order opens abuse files
A Roman Catholic religious order released an unusually candid report Tuesday outlining how its leaders failed for decades to stop sex abuse in its ...
Italy top court faults Amanda Knox acquittal
Italy's high court on Tuesday harshly faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, saying its ...
Romanian pop star claims manager beat her up
Romanian prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating a popular singer's claim that she was beaten up by her manager-boyfriend after a dispute over ...
German prosecutors probe possible neo-Nazi bombing
German prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating whether three alleged neo-Nazis suspected of a series of racist killings and bombings were also ...
Hungary indicts Nazi-era suspect for war crimes
Hungarian prosecutors indicted a 98-year-old former police officer Tuesday for abusing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps ...
Saatchi admits assault on wife Nigella Lawson
Prominent British art collector Charles Saatchi has admitted assault and accepted a police caution after published photos showed him grasping the ...
UK report: Saatchi cautioned over assault on wife
Art collector Charles Saatchi has been cautioned over a dramatic assault on his TV presenter wife Nigella Lawson captured by a tabloid photographer ...
Players, father convicted in death of linesman
A Dutch court convicted six young footballers and the father of one of the players of manslaughter on Monday for kicking to death a volunteer linesman ...
BBC ex-broadcaster sentenced for sex assaults
Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been jailed for 15 months after he pleaded guilty to 14 counts of indecent assault against girls as young as 9.
Police free Spanish couple from Colombia kidnap
Two Spanish tourists kidnapped in Colombia were rescued by police Saturday in a rural area near the northeastern border with Venezuela after being ...
Gunmen kill election candidate in Iraq
Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed a provincial election candidate in a drive-by shooting in a restive northern city. A police official said the ...
UN to Bosnia: Do more for wartime rape victims
The U.N. is urging authorities in Bosnia to form a truth and reconciliation commission that would make the country face up to the mass rapes that ...
Correction: Military Sexual Assault story
In a story June 12, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was the only Republican on the Senate Armed Services ...
Int'l court case against ex-pope fizzles
The International Criminal Court has rejected a longshot request by clergy sex abuse victims to investigate former Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican ...
Reggae star stabbing death inquest opens in UK
A British coroner on Wednesday opened an inquest into the 2011 death of reggae star Smiley Culture, who was stabbed in the heart during a police raid ...
Report: Rampant child abuse at ex-home in Vienna
Children at a former city-run home in Vienna were rampantly abused, with some of them raped and subjected to other forms of sexual exploitation both ...
Effort to clean up Honduras police force stalls
In the midst of a scandal over the police shooting of a university president's son, the government of Honduras launched an unprecedented effort last ...
Bill to revamp military justice faces uphill fight
Ambitious legislation to stanch the growing number of sexual assaults in the armed forces by overhauling the military justice system faces an ...