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The rape of 207 male teenage recruits at the Australian naval vessel HMAS Leeuwin from 1960 to 1984 is within the scope of the current Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The confirmation came from Len Roberts-Smith, chair of the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce.

A paraplegic man from Repentingy, Quebec in Canada is suing the Le Gardeur Hospital for negligence and indescribable anguish, and he is asking for $142,000 damage. The lawsuit is for a botched surgery that resulted in his penis becoming shorter by one inch.

Canadian police have seized marijuana weighing more than 400 pounds.

The Al Shabaab, a Sunni Islamist militia based in Somalia and believed to have links with al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for attacks on Sunday that killed 49 single men and women watching the World Cup matches in a Kenyan hotel.

American low-cost airline JetBlue Airways is currently in hot seat after one of its flight attendants has denied a toddler's potty use while the flight sat on the tarmac.

The advent of San Francisco-based Uber taxi app in European Union (EU) countries sparked massive strike across various cities such as London, Berlin, Paris, France, Barcelona and Madrid. Traditional taxi drivers mounted large-scale strikes across the various cities that commuters are beset with chaotic days of heavy traffic.

The government of Ireland on Tuesday announced the launch of a full-scale probe into existing Catholic-run homes for unmarried mothers following the discovery of a septic tank mass grave that revealed the bodies of 800 babies and children.

The Australian Navy will impose sanctions on eight sailors from the HMAS Ballarat who were involved in 2013 in hazing rites with sex assault. Some of them are in danger of being kicked out of service, said the Ministry of Defence in a statement.

Another Mayweather is in trouble with the law for stabbing her boyfriend with a butcher's knife. Kenyia Townsend, 35, and cousin of undefeated American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr, waived on Tuesday her right to a probable cause hearing.

Archbishop Robert Carlson said that he was not sure if sex with children was a crime.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's household is embroiled in a nude photo scandal that the police had to be called to investigate.

Parents of Saba Button left paralysed by flu vaccine agrees to a settlement with Fluvax manufacturer

Gottfrid Svartholm’s, founder of The Pirate Bay, computer had been hacked reveals new evidence made public during the court hearing. TPB founder remains in custody for hacking into the mainframe computers of an IT company.

The Canadian police officers were shot dead in New Brunswick. Two others were injured while conducting a manhunt for a man who had been seen wearing military camouflage clothes and carrying a rifle.

The Japanese Parliament is scheduled to approve an anti-child pornography law before the current Diet ends its session on June 22. However, the law would exclude Anime and Manga.

The powerful Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) sought on Wednesday to ban the popular boy band One Direction from the Philippines in the light of the scandal involving the group, reports Pep.ph.

The Football Federation of Australia considers re-submitting bid to host the 2022 World Cup

British authorities held over the weekend the deportation order for 31-year-old Nigerian migrant Afusat Saliu back to her homeland. She and her two daughters, 2-year-old Rashidat and 4-year-old Bassy, were supposed to be forcibly sent back to the African nation on Thursday evening which she opposed because of fear that genital mutilation would be forced on her daughters.

Officers of the New York Police Department are likely to carry emergency antidotes for heroin overdose so that they can possibly save several lives.

The California Assembly approved on Tuesday a bill that would require porn stars to use condoms when shooting sex scenes despite worries that the legislation would drive the lucrative adult entertainment business out of the state.

Torrentz.eu domain was unsuspended and the torrent search was made available to users. When Torrentz’ legal team stated that the suspension was unlawful, the Polish registrar restored the DNS entries of the domain name, reported by TorrentFreak.

Police in Belgium have launched a nationwide hunt on Sunday, enlisting the help of the general public, to locate a lone gunman responsible for killing four people on Saturday at the Brussels Jewish Museum.

A Sydney court started on Friday the trial of the first female genital mutilation case in New South Wales in which three people were accused of performing circumcision on two girls aged 6 and 7 in 2012.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) led an International BlackShades Malware Takedown in more than 19 countries worldwide to arrest the allegedly more than 100 hackers and to stop the widespread of the “malicious software” called the BlackShades.

A U.S. man was so angry with his wife for serving him the wrong dinner that he beat her to death.

The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde’s request to reopen the case has been put down by the Swedish Supreme Court. Peter’s legal team argued that according to the new EU ruling he cannot be held accountable for infringements done by The Pirate Bay users. According to TorrentFreak, the Supreme Court rejected the application as it did not see any reason.

Australians currently in Thailand, and even those who need to go there, have been strongly warned to exercise all necessary precautions, following the confirmation of a military coup. Travel insurance companies have expressed the policies of travelling Australians in Thailand may be cancelled because of the development.

Some 32 children and one adult were burned alive on Sunday after the bus they were riding erupted in flames. Twenty-four other kids were injured. Charges of aggravated manslaughter will be slapped against the driver and church leader.

Michael Jace, the actors who played a cop from Los Angeles in The Shield, was charged in connection with the fatal shooting of his wife, police said on Tuesday, May 20. The actor apparently called police himself and confessed that he had shot his wife.