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A Maldivian court quashed a public flogging sentence of a 15-year-old girl convicted for having premarital sex. The high court issued a statement on Wednesday saying that the girl, whose step-father is on trial for raping her, had been wrongly convicted by a juvenile court of having pre-marital sex with another man. The February conviction of the girl sparked international outrage and focused attention on treatment of women in Maldives, which is a favourite holiday destination.

Mumbai, the financial capital of India in for some horror as news came of three among a group of five men raping a 22-year-old photographer. Reports said that three men took turn to rape the girl, after her male colleague was bashed up at an abandoned mill compound. The incident happened on Thursday evening close to the railway tracks in the Mahalaxmi area in the city.

The Australian Labor Party, allegedly, draws campaign budget through capitalizing on gay marriage

There is now a list of drug manufacturers and dealers in New Zealand engaged in the production of synthetic recreational drugs. The list is dominated by adult shops, while the names of some of them such as Pillz & Thrillz sound like their specialty is getting their customers high.

Mohammed Sanoussi, one of the 14 convicted Skaf gang rapists, may be on his way out of jail if the State Parole Authority approves his plead for release after serving 13 years in Long Bay Jail in Sydney.

Australian Election 2013 Recap: The Brisbane debate reveals a talkative Kevin Rudd and Touch Tony Abbott

The U.S. government, on Tuesday, condemned the military-backed interim government in Egypt for the detention of Mohammed Badie, the 70-year-old spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood terming it “certainly not the standard that the Egyptian people expect of their government.”

It is an epic war and will be studied for generations - media for freedom versus governments for security – the Snowden saga continues. On Tuesday, even as David Miranda sued Britain over his detention, UK defended its action saying that the government and the police have a duty to protect the public and national security.

Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, who recently quit as Egypt's interim vice president and left the country in the face of deadly crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood supporters by military-led government, will face charges for "breaching national trust".

A spy was dismissed from his agency after confessing his spy identity to his fiancée.

British authorities have banned 23-year-old Robert Newman of Devizes, Wilts, from all the farms in the country because of his perversion of having sex with a goat.

A man transporting pot was caught after a police driver trailing a semi-truck was able to smell an odour emanating from the vehicle.

The ongoing trial of the two former Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) cadets for filming having sex with a female cadet has been reduced to a he said, she said type of argument.

Aussie student, Cris Lane, was gunned down “For the fun of it”, says one suspect

Sixty-nine year-old Age Kolaj and 72-year-old June Norman are studies in contrast. Both were featured in newspaper reports on the same day, Aug 19, 2013, but for different deeds.

Imam Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti who was arrested for falsely implicating Rimsha Masih, a 14-year old mentally-challenged Christian girl of burning pages of the Quran in Aug 2012 has been acquitted by a trial court on Saturday for lack of evidence.

If all goes well for him, ousted Egyptian autocrat, Hosni Mubarak could walk free from prison by the end of the week. This after an Egyptian court trying the former president cleared him of corruption charges on Monday.

Temperaments in Russia's LGBT community as well as from those around the world, initially exuberant, have gotten confused after two female Russian athletes denied their kiss meant anything to support the global gay movement and defy their country's stiff rules on gay propaganda.

Voting for the Australian Election 2013 starts today for early voters

In a reflection of the times we live in and our dependency on social media, lawyers in the UK have warned that messages emanating from twitter and other online social networks may be considered during legal trials. The decision to use online material comes against a slew of cases that saw defendants in an act of exhibitionism on social media about their crime.

New Zealand same-sex marriage takes effect Monday, Aussie gay couple race with New Zealand Gay Couples to be the very first same-sex couple married in New Zealand

No barebacking. A California federal judge upheld on Friday a voter-approved rule in Los Angeles Country that mandates the wearing of a condom by porn actors when filming sex scenes.

A photo scandal is threatening the reign of newly crowned Miss Teen USA 2013 Cassidy Wolf. The 19-year-old graduate of Great Oak High School in Temecula is said to have nude photos which could circulate in the Internet.

Two disturbing videos surfaced over the weekend, showing attacks on elderly men. The first victim was an 80-year-old Sikh who was beaten by a drunk teenage girl in Britain.

The Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust (MSSAT), a support group, urged New Zealand parents to believe their sons if their male kids complain of sexual abuse.

Rockefeller Impostor, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, was given 25 years serving time for murder of John Sohus

With reputations tarnished along with the risk of losing a nation’s trust, people who are associated with Essendon Football Club want nothing more than a swift resolution of the scandal brought about by the ASADA report.

A newborn baby boy in the U.S.' central Pennsylvania is lucky to still be alive today after receiving a dose of painkillers that was meant for his mum who underwent C-section in order to give birth to him.

Filipino actor Cesar Montano vehemently denied on Tuesday the marital rape charge filed on Monday by his estranged wife Sunshine Cruz.