50-yr-old gets RI for rape, abduction in Delhi

India's national capital New Delhi reports regularly rape of minor girl and often accused gets away with either light punishment  or get acquitted for for lack of circumstantial and clinching medical evidence.""While keeping the girl confined in a room, on one hand, the...

New UK law to criminalise men who pay for sex with trafficked women

The UK government has unveiled new laws for cracking down on men who pay for sex. The new laws will apply specifically to trafficked women, or women who are being controlled and pay money to a pimp."New prostitution laws to be set out today will mean a plea of ignorance is no...

Death penalty for cyber terror in Pakistan

"Causing death through “cyber terrorism” will be punishable by death in Pakistan, according to a decree issued by President Asif Ali Zardari yesterday. The Prevention of Electronic Crimes law will be applicable to anyone who commits a crime detrimental to national...

domestic helps gets death for murder

" A domestic help was on Tuesday awarded death penalty by a Delhi court for slitting the throat of a four-year-old “defenceless” son of his employer after the victim and his sister tried to resist his attempt to rape their elder sibling. Describing the act of...

Clergyman apologises over call to tattoo gay people

An Anglican clergyman who advocated that homosexuals be tattooed with labels calling them sodomites has apologized for his remarks. Such language is extreemly unusual in the Church of England."A Church of England clergyman who wrote that gay men should be forced to have...

Rastas can use cannabis, Italian court rules

"Rastafarians have always regarded Ethiopia as the promised land, but Italy could rank a close second after its Supreme Court ruled that smoking or possessing cannabis is not a criminal offence but a religious act when the person doing it is a Rastafarian. ...

US mother convicted of sex with underage Australian boy

An American woman from the Virginia flew halfway around the world  to meet her teenage boy friend. She had  sex with a 15 year old boy and not been charged in an Australian court. Barbara Case, 33 met her teenage lover on internet.  She was arrested after the...

Worried About Your Brain? Take Some Shakespeare

To stimulate your brain and fire it up, try Shakespeare, or so a study proves."n Shakespeare what is apparently a small matter is actually often a big deal made seemingly small only because it is happening at pace. The moment of a decision in Macbeth, of a death in Lear: they...