After years of investigations and hearings, the sheer scale of child sexual abuse within the Australian Catholic Church has been revealed.
Hungary was mourning on Sunday (Jan 22) 16 people killed after a coach bringing Hungarian teenagers home from a skiing trip crashed and burst into flames in Italy.
South Korean gender equality minister regretted that the Seoul-Tokyo agreement on Japan's wartime sex slaves has gone undervalued among the local public, particularly in terms of the Japanese government's donation of a huge fund for the women.
The death toll from Tuesday's explosion at a fireworks market in central Mexico rose to 35 on Thursday, as two of those hospitalized succumbed to their injuries.
The National Police Agency intends to conduct research on 10,000 households with mainly junior and senior high school students as the selfies (see below) of people in this age group are being used as online child pornography in a rapidly increasing number of cases, sources said.
Six patients have been killed in a fire that broke out at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor Baru.
Cameroonian President Paul Biya on Saturday decreed Oct. 24 will be a national mourning day for the victims of Friday's train derailment accident, which left more than 70 people killed.
About 1,000 Chinese people including Vice Premier Liu Yandong on Sunday gathered at a bell-tolling ceremony in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the September 18 Incident.
Monday's outdoor funeral for a Muslim imam and his associate shot dead over the weekend in New York City, the largest city in the United States, drew about 1,000 mourners near a mosque in Queens Borough.
Malaysia Airlines has settled damages with the relatives of most victims of the MH17 crash, the lawyer representing the victims, Veeru Mewa, says.
Tributes poured in as Bangladesh Monday held a state ceremony to pay homage to the victims and their families of an attack at a restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan.
With all the national flags at government and semi-government offices and foreign missions down at half-mast, Bangladesh is mourning on Sunday the deaths of victims of the country's first-ever hostage crisis involving militants.
Gunmen killed 20 foreigners by slitting throats soon after they stormed a Spanish restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, a spokesman of the Bangladesh Army said on Saturday.
No Chinese national has been found among the victims of the Florida nightclub mass shooting so far, the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston said Sunday.
A prestigious Indian hospital said on Monday it was duped by traffickers into removing the kidneys of victims believing they were relatives of needy patients, after five people were arrested for the crime.
Mitsubishi Materials Corp, one of dozens of Japanese companies that used Chinese forced labor during World War II, reached a settlement covering thousands of victims on Wednesday that includes compensation and an apology.
A group representing Korean victims of the US atomic bombings of Japan protested on Thursday that their suffering was being neglected ahead of President Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima.
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