The bloody brawl between rival biker gangs in southern U.S. state of Texas made headlines over the weekend, with nine deaths and 18 injuries. However, as the deadly incident points inevitably to rampant gang violence, one cannot ignore the underlying social problem that is dividing and overwhelming communities in the United States -- gun violence.
A group of 15 armed men burst into a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before dawn and freed their injured ringleader, local media reported Monday.
A Chinese court Friday sentenced former mining tycoon Liu Han to death.
The Indian Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on Tuesday the plea of one of the six accused in the horrifying gang rape case last month for shifting the trial to a place outside Delhi, because of public anger in the Indian capital, according to official sources.
A 17-year-old Indian girl studying in class XI of a prominent south Delhi school was allegedly raped by two men at a New Year's party in a middle class residential zone in the Indian capital, local daily Times of India reported on Wednesday.
The Indian capital on Monday is bracing for more protests against the recent gang rape of a 23-year- old medical student who succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in Singapore in the wee hours last Saturday.
India's nodal medical body, the Indian Medical Association (IMA), has reportedly questioned the government's motive behind its decision to shift the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim to a hospital in Singapore Thursday, where she died in the wee hours of Saturday.
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