India's cabinet has approved harsher punishments for rapists, including the death penalty, after a brutal gang-rape in New Delhi that sparked national outrage.

A US Catholic cardinal stripped of his duties said Friday he didn't know how to handle sex abuse claims, as he had not learned about it at college -- drawing withering criticism from victims.

The archbishop of Los Angeles stripped his predecessor of all church duties as he released files on more than 100 clerics, as required under a 2007 lawsuit deal over alleged sex abuse.

The archbishop of Los Angeles stripped his predecessor of all church duties as he released files on more than 100 clerics, as required under a 2007 lawsuit deal over alleged sex abuse.

French authorities on Wednesday charged a 32-year-old British man with the brutal killing of a mother of three in what they believe was an attempted sexual assault that went wrong.

Verdicts for five men accused of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus would be handed down "very soon," a defence lawyer said Tuesday, as an application to relocate the trial failed.

A lawyer for two defendants accused of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus said Tuesday he would file a petition challenging an order preventing the media from reporting on the trial.

India's Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday an application to move the trial of five men accused of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi.

The father of an Indian student who died after being gang-raped on a bus has called for changes in the law to allow a teenage suspect to be tried as an adult, local media reported on Tuesday.

The father of an Indian student who died after being gang-raped on a bus has called for changes in the law to allow a teenage suspect to be tried as an adult, local media reported.

A court on Monday ruled that the sixth suspect in last month's deadly gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi would be tried as a juvenile, meaning he will face a maximum prison term of three years.

Sixteen-year-old Seenu was walking to her grandmother's house along a quiet street in northern India when a group of men dragged her into a car, took her to a secluded field and raped her in turns.

Gun owners should roam the streets at night and use their weapons to prevent crimes against women, Delhi's lieutenant governor has said in the wake of the brutal gang rape and murder of a student in the capital, according to a report.

Newcastle striker Nile Ranger was bailed on Friday after being arrested on suspicion of rape.

Nepalese police made a series of arrests Friday after campaigners who have been staging a month-long anti-rape protest defied a ban on entering an area close to the prime minister's residence.

India's president said Friday it was time for the country to "reset its moral compass" in the wake of the savage gang rape and murder of a student last month that ignited nationwide protests.

A gripping documentary about a wealthy, young man sentenced to death for the rape and murder of two sisters has catalysed a movement to expose wrongful convictions in the Philippines.

A Republican state lawmaker in New Mexico has proposed a bill outlawing abortion in cases of rape, arguing that to conduct a termination would amount to "tampering with evidence" of a crime.

Disgraced former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn came face-to-face with a call girl on Thursday in the latest stage of a probe into charges that he procured prostitutes for sex parties.

Women's rights in Morocco are poised to make a breakthrough with the probable scrapping of a law allowing rapists of minors to avoid jail by marrying them, but the road to gender equality remains long.