Syrians are covering one eye in photos to support #SolidaritywithKarim after baby lost one eye in artillery attack on eastern Ghouta by Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Cardinal Bernard Law, named by the Boston Globe's Spotlight investigation into clerical child sex abuse in Boston Archdiocese, fled to Rome and escaped prison.
Crocodile lizard, horseshoe mountain bat and snail-eating turtle among 150 new species discovered in Greater Mekong by WWF and under threat by poachers and illegal wildlife trade.
Parlaympian star Oscar Pistorius files papers at South Africa's Constitutional Court to appeal increased murder sentence, which Supreme Court doubled from six to 13 years.
Anger among University of Hartford students and civil rights activists as Brianna Brochu avoids hate crime charge for 'poisoning' black roommate Jazzy Rowe.
Storm Kai-tak pounds Philippines, leaves over 30 dead and dozens missing in island province of Biliran after triggering severe flooding and landslides.
Scotland houses 2,000 Syrian refugees three years ahead of schedule through the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces.
Fatal balcony collapse in Melbourne, Australia, kills two women including Cheryl Taylor and injures 17 others as people gathered for office Christmas photo.
Australian commission publishes report that finds "catastrophic failures" by Catholic Church to address child sex abuse allegations and calls on Vatican to overhaul celibacy rule.
Man has acid hurled in his face in shocking doorstep attack in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Police recently revealed that UK has one of highest rates of acid attacks in the world.
'Ridiculous' Miss France contest organisers Sylvie Tellier and Geneviève de Fontenay mocked for dedicating beauty pageant to denouncing violence against women.
El Salvador upholds 30-year aggravated homicide sentence of Teodora del Carmen Vásquez in stillbirth case. El Salvador has one of most draconian abortion laws in the world.
