Bogota council introduces women-only seats on buses in Colombian capital to combat high levels of sexual assault and harassment.
A mother who found her seven-year-old son with a makeshift noose around his neck says he got the idea from a popular YouTube video.
Twitter was left giggling after one account shared a photo of Christmas lights on palm trees in Italy - as the lights had a phallic effect.
When an Uber driver picked up a girl in distress she decided to lift her spirits by taking her for a night on the tiles.
Michaela Murch and a 17-year-old male accomplice face sentencing for assaulting teen in prolonged attack
The Indian government bans condom advertisements between 6am and 10pm because they are "indecent" for children.
Chandler Self was leading the women's division of the BMW Dallas Marathon on 10 December when she began to collapse 200 yards from the finish line.
A doctor has penned an article for the BMJ suggesting that the popular children's cartoon Peppa Pig could be placing extra pressure on GPs.
Female North Korean defector reveals her horrific ordeal at the hands of the brutal Kim Jong-un regime.
Clinton Stothard, a 31-year-old paedophile, has been jailed after going on holiday with a 15-year-old girl and her family having convinced them he was a teenager.
Report on stop and search shows "troubling" disparity as one-third of white suspects found with drugs compared to 25% for black people.
The boy who was kept in the trailer told authorities that he hadn't attended school for months.
Mother Mei Rui barred from entering Spirit Airlines flight from Houston to New York after breastfeeding her son on plane during three-hour delay.
Charles Jenkins, the last known living US soldier to have defected to North Korea, has died at the age of 77.
The competition was an initiative to strengthen relationship between married tribal couples in Jharkhand, India.
Relatives of the deceased recognised that the man was not her husband and informed the police.
It is thought that dozens of people have been injured in the blast, which took place near the capital Vienna.
The incident happened on Sunday in Los Angeles when the Palestinian-American child was standing holding a "Dump Trump" placard.
MPs criticise social network after investigation reveals community of "non-contact" and "non-offending" paedophiles.
A plane from Berlin to London was stranded for five hours on 10 December. When it finally took off, it ended up making a U-turn only one hour away from its destination.
The footage was taken from the security camera of a building's lift in Zhengzhou City, capital of the Henan Province in Central China.
"Why would I want to throw $10,000 away on a funeral I'm not even going to?" Australian soldier Frank Scott said.
The woman died on the spot after being hit by the vehicles while attempting to cross a road in Tulse Hill.
In the video, the Santa scolds the little boy while slamming the long wooden staff on the floor as the child continues to cry.
The 50-year-old man has been arrested after the video was shared online by an unidentified witness who secretly recorded the incident.
Officials from the county sheriff's office said that it not known if the woman's body was dumped into the bay or if it had floated there from another location.
Satellite images reveal that tunnel work has been ongoing at the North Korean nuclear test site, indicating an expansion of the site for future nuclear tests.
The couple's son discovered the maggot-infested remains when he attempted to enter the family home through a window.
Demi Pearson, 14, Brandon, 8, and sister Lacie, 7, died in the fire on Jackson Street in Walkden, Salford, with 5 people now arrested in connection with the suspected arson attack.
24-year-old Valerie Curbelo was arrested at Sacramento airport after phone footage allegedly shows her shocking rant during a flight from Portland.
