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Even well-known people have often blamed victims for sexual assaults, sparking widespread outrage.

Turkish military faces its deadliest day in Operation Olive Branch as seven soldiers die during clashes with YPG Kurdish militia in Syria's Afrin region.

A Russian Sukhoi-25 ground-attack aircraft has been shot down in Syria's north-western province of Idlib.

US President Donald Trump has tweeted that he believes the Nunes memo has "totally vindicated" him.

"Irony is dead," one Twitter user wrote.

Russia allegedly has a nuclear doomsday missile that would be six times more deadly than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

"Yo memo so lame, even Wikileaks wouldn't leak it," Beau Willimon, the creator of Netflix's House of Cards, tweeted.

In his annual budget, India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled an ambitious healthcare scheme to cover 500 million beneficiaries.

BAFTA have formally expelled Weinstein from the academy as the producer is investigated by police in the UK and US over allegations of rape and assault,

The Nunes Memo has been released by the House Intelligence Committee alleging abuse of power by the FBI over the investigation into collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Germany has granted asylum to four Turkish soldiers, one of whom is accused of being a leading figure in the failed July 2016 military coup.

Johannesburg woman speaks of horror of witnessing family dog being killed by African rock python in bedroom.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says air force could use civilian airport on Kurile Islands, claimed by both Russia and Japan.

Cheerleaders performed their version of the Ghoomar dance at an NBA match in Miami.

The UN migration agency says that 90 people are feared drowned after a smuggler's boat carrying mostly Pakistani migrants capsized off Libya's coast.

Maldives' Supreme Court cleared former president Mohamed Nasheed of all charges.

The student council at Wayland High School in Massachusettes chose Cool Runnings as this year's all-school movie, but it was cancelled due to "racially insensitive" characters.

South Carolina woman burnt as "salon-grade hair dryer" turns into a flame-thrower in her bathroom.

Five people have been killed after two military helicopters collided in the south of France, local media report.

Fresh from the controversy after posting a video on YouTube showing a dead body in a Japanese 'suicide forest' Logan Paul saw his life flash before his eyes while skydiving.

American officials suspect the Syrian regime has found a way to develop a new chemical weapon and could have kept it hidden in secret locations.

Theresa May and her husband Philip were both warmly received throughout their three-day tour of China.

North Korean foreign minister warns Washington is "intentionally" destabilising the Korean peninsula to jeopardise improving inter-Korea relations.

The video that went viral shows a woman and a man performing on a pavement while passers-by watched.

Our daughters and granddaughters must live in a safer and more equal world.

The 68-year-old nuclear physicist was undergoing treatment for depression in the past several months.

Ayesha Tariq, 19, said she was too "ashamed" to tell her family about her pregnancy. Her baby was found dead in a shoebox.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been accused of urging for the chairman of France's public radio to lose his jobs to help end rumours the two had had an affair.

Women arrested in Iran for staging anti-hijab #whitewednesday protests in Tehran.