Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office.
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Associated PressA doctor accused of sexual abuse by more than 200 former patients is indicted on rape charges
A grand jury in Massachusetts has indicted a doctor who is accused of sexually assaulting more than 200 former patients over a period of more than a decade. The patients sued Dr. Derrick Todd, who has been accused of performing unnecessary pelvic floor therapy, breast examinations, testicular examinations and other unwarranted procedures on patients dating back to 2010. The Middlesex District Attorney's Office said in a statement Thursday that Todd was indicted earlier that day for “two counts of rape alleging the sexual assault of two women.”
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She was searching online for a recipe. She found a video of herself engaged in a sexual act
WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone who has.Natalie Brown sat down one day to search the Food Network for a recipe. But another website starting with "F" popped up immediately — Fetlife, a Canadian social networking site for people interested in fetishism — and on it, she found a video she didn't know existed of herself engaged in a sexual act. "I was so humiliated. I felt stupid, I felt embarrassed, I fel
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A 13-year-old student in New Jersey fathered a child with his teacher, 34, authorities allege
Laura Caron, 34, a former college basketball star, was arrested Wednesday and charged with abusing a student from the age of 11 years old while they lived with her at her home in Cape May, NJ
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Bird feathers, blood found in both engines of crashed jet in South Korea, source says
Seoul (Reuters) -Investigators found bird feathers and blood in both engines of the Jeju Air jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing 179 people, a person familiar with the probe told Reuters on Friday. The Boeing 737-800 plane, which departed from the Thai capital Bangkok for Muan county in southwestern South Korea, belly-landed and overshot the regional airport's runway, bursting into flames after hitting an embankment. Only two crew members at the tail end of the plane survived the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil.
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Teacher who gave birth to 13-year-old student’s baby started molesting him when he was 11, court docs allege
The Independent has now seen the criminal complaint detailing the full extent of the horrific child sex abuse allegations
- The Independent
Australian tourist jailed for threatening to crash flight at Changi airport
Man repeatedly threatened to crash flight after being denied entry to Southeast Asian nations
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Kelly Osbourne calls out celebrities using LA fires as photo op after Meghan and Harry labeled ‘disaster tourists’
‘No one asked you to come out and give hugs,’ reality star argued
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South Korean president sits silently through 10 hours of questioning
Yoon Suk Yeol ‘simply refused to speak’
- The Telegraph
Marcus Rashford believed to have appeared in photo with rapper who murdered schoolboy
Marcus Rashford is believed to have appeared in photograph with a rapper whose songs include boasts about his murder of a schoolboy.
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We were living the American dream – British expats lose business in LA wildfires
Mandy and Raymond Church have spent the last 40 years building their plumbing business which has been lost in the wildfires.
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Man jailed for choking grandmother when she refused to give him money; Woman openly vapes on Jetstar flight from Singapore to Bangkok: Singapore live news
Yahoo Singapore is featuring a curated selection of some of the biggest, most important, and fascinating news that's making waves online.
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Stepdad Accused of Repeatedly Throwing Boy, 2, into Pool to Teach Swimming Charged with Murder After Drowning
A 6-year-old girl allegedly told police Dakota Hays would throw the 2-year-old into the water and that “she would have to go retrieve him from the bottom of the pool"
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Taylor Swift makes 'generous' donations to LA charities amid 'devastating heartbreak'
Taylor Swift has made "generous" donations to ten different organizations who are helping families in the wake of the Los Angeles fires. Habitat for Humanity for Greater Los Angeles was among those whom Taylor donated to, and they confirmed to HELLO! that "she made a generous donation".
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Mom took her son to jail to turn himself in on murder charges. Then cops arrested her too
The Richland County sheriff in South Carolina has vowed to hold parents criminally responsible
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Texas sheriff's deputy killed, K-9 injured after intensive search in Houston
On Wednesday, a man fatally shot a Texas sheriff's deputy Wednesday at a shopping plaza in Houston and then evaded officers for hours before shooting a K-9 that helped find him hiding under trash in a dumpster.
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Pair who took own lives in Polmont ‘given death sentence’, families’ lawyer says
A sheriff has ruled the deaths of Katie Allan, 21, and William Brown, 16, could have been avoided.
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Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as police tried to force their surrender?
South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die underground as authorities attempted to force them to surrender during a monthslong standoff. The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food supplies for a period of time to the miners working illegally in the mine's tunnels. The tactic was apparently meant to force them out but instead caused dozens to die of starvation or dehydration, according to groups representing the miners.
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Taiwan’s first execution in five years sparks outcry: ‘Shocking and cruel’
Amnesty International urges Taiwan’s government to immediately halt any plans to carry out further executions
- People
Woman Who Died on Air France Flight Was Member of Kansas Air National Guard, Police Say
Massachusetts State Police said the woman’s death appeared to result “from a medical episode during the flight”
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Man gets 2 years in US prison for aiding pushy effort to get ex-official to return to China
A man convicted in the first trial highlighting U.S. claims that China harasses its critics overseas was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for his role in a creepy campaign to get a former official to return to his homeland. Zhu Yong, a Chinese retiree who faces likely deportation from the U.S. after his prison term, expressed regret while suggesting he didn't initially think through the implications of what he was doing. The target, a former Chinese city official named Xu Jin, was subjected to subtle and overt pressure to go back to China, where he and his wife have been accused of bribery, according to testimony.