A doctor found by a tribunal to have raped a young woman at his home avoided being struck off over what the panel described as a "one-off" attack. Dr Aloaye Foy-Yamah, then a consultant at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, instead had his medical licence suspended for 12 months for attacking the woman.

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said officers arrested a man suspected of at least nine sexual assaults and four robberies, including a recent attack on Figueroa Street.

ICE agents in the Boston area have arrested previously deported fentanyl migrant traffickers, a child rape convict and several migrants wanted for murder.

Some MLAs are considering leaving elected politics over the abuse they and their families face, BBC News NI understands.

Gisèle Pelicot, who became a symbol of the fight against sexual violence during the drugging-and-rape trial that riveted France last year and turned her into a global icon, will publish her memoir next year.

A jury came back with a split verdict Wednesday night in an East Chicago rape trial – acquitting a New Jersey man of rape, but convicting him of his lower charge, sexual battery.

A man who had travelled from the United Arab Emirates to the UK to rape and sexually abuse a young teenage girl has been jailed. Hamdan Alshamsi, 21, was in contact with the girl online and booked a hotel in Brighton when he arrived.

The top court in Spain's Catalonia region on Friday overturned Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves' rape conviction, saying the case against him had inconsistencies and contradictions. The 41-year-old defender was convicted last year of raping a woman in the restroom of a Barcelona nightclub in 2022 and sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison.

Three USPS workers in NYC are accused of dragging an unconcious colleague into a mail truck, where one allegedly tried to rape her.