New York -
UNICEF deputy director Justin Forsyth on Thursday resigned from the UN children's agency following complaints of inappropriate behavior towards female staff in his previous post as head of British charity Save The Children.
New York -
The UN children's agency said Wednesday it was unaware that its deputy director faced complaints of inappropriate behavior toward female staff before hiring him two years ago.
Melbourne -
Academy award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush Friday filed defamation proceedings against a News Corp newspaper in Australia over a story claiming he engaged in "inappropriate behaviour" at a Sydney theatre.
Washington -
Hundreds of female employees at two well-known US jewelers are alleging that company leaders fostered a culture of discrimination and frequent sexual harassment, The Washington Post reported Monday.
There are likely few people that are unaware that the U.S. has a gun problem, though finding a solution that all will agree with proves to be more difficult.
Sacramento -
Academy Award-winner Halle Berry is celebrating after California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law Tuesday that protects the children of celebrities from paparazzi.
Mogadishu -
Mohamed Abdi Kahin, best known as Boosh, a journalist who works for Royal Television 24 and a new website called (Ramaas), was badly beaten by Somaliland police without obvious reason.
Success is not always so enjoyable. In the case of overnight singing sensation Susan Boyle on a UK TV show, and then on U-tube, all the oohs and ahs have now become a bit too critical.
One would assume this 24 year old Romanian well digger had some sort of mental issues. Not so according to investigators, who have charged him with making 6,442 profane calls to the local 112 emergency phone lines.
Ali Tahmourpour alleges that the RCMP harassed him while he was a cadet over his Muslim beliefs. The alleged harassment began when Tahmourpour asked to wear a pendant containing passages from the Qur'a.
