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PARIS: France's upper house of parliament on Tuesday scrapped a law punishing clients of prostitutes and made soliciting an offence, as the country wrestles with how to legislate the world's oldest profession.

One of history’s oldest unsolved mysteries is the identity of Jack the Ripper, the infamous serial killer who stalked and murdered at least five women in London’s East End in 1888.

SAINT PETERSBURG: A fine, prison... or a shotgun wedding: one Russian lawmaker has come up with a novel proposal to punish men caught paying for sex.

LONDON: Jack the Ripper, a serial killer who terrorized London in the 1880s, has finally been identified from DNA evidence from the blood-soaked shawl of one of his victims, according to a new book.