All Stories: abuse

NEW YORK: "Saturday Night Live" skit about a male student having sex with his female high school teacher painted the relationship as every teen boy's dream, but drew a firestorm of criticism on social media.

JEDDAH: Saudi authorities said on Tuesday they are taking legal action against two police officers accused of sexually assaulting a pair of Iranian male pilgrims, an incident which Tehran protested.

SPAIN: Spain's bishops conference on Thursday defended the right of priests to maintain the secrecy of the confessional booth even in cases of serious crimes such as the sexual abuse of children.

MADRID: A Spanish court has dropped charges against nine out of ten Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing an altar boy, court papers showed Monday, in a case in which Pope Francis intervened.

WASHINGTON: witter is boosting safeguards to prevent its network being used for harassment and abuse, it said on Tuesday.

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Umar said on Tuesday that if migrating from India to Pakistan and being called a ‘Mohajir’ is a verbal abuse, he accepts it with pride, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Internet abuse of women in Pakistan is triggering real world violence against them, but large social media companies, such as Facebook and Twitter, are moving too slowly to stop it, internet rights group Bytes for All said.

LOS ANGELES: A 31-year-old man on Wednesday withdrew a high-profile lawsuit accusing "X-Men" director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him when he was an aspiring teen actor.