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| Warnings about hospital sex crimes of UK star Savile ignored - official reports | |  Warnings about Jimmy Savile, the late BBC TV presenter revealed two years ago to have been one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders, who preyed on victims at hospitals where he volunteered, were ignored, official reports said on Thursday. New reports into his activities on Thursday revealed he had abused 60 people at Stoke Mandeville hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympic games, between 1969 and 1992, and despite it being an "open secret" that he was a "lecher," nothing was done. The informal complaints were neither taken seriously nor escalated, said Androulla Johnstone, lead investigator for one of the reports, while the formal one was dropped by the complainant's father due to her serious ill health.
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| Pachauri urged to quit TERI after sex harassment complaint | |  Lawyers and women's rights groups have demanded the resignation of Rajendra Pachauri from his Delhi-based thinktank, after a sexual harassment complaint which led to him quitting as chair of the U.N. panel of climate scientists earlier this week. In a letter to the governing council of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), activists said the thinktank had a responsibility to provide an atmosphere free from sexual harassment and discrimination against women. Too many men in positions of power in India are taking advantage of younger women by sexually harassing them, leading to women dropping out of the workforce, activists said.
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| "Jihadi John" killer from Islamic State beheading videos named by media | |  The "Jihadi John" killer who has featured in several Islamic State beheading videos is Mohammed Emwazi, a Briton from a middle class family who grew up in London and graduated from college with a degree in computer programming, the Washington Post newspaper said. In videos released by Islamic State (IS), the masked, black-clad militant brandishing a knife and speaking with an English accent appears to have carried out the beheadings of hostages including Americans and Britons. The Washington Post said Emwazi was believed to have travelled to Syria around 2012 and to have later joined IS. "His real name, according to friends and others familiar with his case, is Mohammed Emwazi, a Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from college with a degree in computer programming," the Post said.
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| Islamic State snatches 220 from Christian villages - Syria monitoring group | | | By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three-day offensive, a monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said on Thursday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the abductions took place when Islamic State captured 10 villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority near Hasaka, a city mainly held by the Kurds, in the past three days. Islamic State has ruthlessly targeted members of religious minorities, as well as fellow Sunni Muslims who refuse to swear allegiance to the 'caliphate' it has declared in parts of Syria and Iraq. The United States on Wednesday condemned the attacks on Assyrian Christian villages, which it said included the burning of homes and churches and abduction of women, children and the elderly. |
| Arson damages Christian seminary in Jerusalem in suspected hate crime | | | An arson attack damaged a Greek Orthodox seminary near Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday and anti-Christian graffiti in Hebrew at the scene suggested the incident was a hate crime. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said in a statement the fire at the seminary was set deliberately and that "there is no room for such deplorable activity" in the city, which is holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians. Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said in a statement that the fires at the Jerusalem seminary and the mosque near Bethlehem were the work of "Israeli terrorists ... protected by a government that claims exclusivity over this land". |
| South Korean condom stock surges after court says adultery not a crime | |  South Korea's highest court struck down a decades-old law banning adultery, a statute that critics said is anachronistic and infringes on personal freedom, sending shares in the country's biggest condom maker surging. "The law is unconstitutional as it infringes people's right to make their own decisions on sex and secrecy and freedom of their private life, violating the principle banning excessive enforcement under the constitution," said Seo Ki-seok, a Constitutional Court justice, reading an opinion representing five justices. Shares in Unidus Corp, which makes latex products including condoms, soared to the 15 percent daily limit gain after the ruling. Critics have said the law against adultery is outdated in a society where rapid modernisation has frequently clashed with traditionally conservative values.
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