US President Barack Obama was briefed on Friday by US Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan on a sex scandal in Colombia that tarnished the elite protection agency's image, a senior US official said.

The head of Australia's prestigious military training college in Canberra on Saturday described the alleged rape of a civilian woman by a cadet as 'completely abhorrent'.

A 23-year-old army cadet has

One of the world's most prominent public figures and formerly a frontrunner for the French presidency, disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been tainted by a series of sex scandals.

A wave of clerical sex abuse scandals have cost the Catholic Church over two billion dollars (1.5 billion euros) but the real price is the blow to its reputation, two US experts said on Wednesday.

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The Kozhikode ice cream parlour sex case which dates back to the early 1990s led to an opposition walkout Thursday in the Kerala Assembly. The alleged sex racket involved an ice cream parlour in Kozhikode as its base.

US congressman Anthony Weiner announced his resignation at a New York press conference on Thursday, after being embroiled for weeks in a sex scandal linked to his lewd online exchanges with women.

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The case against the controversial godman Swami Nithyananda still waits to be committed to trial after the CID filed the chargesheet in November 2010.

The delay is due to case files being shuffled b

Delhi police has arrested a 23-year-old JNU student allegedly involved in the sex scandal that rocked the University early this year.

Janardan Kumar, originally from Gaya in Bihar, is allegedly invo

A Vietnamese high school principal was sentenced to nine years in prison for having sex with eight schoolgirls in a high-profile sex scandal, the presiding judge said on Friday.

Rome: The fate of Italy's beleaguered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, facing trial over sex scandal, will be decided by three female judges.

Milan-based Judge Cristina Di Censo on Tuesday granted p