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Making a remark on the society’s apparent “indifference towards rape” and asking the question “When is rape okay?”, one guy stands on crowded streets with a placard that reads “RAPE… IT’S HER FAULT.”

Reece Burrow Lyons makes a point — that she, for everyone else, is only as beautiful as she convinces them that she is, by being a quieter, smaller and thus, more acceptable version, of herself.

Reportedly, the incident took place in Russia on June 28, while Jeon Gwang-ryeol, a reporter with MBN, a South Korean TV channel, was kissed on his cheek twice by revellers at the game.

In a bid to attract customers, a Turkey restaurant has devised an unusual plan — to put a lion cub behind a glass corridor!

Instagram apologized for removing the post after receiving backlash and said, “this post was removed in error and we are sorry. It has since been reinstated”. 

‘Kodaikanal Still Won’t’ accuses the conglomerate of “environmental racism” because they refuse to apply the same clean-up standards for India as that for Europe.

Curt Johnson, the owner of the play area, a Gorleston beach in Norfolk, England, reportedly said that the trampoline exploded “because of the heat.”

“The messages (the woman got on Facebook) were a mixed collection of support and hate. People (mostly women) were supporting and encouraging whereas mostly men were victim blaming, saying things like my explicitness is the reason why I was harassed.” she said.

Melania Trump made an unannounced visit to a migrant child center in Texas wearing a jacket that had “I really don’t care, do u?” written on the back in white and bold.

TIME and New Yorker’s latest magazine covers that have aimed to represent the situation in the US in the best way they could, has now united people across the world on social media as they call out Trump’s ‘zero tolerance policy’

The Allahabad resident wrote on Facebook about how her 9-year-old little cousin, who is a boy, loves wearing make-up but because of this, ended up being the topic of many jokes in their household.

The female Colombian journalist is not the first to have been at the receiving end of such forms of harassment. Earlier this year, a shirtless man came too close to kiss Bruna Dealtry, a Brazilian reporter, who was just doing her job.

Photographer John Moore’s viral photo shows a 2-year-old girl crying as her mother stood beside her. The young Honduran girl’s mother was being frisked and body-searched (after which she was detained) when he took this picture.

Following the attack on senior Kashmir journalist Shujaat Bukhari and his two PSOs that killed them, several, including Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore, labelled his murder as an ‘attack on the freedom of press’, others called it the “insanity of violence”.

A police complaint was filed, following which the dog’s body was removed and the Public Works Department (PWD) issued a complaint notice to the road construction company, RP Infraventure Pvt. Ltd.

The bizarre comparison BJP MLA Surendra Singh made between sex workers and corrupt bureaucrats left many on social media enraged. While certain people called his statement “sexist and gross”, others, surprisingly, agreed with what he had said.

While the organised protest is gradually garnering support, pictures and videos of farmers spilling milk as part of their strike has left many alarmed on the Internet, especially Twitter. They could have instead distributed food and milk among the poor and the needy, suggested Netizens.

Pakistan Censor Board’s ban on Veere Di Weddng’s generated quite a buzz on the Internet, especially Twitter, where many condemned it. Many others, decided to troll the leading ladies of the film.

According to post put up by the Kolkata Police on their Facebook page, the elderly woman, Yashoda Paul is a patient of amnesia and was being punished by the daughter-in-law for plucking flowers from the garden “without permission.”

Among fans and followers finding the video adorable and Jacqueline Fernandez beautiful, many Instagram users took to commenting that both her and Salman Khan, as responsible and well-known personalities, should have known better than “violating a child’s consent”.

As the Nipah virus outbreak struck again after 17 years in India, along with a general sense of panic, social media also shared their heartfelt tributes for Lini Puthussery, a nursing assistant, who died battling the infection while she was attending to three victims.

As international outrage at the violence flowed, Ministry of Health in Gaza declared an eight-month-old baby girl, who died after tear-gas inhalation, as the face of the ‘Gaza carnage’.

Right from raising awareness about rape culture in the country to his monologues on aborting fictional girl child, RJ Naved has been in news for propagating good causes. However, things took a turn for the worse when he pranked a pet owner whose dog had recently gone missing,

The video showing a railway vendor coming out of a train’s toilet with tea/coffee cans is said to have been recorded in December last year inside Chennai Central-Hyderabad Charminar Express at Secunderabad railway station, according to reports.

The incident of some elderly men beating up a couple in Kolkata for ‘standing too close’ resulted in a furious deluge on social media, especially Twitter, with many calling out the hypocrisy and ‘moral policing’ behaviour of society.