British comedian Russell Brand has been charged with rape and assault by police in the U.K. The 50-year-old actor, known for his work in R-rated comedies including “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Get Him to the Greek,” was charged with single counts of rape, indecent assault, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault, the Metropolitan…
A PhD student earlier fined HK$5,000 (US$643) for splashing semen onto a woman’s buttocks has left Hong Kong before prosecutors could apply for a stricter penalty. Lai Changwei, 26, failed to appear at Thursday’s West Kowloon Court hearing after the Department of Justice sought to review his sentence on the basis it was manifestly inadequate….
A banker accused of indecently assaulting a female subordinate has been acquitted after a Hong Kong magistrate expressed doubts about the woman’s testimony and questioned her agenda of pursuing legal action “at all costs”. Magistrate Minnie Wat Lai-man said on Tuesday that the court should give defendant Alan Lai King-lun, 54, the benefit of the…
A noodle shop owner in China who gave free food to travellers who intervened after a car accident has discovered that the victim they helped was his son. On March 7, a woman and her friend were driving in Guangdong province, southeastern China, when they came across a car accident. A white sedan was diagonally…
Multiple celebrities were named as defendants in an amended complaint against celebrity Sean “Diddy” Combs filed on Friday. The filing by Ashley Parham and two unnamed plaintiffs lists over a dozen defendants, including NFL player Odell Beckham Jr. and comedian Druski. Beckham and Druski responded to the allegations and denied any wrongdoing on social media….
A three-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered by her father was loved by his family but that still could not have saved her from being abused by him, her mother told a Hong Kong court on Tuesday, describing the accused as a “dangerous man”. Helen Leung said she and her daughter’s father, Lau Kai-ping, had…
A former primary school principal has been jailed for six months in Hong Kong for scamming the institution out of HK$270,000 (US$34,715) by lying about missing salary payments and withdrawing funds without authorisation. Chen Yi-hsin, former head of the Yan Chai Hospital Chiu Tsang Hok Wan Primary School in Tsing Yi, pleaded guilty to four…
A Hong Kong man suspected of killing his three-year-old daughter by violently shaking her allegedly abused her more than 20 times during the two months they lived together. This included by holding her upside down so her head struck the floor and dousing her with cold water in the shower. The High Court on Wednesday…
A Hong Kong superintendent molested and assaulted a woman four times over a seven-month period last year, including inside a police station on three occasions, a court heard on Tuesday. Defendant Chan Kin-yee, 42, appeared in Sha Tin Court on Tuesday morning to face a charge of indecent assault and three counts of common assault….
Judge Tanya Chutkan has said that she doesn’t believe she can impose a general restraining order on Elon Musk and his budget-cutting Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over the alleged firing of thousands of federal employees. Why It Matters Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has vowed to cut up to $2 trillion a year from…