Sources: BBC
French film director Benoît Jacquot is charged with the rapes of actresses Julia Roy and Isild Le Besco between 1998 and 2000, and "rape, sexual assault and violence" committed between 2013 and 2018. 2024-07-4
Austrian-Canadian billionaire businessman Frank Stronach is arrested on sexual assault charges dating from the 1980s to 2023. 2024-06-7
Manish Shah, a general practitioner in the United Kingdom, is given three life sentences at the Old Bailey for 90 sexual assaults on 24 of his female patients. 2020-02-7
The New York Police Department and London's Metropolitan Police Service open investigations into alleged sexual assault allegations against the American film producer Harvey Weinstein. 2017-10-12
The English Environment Agency issues two severe flood warnings where there is a "danger to life" for Somerset in South West England. 2014-02-6
Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall is sentenced to 15 months in jail for sexually abusing girls. 2013-06-17
Nigel Evans, a deputy speaker of the United Kingdom House of Commons, is arrested for allegedly raping two men. 2013-05-4
British "Coronation Street" star William Roache, the world's longest-serving soap actor, is arrested and charged with two counts of raping a 15-year-old girl in 1967. 2013-05-1
English singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers dies at the age of 68. 2013-02-18
Oxfam International says the number of sexual assaults in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has increased "dramatically". 2010-04-15