Sources: Rolling Stone
K-pop singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young receives a six-year prison term and former boy band member Choi Jong-hoon is sentenced to a five-year term for having sex with a woman who was unable to consent, as well as other sex crimes including filming women without consent. 2019-11-29
Canadian academic William Schabas resigns as the head of a United Nations committee investigating alleged Israeli war crimes in an offensive in the Gaza Strip during 2014 due to Israel alleging bias due to consultancy work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organisation. 2015-02-2
Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram gunmen have been released. 2014-06-1
Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun have been kidnapped by gunmen in Cameroon. 2014-04-5
English singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers dies at the age of 68. 2013-02-18
Voters in the Canadian province of Alberta go to the polls for a general election with the incumbent Progressive Conservatives being reelected. 2012-04-23
More than 100 students are arrested at a protest in the Canadian city of Montreal, Quebec. 2012-03-15
An out-of-control forest fire near the Canadian town of Fort McMurray in Alberta causes the closure of Highway 63. 2011-09-25
United States nurse William Francis Melchert-Dinkel is convicted of aiding the suicides of an English man and Canadian woman. 2011-03-15
Former British soldier turned singer-songwriter James Blunt claims that he stopped what he believed would be World War III by disobeying a direct order for his troops to attack Russian soldiers given by American General Wesley Clark while he was in Kosovo with NATO in 1999. 2010-11-14