Frédéric Mitterrand, the French culture minister facing pressure to resign over a book in which he describes paying for "boys" in Thailand, has threatened to take legal action over what he describes as a "campaign of insensitive calumny".
Swiss police say they had cracked the biggest Internet paedophile ring found in the country, taking apart a network spanning scores of countries. The majority of those involved were from the US and Poland, as well as a number of Swiss cases.
In this edition: complaints from the residents of Mauritania’s slums and a children's charity in Morocco calls for action against child abuse, as reported paedophilia cases are on the rise.
In a high-profile raid broadcast live on TV, French police recaptured a cult leader convicted of child abuse days after he escaped from a Reunion Island jail in a helicopter.
The family of a 12-year-old boy who was twice kidnapped by cult leader and convicted paedophile, Juliano Verbard, has expressed dismay over Verbard’s escape from a Reunion jail Monday and fear for the boy's security.
An inquiry by Mexican police into a child porn network led to the arrest of seven people Wednesday, including a Catholic priest. The network is thought to have distributed over 100,000 pictures and videos of children from around the world.
Fabrice Burgaud, an examining magistrate from 1999 to 2002, faces a disciplinary panel for his role in the wrongful imprisonment of 13 suspects in a paedophilia scandal that has turned into a political issue for French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
During a mass in Sydney, Pope Benedict XVI issued a much-awaited full, public apology for the sexual abuses of children by some Catholic priests in Australia, calling for those responsible to be "brought to justice".
Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable, three of the biggest US Internet providers, have agreed to block access to sites and discussion groups featuring child porn in an agreement that covers the entire United States.
Two men accused of plotting to kidnap, rape and torture a little girl and boasting of their plans on the Internet went on trial in northern France Thursday. (Report: E. Irvine)
