- New research out of Melbourne University and Sydney University shows the sexual objectification of women discourages sympathy for them, and primes men to be more aggressive when rejected.
- Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor living in Paris, was brutally murdered and then set on fire. One of the suspects — a neighbour — had previously been convicted for sexually assaulting a domestic helper who worked for Knoll.
- Following his arrest in Mexico, federal sex trafficking charges have been filed in New York State against Keith Raniere, the secretive leader of the Nxivm “self-help” group, where women were branded by “masters” and coerced into having sex with him.
- Ontario is budgeting to provide free daycare for children starting at 2 1/2, going until kindergarten, in a move that’s expected to save families in the province as much as $17,000 per child.
- William Jaggs, a murderer who now prefers to go by Gillian and has begun cross-dressing, is now out on community medical release after serving only 11 years for tricking his way into the home of a woman he was obsessed with and stabbing her 66 times.