Cardinal George Pell, one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican and Australia's most senior Catholic, is charged with historical child sex offences, which he "strenuously denied".

A madrassa teacher is arrested for alleged sex abuse on an 11-year-old boy in Munshiganj’s Gazaria upazila. Another sex offender of the same case is now on the run.

Seven people have been arrested in eastern Pakistan on suspicion of involvement in a child sexual abuse and extortion scandal.