News DeskDecember 28, 2011 07:00

True to the dictionary definition, GlobalPost's Top 5 Most Shocking Stories of 2011 offers intense takes on unexpected stories.

Canada 'honor killings' on trial

Sandro ContentaDecember 21, 2011 07:26

TORONTO — The alleged “honor killing” of three teenage daughters by their Afghan-born parents has shocked a country that prizes multiculturalism.

British royal succession laws to change

News DeskOctober 28, 2011 06:17

British Prime Minister David Cameron said the old succession laws were "at odds with the modern countries that we have become."

News DeskSeptember 28, 2011 17:08

Sexual assault conviction for Canadian who sabotaged condoms

The man poked holes in his girlfriend’s condoms with a pin in a furtive attempt to get her pregnant.

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A man in Novia Scotia has been convicted of sexual assault after poking holes in his girlfriend’s condoms with a pin in a furtive attempt to get her pregnant.

Their relationship was on the rocks, and the man, Craig Jaret Hutchinson, now 41, thought a pregnancy might save the relationship, CBC reports.

GlobalPost's top 5 most shocking stories of 2011

Canada 'honor killings' on trial

British royal succession laws to change

Sexual assault conviction for Canadian who sabotaged condoms

Human rights group decries flogging sentence for Saudi woman driver

Saudi woman sentenced to 10 lashes for driving

Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai dies

Saudi king gives voting rights to women

Denmark elects first female prime minister

Shiva Rules: Sex selection about more than gender discrimination