Police believe the man - a gerontophile with a predilection for elderly women - has broken into the homes of 98 pensioners in south-east London over the past 16 years, raping four of them and indecently assaulting 24.
A taxi driver contracted to international online cab firm Uber and detained on charges of raping a female passenger last weekend in the Indian capital Delhi is a serial sexual offender with dozens of criminal complaints registered against him, local media have claimed.
"They're abducting women, raping, selling women and children in the market place.
Sean Hodgson was freed by the court of appeal in March after it overturned his conviction for raping and killing gas board clerk Teresa de Simone in 1979.
Anwar was charged this year with raping a young male aide.
The Columbia University graduate who carried a dorm room mattress on campus for months in protest at the school's refusal to expel the man she accused of raping her, released a performance art piece that depicts a sexual encounter she warns "may resemble rape".
An Italian former policeman who used Couchsurfing, a hospitality exchange and social networking website, to allegedly lure young women to his home, where he drugged and assaulted them, was on Tuesday found guilty of raping a 16-year-old Australian girl and sentenced to six and a half years in prison.
It has found that the country's police and security personnel are systematically raping President Joseph Kabila's female opponents.
It's a long, squalid story that also involves Owen Oyston, the club's 81-year-old owner, a property tycoon who was convicted in 1996 of raping a 16-year-old girl (when he was 58) and served three and a half years of a six-year sentence.
Detectives think there is little hope that the boys are still alive, and last week they visited Full Sutton prison in York to talk to Brian Lunn Field, who is serving life for raping and strangling 14-year-old Roy Tutill in Surrey in 1968.
They are shown goading, raping and even killing to get sensational footage for the media back home.
