Eleven days after she reported the sexual assault to police, she was doused with kerosene and set on fire in retaliation.SAZZAD HOSSAIN/AFP/Getty ImagesWomen hold placards and photographs of Nusrat Rafi at a protest in Dhaka, following her murder by being set on fire after she had reported a sexual assault. The death of a young woman in a small town in Bangladesh has grabbed headlines across the world. Nusrat Jahan Rafi was burned to death for reporting the principal of the school she attended after he sexually harassed her.

When elephants are driven from their migratory paths and natural habitats by industrialization, both humans and elephants pay a terrible price. An elephant calf flees fireballs thrown by Indian villagers in Biplab Hazra’s award-winning image from 2017. Biplab Hazra/Quartz India A firebomb explodes as more rain down on a mother and her calf in the remote Indian village of Bishnupur.Caters News Railway authorities did not consider the ancient elephant pathways when they laid tracks in the Bankura district.

Built in the late 18th century in former limestone quarries, the Paris Catacombs house the bones of more than six million people.Millions of people travel to Paris every year. With the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Louvre, the French capital boasts some of the most recognizable landmarks in the world. But many tourists also make the time to visit the City of Light’s darkest corners: the Paris Catacombs.

Issac W. Sprague — “The Living Skeleton” Wikimedia CommonsIsaac Sprague, pictured in 1867. For the first 12 years of his life, Isaac W. Sprague developed like most boys. But after complaining of a cramp one day, Sprague began to rapidly and alarmingly lose weight — despite his hearty appetite. When he reached adulthood, he weighed just 43 pounds and stood at 5’6″ tall. And by the time he was in his 20s, Sprague was desperate to find work.

In the late 19th century, Amelia Dyer took in untold numbers of babies for a fee, promising their desperate parents she’d use the money to take good care of them. Instead, she pocketed the money — and brutally murdered the children.Public DomainAmelia Dyer, the prolific serial killer who operated a “baby farm” in Victorian England. In Victorian England, unwed mothers who couldn’t care for their babies could pay “baby farmers” to do so.