On April 20th 2017 CNN reported that news anchor Bill O’Reilly would be receiving a payout of tens of millions of dollars after he was removed from Fox News’s most popular news program after numerous allegations of harassment were brought forward by many women during the numerous years of his career.

Time.com reported a special story about the ‘heartbreaking' plight of undocumented children in Hong Kong who live without identity as they were born from foreign migrant workers. Around 340,000 migrant domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia came to Hong Kong seeking better economic opportunities. However, Hong Kong government bars them from the right to reside after seven years of residence

On Thursday the 13th of April 2017, US forces dropped the largest conventional bomb in its arsenal on an ISIS tunnel complex in Nangarhar province, in eastern Afghanistan. A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the "mother of all bombs," was dropped at 7:32 p.m. local time, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission.

In an interview to the BBC on the 6th of April, head of Myanmar’s government, Aung San Suu Kyi, once hailed by western governments as an icon for the fight for democracy and human rights, denied that there was ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in the country despite widespread evidence to the contrary.