Violence against women is "an extensive human rights abuse" across Europe with one in three women reporting some form of physical or sexual abuse since the age of 15 and 8% suffering abuse in the last 12 months, according to the largest survey of its kind on the issue, published on Wednesday.

The survey, based on interviews with 42,000 women across 28 EU member states, found extensive abuse across the continent, which typically goes unreported and undetected by the authorities.

Morten Kjaerum, director of FRA, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, which was responsible for the survey, said: "Violence against women, and specifically gender-based violence that disproportionately affects women, is an extensive human rights abuse that the EU cannot afford to overlook."

A northern New Jersey honor student who says her parents kicked her out of the house when she turned 18 is now suing them, asking a court to make them support her and pay for her college tuition.

A judge in Morristown Tuesday ruled against immediately forcing Rachel Canning's parents - her father a retired police chief - to pay her $650 weekly child support and pay for her remaining year of high school tuition, as she requested in a lawsuit filed last week. Judge Peter Bogaard scheduled a hearing for next month to decide whether to require her parents to pay for Canning's college tuition.

"Do we want to establish a precedent where parents live in basic fear of establishing rules of the house?" Bogaard asked.

The New Jersey Star Ledger reported Bogaard's caution to legal counsel in his initial ruling against an emergency order. It "would represent essentially a new law or a new way of interpreting an existing law," he said. "A kid could move out and then sue for an XBox, an iPhone or a 60-inch television."

Watch this report about the judge's initial ruling from WCBS-TV:

Every year, without fail, Joe Ferri writes a $100 check to the Archdiocese of Newark for the Archbishop's Annual Appeal, a fundraising drive that benefits a variety of religious causes.

This year, Ferri left the empty envelope on his pew at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Bloomfield. He's done writing checks.

"If this is the only way I can be heard, so be it," said Ferri, 70. "I'm disgusted. The archdiocese is not going to get another penny out of me."

Two weeks after The Star-Ledger disclosed that Archbishop John J. Myers is building a 3,000-square-foot addition on the expansive home where he will spend his retirement, it appears the work will cost the archdiocese far more than the $500,000 allotted for construction.

Parishioners, infuriated by what they call a tone-deaf show of excess at a time when Catholic schools are closing and when the pope has called on bishops to shed the trappings of luxury, say they're cutting off contributions entirely or sharply curtailing them.

Others said they will continue supporting their local parishes but will ignore the annual appeal, which has been heavily promoted in churches over the past month across the archdiocese, home to 1.3 million Catholics in Essex, Hudson, Union and Bergen counties.

At stake are millions of dollars that support schools, youth ministries, retired priests and Catholic Charities, the nonprofit agency that runs homeless shelters and provides a wide array of services for the poorest residents. In recent years, the appeal has brought in between $10 million and $11 million annually, said Jim Goodness, a spokesman for Myers.

While acknowledging the good work the church does, the parishioners said they believe their complaints will be ignored if they don't make the point more indelibly with their pocketbooks.

"The only language the church understands is money," said Maria Bozza, 69, who has urged fellow parishioners at Holy Family Church in Nutley to withhold contributions to the archdiocese. "We need to start an 'empty envelope month' to replace the archbishop's annual appeal. If parishioners in every church in the Newark Archdiocese sent in an empty envelope, then they will get the message."

Belgian indoor soccer star of the country's national team, Omar Rahou, was suspended for 10 matches Tuesday by the European football authorities (UEFA) for making a 'quenelle' gesture as he celebrated scoring a goal in late January in a European championship match at an arena in Antwerp.

Omar Rahou, 21 years old, scored the only goal the only goal in Belgium's 6-1 defeat against Romania in the first round of the championship and celebrated his goal with a 'quenelle', which got him banned for 10 matches. This sanction applies to his involvement in both the national team and his professional club, Châtelineau.

The player can appeal. The 'quenelle' - one arm pointing downwards, the other touching the shoulder - is at the heart of a scandal in France and was qualified as an inverted Nazi salute by LICRA (International Organization Against Racism and Anti-Semitism).

The French soccer striker Nicolas Anelka, who did a 'quenelle' during an English league match in which he scored for his club West Bromwich Albion on December 28, 2013, was suspended for 5 matches last week by the English Football Association.

Anelka pleaded not guilty. He explained that he made the gesture as a 'dedication' to his friend Dieudonné, the controversial French comedian.

The first three studies in a large research initiative to better understand US military suicides indicates that some patterns in military suicide are reflective of mental health problems in the civilian population.

The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members (Army Starrs) uses data from existing army systems and what researchers can collect from soldiers to better understand why soldiers might be at an increased risk for suicidal behavior compared to the civilian population.

2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

A television crew from Ireland's national broadcaster happened to be recording a documentary about Chavez during the events of April 11, 2002.

Shifting focus, they followed the events as they occurred. During their filming, the crew recorded images of the events that they say contradict explanations given by Chavez's opposition, the private media, the US State Department, and then White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. The documentary says that the coup was the result of a conspiracy between various old guard and anti-Chavez factions within Venezuela and the United States.

Oliver Stone's documentary about Latin America, South of the Border, saw the film maker set out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nestor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone shows a side to what's going on there that Western corporate media is oblivious too.

The L.A. City Council today voted unanimously to place use of e-cigarettes in the same category as cigarettes. That means puffing on so-called "vapes" or vaporizer pens will be banned in clubs and bars, on beaches, in parks, in many office buildings, in markets and restaurants, and even in outdoor dining areas within city limits.

The vape industry was against the move, of course, saying the jury's still out on any possible harm caused by vaping. Some claim the water vapor from smoking nicotine is harmless and that the devices are priceless to those trying to quit actual cigarettes.

Like probably a lot of us, Ellen Degeneres doesn't really know how to use a Samsung phone.

Samsung executives reportedly had to teach the lovable talk show host how to use a Galaxy Note 3 before the Oscars, according to the Wall Street Journal. And it's a good thing too: Ellen's Samsung-sponsored selfie got the company some prime advertising that's perhaps worth more than the $20 million the WSJ estimates the tech giant spent on ads during the Oscars.

That's because the lame attempt at proving that celebrities are just like us! turned out to be the most retweeted photo in history. And the WSJ confirms what we probably all already knew -- the seemingly organic moment between Ellen, Bradley Cooper, Meryl Streep and pretty much every other famous person alive was basically product placement.

Here's said photo in case you've been living under a rock:

Portland, Oregon -- Two bald eagles were stuck together in a tree in Portland for several hours before violently separating themselves and flying away Monday afternoon.

The eagles appeared to have tangled their talons in one another and struggled to free themselves from a tree on Southeast 55th Avenue between Sherman and Division streets Monday morning.

The incident attracted neighbors from the surrounding area, one of whom contacted KGW.

Officials from the Audubon Society and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife eventually arrived to assist the birds.

The two appeared to be males involved in a territorial clash, according to Susan Barnes, regional conservation biologist with ODFW.