MOSUL: A female reporter working for Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw was killed by the explosion of a roadside bomb Saturday during fighting between government...
DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh arrested on four female members of a home-grown militant group blamed for a bloody attack on a cafe in which 22 people were killed, most of them foreigners, an officer said.
MIAMI: Female doctors at public medical schools across the United States earn about $20,000 less per year than men, a study found Monday, offering more evidence of a persistent pay gap between men and women.
SYDNEY: A Sydney scientist has discovered seven new species of the tiny Australian peacock spider - a spectacularly colored, three-millimetre arachnid that dances to attract a female mate.
BANGALORE: India police arrested five people Thursday over an enraged mob's attack on a Tanzanian student who was beaten, her shirt ripped off and car set ablaze in the city of Bangalore.
LOCRI, ITALY: One of Italy's top women's indoor football teams defied a mafia-style threat in the heartland of the powerful 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate Sunday, taking to the pitch to the rallying cries of top sports figures.
HASAKEH, SYRIA: Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State group in Syria.
KARACHI: A teacher of a private school has now been sent on a four-day police remand a day after he was arrested for filming and harassing female students, ARY News reported.
PARIS: On Wednesday morning in a Paris suburb, a woman detonated an explosives belt she was wearing -- a first in France but part of a growing list of female suicide bombers who have carried out acts of carnage worldwide.
KATHMANDU: Nepal's parliament elected lawmaker Bidhya Bhandari as the country's first female president Wednesday, after the adoption of a landmark constitution last month.
DUBAI: Flexing her muscles in defiance of the Gulf's conservative cultural stereotypes, bodybuilder Haifa Musawi has lost all hope of pumping iron for Bahrain so now is looking elsewhere for recognition.
KARACHI: The decision by the Karachi traffic police to enforce the wearing of helmets by motorcyclists is necessary and much needed in any civilized country given that a majority of fatalities (studies suggest as much as 70 per cent) in motorcycle accidents happen because of head injuries.
NEW YORK: "Saturday Night Live" skit about a male student having sex with his female high school teacher painted the relationship as every teen boy's dream, but drew a firestorm of criticism on social media.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief for Reuters news agency died on Monday after collapsing in the office in Islamabad, the company said.
ISTANBUL: A female suicide bomber was killed Tuesday when she blew herself up in an attack on police in the main tourist district of central Istanbul that wounded two Turkish policemen, the city governor said.
MAIDUGURI: More than 45 people were killed when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowded market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of such attacks blamed on Boko Haram.
JERUSALEM: A Canadian-born immigrant to Israel has become the first foreign woman to join Kurds battling Islamic State in Syria, a Kurdish source said on Tuesday, as details of the volunteer's turbulent past surfaced.