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WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 3:11pm neoform

Daily Mail -- Men who have sex with drunken women risk being convicted of rape - even if they appear to have given consent. Ministers will unveil the controversial proposals this week in a bid to boost conviction rates for sex offences and bring more 'date rapists'.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 9:51am neoform

Washington Post -- Manal Fageeh never liked the abaya, the long black cloak she was forced to begin wearing at 13. She resented the fact that it was obligatory for women in Saudi Arabia, and the black absorbed heat in the often-scorching climate. When Fageeh, a health in.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun May 13, 2007 @ 10:20am neoform

CNN -- Women in Myanmar not only have to watch out for pickpockets when they're commuting, shopping or walking down the street, but also hair thieves, a weekly journal reported Sunday. Long-haired women in crowded areas have fallen victim to surreptitious hai.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 11:28am neoform

FOX News -- Italian TV stations on Sunday repeatedly showed videos of two women sought in the slaying of a young woman who was fatally stabbed in the eye with an umbrella on the subway platform of Rome's main train station. News programs played video from surveill.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Apr 6, 2007 @ 11:27am neoform

Yahoo News -- Uganda scrapped an adultery law Thursday that campaigners said discriminated against women. Uganda's Constitutional Court ordered the changes to the Penal Code, under which it was legal for a married man to have an affair with an unmarried woman but ag.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 2:07pm neoform

News.com.au -- TWO Sudanese women were sentenced to death by stoning for adultery after a trial in which they had no lawyer and which used Arabic, not their first language, the rights group Amnesty International said. Sadia Idriss Fadul was sentenced on February 13 a.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

FOX News -- A religious cult leader who raped, murdered and ate at least three women in Papua New Guinea has been captured by a group of villagers. Steven Tari, 35, who called himself the "black Jesus" was beaten by locals from the village of Matepi before being h.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 1:44pm mrmdc

Times Online -- For 62 years, Akira Makino spoke not a word of what he’d done, but to those who knew him well it must have been obvious that he was a man with a tortured conscience. Why else would he have returned so often to the obscure, mosquito-blown town in the sou.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 2:28am neoform

BBC News -- China's future problems are easy to spot. You can see them in the front row of the Hui Kang kindergarten class in the city of Huizhou. Four boys sit next to a girl. Further back, a girl in pigtails and a pink jumper stands out amid a group of boys... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jan 13, 2007 @ 10:52am neoform

BBC News -- China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women by 2020, making it difficult for them to find wives, according to a national report... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jan 11, 2007 @ 10:13am mrmdc

BBC News -- Thousands of women in Ghana are seeking dangerous, illegal abortions every year with many ending in death or disability... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 8:14pm neoform

This Is London -- Men who have sex with drunken women will be at risk of being convicted of rape under new laws to be considered by ministers... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 19, 2006 @ 10:01am mrmdc

www.dnaindia.com -- British police arrested on Tuesday a second suspect over the murder of five women whose naked corpses were dumped around a quiet English town, gripped by fear of a serial killer... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 9:53am mrmdc

The Australian -- FIVE women are now believed to have been killed by Britain's worst serial killer of prostitutes since the Yorkshire Ripper after the discovery of two further bodies... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 17, 2006 @ 4:22pm neoform

MSNBC -- Warning: do not read this story if you are easily disturbed by graphic information, or are under age, or are easily upset by accounts of gruesome sexual violence... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Nov 9, 2006 @ 10:51pm neoform

BBC News -- This street in Beit Hanoun is very, very quiet indeed. It's just a matter of hours since a number of Israeli shells fell on houses in this area, killing 18 people, including six children and two women... Read More

WORLD / OPINION Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 4:01pm neoform

New York Times -- The rights and safety of Nicaragua’s women took a giant step backward last week when the country’s legislature passed a law criminalizing all abortions, with no exceptions. The previous law permitted an abortion if the mother’s life was in danger... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Apr 16, 2008 @ 8:08am neoform

CNN -- Life behind bars in a Russian women's prison is not glamorous. Convicted murderers serve time alongside thieves and drug dealers with few luxuries. But inmates of Women's Correctional Colony No. 5 are undeterred. Every year, this prison in western Russia.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 7, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- Australian police say they have broken up an international sex-trafficking ring after rescuing 10 South Korean women from Sydney brothels. Five people have been arrested and charged with offences including people trafficking and debt bondage. Police.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Katrin Fakiri's office is a constant rush of phone calls, e-mail messages, and people entering and leaving. On a wall, a framed picture of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with Fakiri and several other women hangs crookedly. Fakiri, 35, is the direc.. Read More