Category: Femina

The mother and uncle of a Canadian woman killed 14 years ago have been ordered extradited to India in stand trial in her alleged “honour killing”. Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Surjit Singh Badesha are accused of ordering the murder after…

Chief Executive of BRAC UK Mary Garvey has said the lessons learnt in Bangladesh in the areas of child health and women’s empowerment have the potential to make huge differences in other communities across the world. Garvey also said though…

The residents of a town on Canada’s Newfoundland island fear a blue whale carcass that washed up on its boardwalk last week could explode at any time.

The death of Gabriel García Márquez, on April 17, 2014, of pneumonia, probably the consequence of his long struggle with lymphatic cancer, brought a period of Latin American and, perhaps, world literature to an end.

(RFE/RL) — The veteran leader of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, has been briefly detained by Russian border guards while entering Crimea from mainland Ukraine.

Mina Dubai — long champion of all things biggest, longest and most expensive — will soon have some competition from neighboring Saudi Arabia.

While the real World Cup trophy continues its global tour before meeting its new owner in Brazil, Chinese authorities have confiscated thousands of fakes intended to be sold in different corners of the planet.

The Security Council has approved my proposal to deploy a United Nations peacekeeping mission to the Central African Republic – opening the way for 10,000 troops and almost 2,000 police to bring a semblance of order to a nation in…

Three years after the Fukushima accident, which led to calls for Japan to phase-out nuclear power, the country’s cabinet has given its approval to an energy policy that recommends the restart of its idled nuclear reactors.

A group of MPs representing both majority and opposition parties have asked Russia’s Prosecutor General to probe the events leading to the breakup of the Soviet Union. They view possible action against former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

Given the security and political environment (including the weather and rains) within and outside Afghanistan, the recently held electionto usher in their next president is perhaps the most significant democratic poll in the history of the country.

A court in Argentina has sentenced 10 people to up to 22 years in jail for the kidnapping and sexual exploitation of a young woman, Marita Veron.

In the month since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, search and rescue teams have patrolled areas of the southern Indian ocean, thousands of kilometres apart.

With Nato assessments that there are some 40,000 Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border ready to move at a few hours’ notice, the heightening war of words between Moscow and Kiev raises a genuine prospect of conflict.

A couple in New Zealand are hoping to claim back a unique engagement ring, which has reportedly been found six years after it was lost in the sea.

Hospitals and medical clinics around Indonesia have been told to get ready to receive depressed losing candidates after parliamentary elections on Wednesday, it’s been reported.

Political speculations and analyzes about the Indian electoral battle are mainly revolving around the prospects of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) possible victory.

Residents of the Falkland Islands have ridiculed claims from the Argentinian president that nuclear weapons were deployed in the area, joking that they were in fact penguins, not missiles.

EurActiv– The UN’s secretary-general has called on EU leaders to set an example and agree on an ambitious 2030 target at a Council Summit in June, that can be taken to a UN conference in Lima three months later, and…

Argentina has launched a new 50-peso currency note featuring a map of the Falkland Islands to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the invasion of the British archipelago.

The veteran leader of the Crimean Tatars has called on the UN Security Council to send peacekeeping forces to Crimea.

Altitude sickness is two illnesses, according to Edinburgh scientists.

(RFE/RL) — Russian-language media have launched a blistering attack against Crimean Tatar businessman Lenur Islyamov, owner of the independent ATR television channel in the Crimean capital, Simferopol.

Burma’s seemingly unending cycle of internal conflict is perhaps closer to a resolution than at any other point in recent memory.

The European Union and non-member countries in the region are supporting diplomatic efforts to put an end to the Ukrainian crisis and ensure a peaceful settlement of what many say is the worst impasse since the fall of the Soviet…

It was almost ten years ago when, before the House International Relations Committee, I objected to the US Government funding NGOs to meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine.