PARIS -- When told by the stadium announcer that they were witnessing history, the Paris spectators roared and applauded. Not that the woman making history actually noticed: Sarah Adam was far too occupied — merrily slamming her wheelchair ...
A shooting has left two people dead in the centre of Auckland, New Zealand, hours before the city opened the Fifa Women's World Cup. Six other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident...
Exercise is good for you whenever you do it, but the time of day to achieve the best result may be different for women and men, according to a US study. It found women burned more body fat during morning exercise, whereas evenings count...
A new study adds to the growing evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are safe for both pregnant people and people hoping to become pregnant. The study, which looked at more than 2,000 couples in the United States and Canada, f...
Half of all women have felt unsafe at some point walking alone in the dark, according to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics. They might call a friend, share their location on WhatsApp, or have their keys to ha...
British author Susanna Clarke has won the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction for her second novel Piranesi. The fantasy work is the long-awaited follow-up to her acclaimed 2004 debut Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Piranesi...
Eight people, many of them women of Asian descent, have been killed in shootings at spas in the US state of Georgia. Police said the shootings took place at a massage parlour in Acworth, a suburb north of Atlanta, and two spas in...
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The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out 25 years of increasing gender equality, new global data from UN Women suggests. Women are doing significantly more domestic chores and family care, because of the impact of the pa...
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Executives at China's ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing are being fined over the deaths of two female passengers earlier this year. A 21-year-old woman was killed in Zhengzhou in May after using Didi's Hitch service, which pairs up commuters he...
Gang of women shoplift $10K worth of Lululemon leggings...
When former first lady Michelle Obama took the stage at this year’s United State of Women summit in Los Angeles, the crowd erupted in cheers so loud that Tracee Ellis Ross joked from the stage: “Are you gonna b...
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You might have seen International Women's Day mentioned in the media or heard friends talking about it. But what is it for? When is it? Is it a celebration or a protest? And is there an equivalent International Men's Day? For more than a cen...
A century ago, after years of campaigning, women over the age of 30 who owned property were given the right to vote in the UK. But for many thousands of women, it was not a moment of celebration. Known as the anti-suffrage movement, these w...
2018 Oscars nominees for Actress in a Supporting Role are all women over 45...
Some of the world's biggest car makers have started advertising their vehicles directly to women in Saudi Arabia. The swift move follows the official announcement on 27 September by King Salman that the country's ban on women drivers wi...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has issued a decree allowing women to drive for the first time, to the joy of activists. The Gulf kingdom is the only country in the world that bans women from driving. Until now, only men were allowed licences an...