Saudi Arabia: New Law to Criminalize Domestic Abuse
'Young Invincibles' Jingle Keys to Health Reform
As the Affordable Care Act gets close, younger Americans are being courted by both sides of the debate. Precarious finances--rather than opposition to paying for older people's health care--could stop many from signing up.
Venezuela's hair robbers - an attack against femininity?
Thieves cut off women’s hair at gunpoint to sell to beauty salons - a crime that can be seen as a symbol of violence against women and their bodies, and part of Venezuela’s damaging culture of beauty
Domestic Workers Treaty Goes Into Force
Number of Syrian refugees tops 2 million mark with more on the way
This trend is alarming. A year ago, just 230,670 Syrians were registered as refugees or awaiting registration.
Syrian refugee numbers swell to 2 million - U.N.
The tide of refugees crossing borders has risen almost ten-fold over the past 12 months, figures from the U.N. refugee agency show
Two women shout slogans and hold a banner reading "Cyanide kills, poverty not", during the second day of demonstrations against the government's support for a plan to open a open-cast gold mine in Rosia Montana, in Bucharest
Two women shout slogans and hold a banner reading "Cyanide kills, poverty not", during the second day of demonstrations against the government's support for a plan to open a open-cast gold mine in Rosia Montana, in Bucharest September 2, 2013. People rallied late on Monday to protest against the leftist government's support for the plan to open the mine, Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine, in the small Carpathian town of Rosia Montana. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (ROMANIA - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
ON THE AGENDA: Gang girls, stolen babies and the "Good Economy"
From the war in Syria, to gang culture in the UK, to the rights of women and children from India to Guatemala, take a look at what our journalists are reporting on this week
Indian guru arrested for raping minor, pleads innocent - report
Asaram Bapu, 72 – who has millions of followers in India and overseas – was charged on August 21 with the rape and sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl in the western city of Jodhpur, but he evaded arrest for several days citing ill health and other reasons