Saudi women get right to drive bikes
In latest slight loosening of restrictions on Saudi women, they may now ride bicycles and motorbikes -- if accompanied by a male guardian and wearing a top to toe cloak, the abaya.
Hamas law promotes gender segregation in Gaza schools
New rules from the Education Ministry of the Islamist Hamas movement ruling the Gaza Strip will bar men from teaching at girls' schools and mandate separate classes for boys and girls
Former Indian minister, wife arrested on dowry torture charge
The former minister's daughter-in-law Barsa Swony Choudhury alleges her in-laws had physically and mentally tortured her ever since she married Mohanty's son in June last year