Booming Skilled Trades Are Ready for More Women
For Labor Day, Audrey Clark offers a look at four building trades that all promise strong growth and good pay. For women it's no longer flying too high to think of a high-paying job in, for instance, aviation mechanics.
China's Women Left Out of Real Estate Boom
The biggest accumulation of residential real-estate wealth in history, worth more than $30 trillion in 2013, has shut out women, since most property is registered in only men's names, says Leta Hong Fincher in this excerpt from "Leftover Women."
U.S. judge halts major part of Texas law restricting abortions
A U.S. judge has said that requiring clinics to have certain hospital-like settings for surgeries is unconstitutional
Colombia arrests suspected drug trafficker for major Mexico cartel
COLOMBIA-CRIME/:Colombia arrests suspected drug trafficker for major Mexico cartel
Suriname leader's son pleads guilty to trying to help Hezbollah
SURINAME-HEZBOLLAH/:Suriname leader's son pleads guilty to trying to help Hezbollah
British police chief says won't quit over racially tinged child abuse scandal
The scandal, centred on the northern English town of Rotherham, uncovered the sexual exploitation of at least 1,400 children by men of Pakistani heritage
Women venture capitalists underperform men, say Harvard academics
VENTURE-WOMEN/RESULTS:Women venture capitalists underperform men, say Harvard academics
Women and children, members of a Jewish community, board a bus while preparing to leave the village of San Juan La Laguna
Women and children, members of a Jewish community, board a bus while preparing to leave the village of San Juan La Laguna August 29, 2014. A few months after moving from Canada to a remote part of Guatemala to find religious freedom, a group of ultra orthodox Jews have been forced out of their homes in a bitter conflict with hostile villagers.The Lev Tahor community packed its bags on Friday in San Juan la Laguna around 150 km (93 miles) west of Guatemala City, to board buses bound for the capital after weeks of friction with sections of the local population. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (GUATEMALA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Women members of a Jewish community walk towards a bus as they prepare to leave the village of San Juan La Laguna
Women members of a Jewish community walk towards a bus as they prepare to leave the village of San Juan La Laguna August 29, 2014. A few months after moving from Canada to a remote part of Guatemala to find religious freedom, a group of ultra orthodox Jews have been forced out of their homes in a bitter conflict with hostile villagers. The Lev Tahor community packed its bags on Friday in San Juan la Laguna around 150 km (93 miles) west of Guatemala City, to board buses bound for the capital after weeks of friction with sections of the local population. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (GUATEMALA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST)
As Syria refugee numbers reach three million, destabilization of neighbouring countries even more likely
Jordan and Lebanon at risk warns ActionAid personnel in the Middle East