Activists of Ukrainian women's rights group Femen are removed by security staff as they demonstrate during the Spring/Summer 2014 women's ready-to-wear for fashion show for house Nina Ricci during Paris fashion week
Activists of Ukrainian women's rights group Femen are removed by security staff as they demonstrate during the Spring/Summer 2014 women's ready-to-wear fashion show for house Nina Ricci during Paris fashion week September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE - Tags: FASHION CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY)
Italian pasta baron's anti-gay comment prompts boycott call
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Ex-cop in Thailand found guilty of rape kills victim - report
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Dangers to Female Journalists Get Added Up
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Saudi group campaigns against ban on women driving
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Women in California Wrote the Book on 'Leaning In'
In 1850, entrepreneur Nancy Gooch, center, bought the freedom of her only son and his wife, who were living as slaves in Missouri. She did it with savings from sewing, cooking and laundering for California miners.