Trial of actor Cuba Gooding Jr in groping case gets October date
The actor is one of dozens of famous men who have been accused of sexual misconduct since allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein triggered the #MeToo movement
'Everyone needs a place': Gay couple fights for Hong Kong public housing
A gay couple are fighting back after they were denied a public housing flat on the grounds that they were not an 'ordinary family'
In global first, UN body orders Bosnia to pay wartime rape victim
At least 20,000 women were subjected to sexual violence as a tool of warfare during the Bosnian war, the United Nations estimates
Federal judge blocks restrictive Missouri abortion law
The ban was written with the hope it would bring abortion rights to the Supreme Court
"We are hostages": Two years on, Rohingya still in Myanmar trapped by new war
Some 200,000 Rohingya remain in Rakhine state
Ebola appears contained in Goma, but flares in other parts of Congo - WHO
Nearly 3,000 cases have been confirmed, including 1,965 deaths, since the outbreak began a year ago, the second biggest toll in the disease's history, the latest figures show
Salvadoran woman acquitted in abortion case calls for reform
Hernandez was exonerated earlier this week in a closely watched retrial after an earlier judgment found her guilty of killing her stillborn son and sentenced her to 30 years in prison
Flat-packed cities: wooden skyscrapers sprout over concrete concerns
With concrete a major source of climate-changing emissions, cities around the world are looking at high-rise wooden buildings instead
In retrial, El Salvador acquits woman accused of killing her stillborn child
Evelyn Hernandez, 21, was previously convicted of intentionally inducing an abortion and had already served three years of a 30-year prison sentence
OPINION: There will always be challenges: being an aid worker in South Sudan
I would love to hear women speaking up, this will help to change cultural norms. And I want to see men supporting them - men and women need to work together