French author sparks outrage for saying women over 50 'too old' to love
"I prefer younger women's bodies, that's all. End of. The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all."
Asia must be alert to rise in anti-LGBT+ rhetoric ahead of polls: advocates
Activists fear politicians may use LGBT+ people as scapegoats in election campaigns
With farms atop malls, Singapore gets serious about food security
The small farm belies its big ambition: to help improve the city's food security
Britain urged to build millions of social homes after Grenfell
Britain has experienced a shortage of social housing since the 1980s and years of underbuilding, rising rents and cuts to social-housing benefits have exacerbated the problem
World Bank's Kim abruptly resigns to join infrastructure firm
Kim had pushed financing for green energy projects and largely dropped support for coal power investments
U.S. women face abuse from partners over contraception choices
Women experience abuse ranging from pressure over reproductive choices to deliberate sabotage of contraception to threats of violence
U.S. top court rejects Exxon in climate change document dispute
Ruling clears the way for Massachusetts attorney general to obtain records from Exxon Mobil to probe whether it concealed its knowledge of the role fossil fuels play in climate change
Imprisoned for murder, U.S. sex trafficking victim will be freed
Clemency decision comes amid a wave of new legal measures vacating convictions and expunging criminal records of child-trafficking victims
Head of Brazil's environmental protection agency resigns
A spokesman for the agency said accusations over spending were an attempt 'to get rid of our ability to halt policing for those committing environmental crimes'
Brazilian oversight of NGOs will be tightly controlled - new president
Plans to boost scrutiny over funds NGOs receive has raised concern their activities might be restricted by a nationalist government that has criticized foreign interference in Amazon region