Women banned from wearing trousers
2009-10-30
Women wearing jeans and other trousers in West Aceh will now face sharia police, as will clothes vendors selling slacks for women |
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Lebanese pop star Nancy Ajram named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Middle East
2009-10-23
Ms. Ajram, was appointed by UNICEF in recognition of her dedication to children’s issues in her native Lebanon |
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Big wedding: 20,000 gather for mass nuptials
2009-10-15
Brides in white gowns joined grooms in black suits and red ties for the Unification Church's biggest mass wedding in a decade..... |
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Germany's Most Popular Woman's Magazine Bans Professional Models
2009-10-15
Brigitte, Germany's most popular woman's magazine, has announced that it will stop using photographs of professional models |
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The ribosome translates the DNA code into life
2009-10-08
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath |
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Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: NASA’s Lost Female Astronauts
2009-10-07
Imagine if the first person on the moon had proclaimed, “That’s one small step for woman, one giant leap for mankind.”
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Nobel prize for chromosome find
2009-10-06
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak jointly share the award. Their work revealed how the chromosomes can be copied... |
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Britain is appeasing Iran, Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi says
2009-09-29
Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer, said that her worst fears were confirmed when she saw the British Ambassador at President Ahmadinejad’s inauguration |
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Award for Poland abortion woman
2009-09-24
A Polish court has awarded $11,000 (7,400 euros) in damages to a woman likened to a child killer by a Catholic magazine for wanting an abortion |
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