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07.03.2015 12:22
It kind of says it all that women’s contributions
are relegated to a single month of recognition,
but let’s not go there. Instead, let’s celebrate
the fact that March is indeed Women’s History
Month, and acknowledge five women who may
not have made it into history books, but whose
work paved the...
07.03.2015 12:18
Mahmoud Ramadam, a supporter of the
deposed leader and convicted of murder, was
hanged, the interior ministry says.
The charges related to an incident when
youths were thrown from a building in the city
of Alexandria.
Mass trials and a crackdown on Islamists and
the Muslim Brotherhood followed Mr...
06.03.2015 16:42
It has taken the satellite 7.5 years to reach
its destination, and it will spend the next 14
months mapping the diminutive world.
Ceres is the first of the dwarf planets to be
visited by a spacecraft.
It should tell us something about the origins
of the Solar System.
Dawn had been chasing down its...
06.03.2015 16:40
Christopher Barry, 53, was stabbed in the
chest at his home in The Broadway,
Edmonton on 14 December.
He had argued with a group of youths trying
to get into a party at a flat in the block where
he lived. He was followed into the building
and attacked, the Old Bailey heard.
The boy, who cannot be...
06.03.2015 16:37
Officials in Vietnam are on the hunt for a
mystery amphibian which was apparently
captured and then sold in the north of the
country, it's reported.
Photos of the metre-long animal were posted
on Facebook by a man who says he pulled it
from a pond near his home in the Vinh Phuc
region, Thanh Nien...
06.03.2015 16:32
Oprah Winfrey has vindicated her legal
might, prevailing in a topsy turvy case that
alleged that she had violated a
motivational entrepreneur's hold over
"Own Your Power" through use of the
phrase on the cover of The Oprah Magazine,
at a magazine-related event, on social
media accounts and on her...
06.03.2015 16:29
The devastating impact of the Ebola crisis
was laid bare this week with a report
showing more than 12,000 children have
been orphaned by the disease in Sierra
Leone.
They have been identified in the first
national survey of orphans, which was
conducted by the British charity Street
Child. It says...
06.03.2015 16:27
This year’s International Women’s
Day celebrations on 8 March
bookend a milestone in women’s
rights. Soon after, world leaders
will descend on the UN in New York
to take stock of how much they have
achieved in the 20 years since a
historic meeting in Beijing, where
they promised to protect...
06.03.2015 16:24
Astronomers have found a star hurtling
through the galaxy faster than any other, the
result of being blasted away by the explosion
of a massive partner star, researchers said on
Thursday.
The star, known as US 708, is traveling at
about 746 miles (1,200 km) per second, fast
enough to actually...
05.03.2015 15:31
"The women in Africa suffer in many cases
from... the fear and stigma associated with
cancer," he said in a speech prepared for
delivery at the launch of the "Warriors Walk
for Cancer" initiative by his wife Tobeka
Madiba Zuma's foundation.
Zuma said women with cancer often suffered
discrimination...
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