Indian police find 19 female foetuses dumped in sewer
Mumbai – Indian police say they found 19 aborted female foetuses dumped in a sewer in the western state of Maharashtra on Monday, highlighting the country’s problem of female foeticide. Prenatal sex...
View ArticleFemale traffic lights to promote gender equality in Australia
Melbourne – Pedestrian traffic lights showing female figures rather than male have been installed in Melbourne to reduce “unconscious bias” and promote gender equality, officials said on International...
View ArticleBoy poisons female classmate in Singapore with liquid hand soap
A Primary 3 girl has landed in hospital after falling victim to a prank by a male classmate who secretly added liquid hand soap to her water bottle. The victim had a fever and bouts of vomiting after...
View ArticleUS’ first female Muslim judge found dead in Hudson River
New York – A groundbreaking black jurist who became the first Muslim woman to serve as a US judge was found dead in New York’s Hudson River yesterday, police said. Sheila Abdus-Salaam, a 65-year-old...
View ArticleUber driver charged with sexually assaulting female passenger
A 46-year-old Uber driver was charged on Tuesday with raping a female passenger at a North Hollywood motel, Southern California, while the 24-year-old woman was unconscious, the Los Angeles County...
View ArticleWorld’s most celebrated female mathematician, Maryam Mirzakhani, dies at 40
New York – Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and only woman to receive the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics, died on Saturday at age 40 after a battle with cancer, said officials at Stanford...
View ArticleHalimah Yacob becomes Singapore’s first female president
Singapore – Former Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob is set to be Singapore’s first Malay president in more than 47 years, after the Elections Department (ELD) said on Monday (Sept 11) that only one...
View ArticleChinese university professor beats up female street cleaner for blocking his car
Hong Kong – A university professor in north-western China has been put in detention for 10 days for hitting and kicking a female street cleaner. The teacher, surnamed Ge, was also fined 500 yuan...
View ArticleFemale British embassy worker found strangled near Beirut
Beirut – A female British embassy worker has been found strangled near a highway outside Beirut, a Lebanese security source said yesterday. The British foreign ministry provided a statement by the...
View ArticleBank allegedly forced female staff to resign after marriage
Seoul – A branch of local bank Saemaul Financial Firm allegedly forced its female employees to resign after marriage. In an interview with a local news outlet, one of the former employees said, “When...
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