A flood of newly published accusations that Donald Trump groped or inappropriately kissed women rocked the race for the White House on Wednesday, with the Republican nominee angrily denying the reports.
Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower, will be lit up in pink this week to raise awareness and funds to fight breast cancer, its developers said on Wednesday.
Thousands of Saudis have signed a petition urging an end to the guardianship system giving men control over the work, study and even travel of female relatives, an activist said Tuesday.
French investigators were on Saturday probing a group of women arrested on suspicion of plotting new jihadist attacks, including an attempted car bomb near Paris's Notre Dame cathedral.
The former women's minister of the Indian capital -- who was sacked over a ‘sex tape’ -- has now been arrested following a claim by a woman shown in the tape that he raped her ...
Swiss doctors have asked thousands of colleagues worldwide to provide data for the first global registry of women exposed to Zika, the team's lead researcher said Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had prevented three Saudi women and seven children from travelling through Lebanon to join the conflict in neighbouring Syria, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
Veteran American Kristin Armstrong completed a remarkable Olympic cycling hat-trick of gold medals by winning the women's 29.7km time-trial in Rio on Wednesday.
A woman and her teenage daughter were allegedly dragged out of their car and gang-raped by a group of men near New Delhi, police said on Sunday.
A Pakistani teenager allegedly burned alive for refusing a marriage offer actually committed suicide, police said Friday, in a statement slammed by a prominent rights activist and the girl's father.
A feminist author hit back Monday at Pakistan for censoring her article on Muslim women and sex, saying the ban exposed the depth of gender discrimination ...
A Pakistani rights group Friday condemned a village council for ordering the brutal murder of a young woman after she helped a friend to elope.