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Five women to know for Women's History Month

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...

Egypt carries out first execution over Morsi clashes

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...

Nasa confirms its Dawn spacecraft is in orbit around dwarf planet Ceres

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...

Boy, 13, admits Christopher Barry party row murder

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...

Vietnam: Officials try to trace 'mystery amphibian'

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...

Oprah Winfrey Wins Tough Trademark Fight Over "Own Your Power"

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...

Ebola ‘leaves 12,000 orphans in Sierra Leone’

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...

Women's rights - how far have we come?

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...

Astronomers find star speeding out of the galaxy

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...

Cancer is a major problem for women in Africa: Zuma said

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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