Georgiana Sale, the head teacher at City of Leeds School, has had numerous racial insults directed at her. Ever since it was reported, wrongly, that her school was to give all its pupils Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) lessons, her phone has been ringing off the hook. “People ...
A leading British charity said Wednesday the number of three-day emergency food supplies it delivered rose to “shocking” levels in ...
India’s top court Tuesday issued a landmark verdict creating a third gender category, saying transgendered people can now identify themselves ...
Pope Francis on Friday made his first public plea for forgiveness for the “evil” committed by priests who molested children, using some of his strongest words yet on the Roman Catholic Church’s crisis over sexual abuse. The Argentine-born pontiff said the church, which last ...
Black female lawmakers are urging Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to reconsider revised army regulations that ban hairstyles frequently worn by minority women in the military. Sixteen members of the Congressional Black Caucus signed a letter Thursday to Hagel, stating that the changes are “discriminatory ...
Barack Obama on Thursday praised the civil rights legacy of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, saying his 1960s pursuit of equality helped clear the way for an African-American to one day become U.S. president. Obama was joined by three former presidents this week in ...
An Italian court Wednesday recognized a gay couple as married for the first time in the Catholic nation, where there is no form of official acknowledgement of the unions. The court in Grosseto, Tuscany, ordered the city council to list the couple, wed in ...
Millions of poor people in the Philippines will have access to free contraceptives for the first time after the nation’s top court on Tuesday approved a deeply controversial birth control law. The Supreme Court’s ruling was hailed by supporters as a triumph in the ...
It happens every April ahead of the popular summer marriage season, says Tunisian gynecologist Dr. Faouzi Hajri — desperate brides-to-be beg for surgery to make them “virgins” again for their wedding night. Fearing rejection as “used” women in a conservative Muslim country where premarital ...
A new app that lets users shed virtual weight so their faces look skinnier on selfie photos is raising concerns about health and body-image issues. SkinneePix, for iPhone and Android devices, can trim from 5-15 pounds (2-6 kg) of virtual fat for a slimmer ...
Michael Guhle met the love of his life on the beach of a little fishing village in Vietnam. Thi An Nguyen sold freshly cooked mussels and fruit to the German tourist, and they immediately clicked. Soon the Berlin nursing home worker was saving up ...
It boasts a helicopter landing pad, glorious views of the Avila mountain range, and large balconies for weekend barbecues. Yet this 45-story skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, is no five-star hotel or swanky apartment block. It is a slum, probably ...
A sense of belonging to the middle class occupies a cherished place in America. It conjures images of self-sufficient people with stable jobs and pleasant homes working toward prosperity. Yet nearly five years after the Great Recession ended, more people are coming to the ...
Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich is stepping down as CEO and leaving the company following protests over his support of a gay marriage ban in California. The nonprofit, which makes the Firefox browser, infuriated many employees and users last week by naming Eich head of ...
Japan leads the world in health and wellness in a new global index that ranks countries by social and environmental performance.
