Thousands of mainly Asian expatriate workers in the United Arab Emirates have ended a strike they began at the weekend in a rare stoppage aimed at improving their conditions, their employer said Wednesday.
A transsexual woman won a groundbreaking court appeal in Hong Kong Monday allowing her to marry her boyfriend and forcing the government to re-write the city’s marriage laws.
Saudi Arabia has given girls at private schools the right to play sport, the education ministry said Sunday, in a step aimed at easing restrictions on women in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
The chief of the Philippine National Police on Tuesday directed the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group to create a special team of investigators to help the National Capital Region Police Office in looking into the series of alleged abduction of children in Metro Manila.
The election of Pope Francis has prompted soul-searching in his native Argentina, where the 1970s “Dirty War” between a military junta and leftist opposition divided the local church.
Mexico said Tuesday that more than 26,000 people have been reported kidnapped or missing over a six-year period ending in November 2012, amid a bloody drug war.
Rights campaigners voiced outrage on Sunday over a 13-year-old Afghan boy jailed for having sex with two adult men, urging the Western-backed Kabul government to release him and punish his abusers.
US sporting goods giant Nike said Tuesday it was investigating claims by labor activists that its manufacturers in Indonesia were trying to evade paying its workers the minimum wage.
An Australian politician and his boyfriend are getting married in Spain Wednesday after flying halfway round the world to take advantage of the country’s gay marriage laws, they told AFP.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Ireland on Saturday in a politically charged memorial for an Indian woman allegedly refused the termination of her pregnancy because it was against the law.
The idea was welcome even as it hit a nerve for Leonardo, a 31-year-old writer from Cubao, Quezon City, who lost a close friend–and fellow homosexual–to domestic violence last year.
A Malaysian court Monday overturned a government ban on plans by an online news portal to publish a newspaper, in what the site’s lawyer called a “landmark case.”
Starting Monday, ads describing Muslim militants as “savages” will appear in New York’s subway system, courtesy of a right-wing US anti-Islamic group.
