TEHRAN, Jan 7 - Thailand's immigration police chief says the young Saudi woman seeking passage to asylum in Australia will be temporarily admitted to Thailand for evaluation by the U.N. refugee agency.
TEHRAN, December 06 - The first woman elected mayor of Mexico City was sworn in Wednesday for a six-year term leading one of the world's largest cities, in a country with a deep tradition of machismo.
TEHRAN, October 17 -For the first time in U.S. history, a woman is leading the U.S. Army Forces Command -- having taken over Tuesday for Gen. Robert B. Abrams.
TEHRAN, October 17 -A young woman has been shot and injured after Saudi regime forces stormed the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its brutal clampdown against pro-democracy campaigners and political dissidents.
TEHRAN, October 03 -A Texas woman , claiming that she was raped, beaten and sex trafficked at the age of 15 by a pimp who posed as a Facebook “friend,” has filed suit against the social network, alleging its executives knew minors were being lured into the sex trade on their platform.
TEHRAN, August 25 - A former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who helped contain the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, was arrested and charged with sexual abuse on Friday after being accused of groping a woman last year.
TEHRAN, August 20 -A British woman fell off the back of a cruise ship 60 miles off the coast of Croatia and survived 10 hours at sea until she was rescued Sunday morning.
TEHRAN, August 20 - A British woman has been rescued from the sea after falling from a cruise liner and spending 10 hours overnight in waters of the Adriatic Sea.
TEHRAN, August 4 - A 28-year-old woman wearing a niqab on Friday became the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new controversial law banning full-face veils in public places, media reported.
TEHRAN, July 16 - Police in London said a terrified woman who thought there was a burglar in her house called officers, who arrived to find the culprit was a squirrel.
TEHRAN, July 09 - India's Supreme Court has upheld death sentences handed down to three men over the notorious 2012 gang-rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi that sparked national protests.
TEHRAN, June 26 -A survey of 550 international experts has placed Saudi Arabia and the United States on the list of 10 most dangerous places in the world for women.
TEHRAN, May 29 - Paraguay will have a woman president for the first time in its history, at least temporarily, after outgoing leader Horacio Cartes stepped down Monday ahead of schedule.
TEHRAN, April 04 - A woman opened fire with a handgun at YouTube’s headquarters near San Francisco on Tuesday, wounding three people before shooting herself dead as employees of the Silicon Valley tech company fled into the surrounding streets, authorities said.
TEHRAN, February 16 -Iranian-American blogger and fashion designer Hoda Katebi has become a sensation after brilliantly putting down two rude American TV hosts, who kept asking her politically-motivated questions during a program that was about her new book on fashion.
TEHRAN, December 16 -A woman allegedly converted $85,000 into bitcoin and other virtual currencies to support ISIS, but was nabbed by authorities as she tried to board a flight out of the US.
TEHRAN, April 15, YJC - A Saudi woman , trying to escape a forced marriage in Saudi Arabia, has been forced back to the Arab country by his relatives and airport authorities in the Philippines’ capital, Manila, where she had arrived before a planned trip further away to Australia.