A 27-year-old female Chinese hiker, Dongying Qiu, went missing at Mt. Whitney, California in western U.S., since last Sunday. The rescuers are continuing to search for her and calling for all hikers to provide information. Oil prices keep rising ahead of OPEC meeting Oil prices settled hi...
Magdalena Andersson, Sweden's first female prime minister, stepped down on Wednesday just hours after her appointment. He resignation came after her coalition partner, the Greens, left the two-party minority government, following a budget defeat in the parliament. Andersson said "a ...
ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian parliament's two houses on Thursday appointed Sahle-Work Zewde as Ethiopia's first female president. Zewde was appointed as the east African country's incoming president following the official resignation of former President Mulatu Teshome on Thursday...
South Korean parliament approves nomination of first female prime minister
Samoa's first female prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa. [Image: yahoo.uk] Samoa's first female prime minister has been sworn into office in a tent after she was locked out of parliament by her opponent, who has refused to step down. ...
She has sought to associate herself with another female Conservative prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who famously encouraged social mobility and ambition in the 1980s. Truss highlighted three priorities: 1) To get the UK working: She has promised to cut taxes to boost...
LJUBLJANA, May 13 (Xinhua) -- A new Slovenian parliament, elected at the general election on April 24, held its first session on Friday and for the first time in the country's history elected a female parliamentary speaker. Urska Klakocar Zupancic, a former judge, was elected to the post...
2. Domestic abuse / violence – there’s a great deal of evidence showing women are at least as aggressive as men in their intimate relationships, yet virtually all state support for victims of domestic abuse / violence is directed towards female victims, not male victims. 3. Anti-male bias...
President Aleksandar Vucic announced that Ana Brnabic, 41, was nominated as the prime minister-designate, which could also make her the first female head of government in the country's history. Her cabinet needs formal approval by parliament next week. It was "a difficult decision reached ...
UAE parliament elects first female speaker Amal Abdullah Juma Karam Al-Qubaisi is elected as speaker of the United Arab mirates (UAE) Federal National Council, the first woman to hold such a top post in the country or any other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, in Abu Dhabi, ...