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“Should I shave my armpit hair?” It is a question that often bothers Xiao Meili, a prominent women’s rights activist in China. “Girls are often anxious about their armpit hair as if it’s a sign of being dirty or uncivilized,” Ms Xiao said. “But we should have the freedom to choose whether to accept what grows naturally on our bodies.” ...

Financial institutions will help EU policing agency spot suspicious transactions that could identify criminal activity. Leading financial institutions in Europe have joined an offensive to fight human trafficking by using data to spot irregular banking transactions that could identify criminal activity, organisers have said. The initiative involving banks and the European Union’s policing agency Europol aims to help financial institutions ...

There must be some truth in between, mustn’t there? Outside North Korea, Kim Jong-un is depicted as a monster. Or a buffoon who sends his goons around to a London hairdresser who dared to poke fun at his haircut. Or a portly playboy with a liking for Swiss cheese, fast cars and faster women. But inside North Korea, he is ...

Country’s PM is under investigation for corruption, but cannot be suspended from office even if found guilty. Romania’s parliament has voted to keep the immunity of the prime minister, who is a suspect in a corruption probe. Lawmakers voted 231-120 against anti-corruption prosecutors’ request to prosecute Victor Ponta. The premier is suspected of corruption charges, including being an accomplice to ...

Opposition fighters take control of a major base that was used by the regime to shell all eastern areas of the province. An umbrella group of opposition fighters have seized the largest army base in the southern province of Deraa – the birthplace of Syria’s four-year uprising – after 24 hours of fighting, a rebel spokesman and monitoring group have ...

Prosecutor wants deadly 2007 car bombing investigated after Al Jazeera airs exclusive interview of al-Qaeda informant. Spain’s top prosecutor has asked police to investigate claims by an al-Qaeda informant that he forewarned Yemeni officials of a 2007 car bomb attack at Yemen’s Balqis Temple that killed 10 people, including eight Spanish tourists. A Spanish police investigation into the claims made ...

Nepali soldiers and police have recovered the bodies of 53 trekkers and villagers buried in avalanches set off by an earthquake in April, and were digging through snow and rocks with shovels and hoes on Monday for signs of more victims. Search and rescue operations had been suspended in the village of Langtang, 60 km (40 miles) north of Kathmandu, ...

At least 17 people were killed and 32 injured after a passenger truck plunged off a 150-metre-high cliff in Peru’s Amazonian region, authorities said on Monday. The accident occurred on Sunday in north-central Huanuco department after the vehicle veered out of its lane and plunged off near the town of Cahuah, Xinhua quoted the highway police as saying. More than ...

Yemen_535607998At least 44 Yemeni soldiers have been killed and more than a hundred injured in an air strike at Yemeni army headquarters in the capital Sanaa, They were killed while waiting to collect salaries, according to the Houthi-run Saba news agency. Earlier on Sunday, army officials said that four explosions shook the compound in central Sanaa, where the soldiers allied ...

Nearly 3,500 migrants were rescued Saturday from 15 boats off the coast of Libya, Italy’s coastguard said. The boats — nine wooden boats thought to be converted fishing vessels and six large rubber dinghies — were all found drifting around 45 miles off the Libyan coast after issuing distress calls via satellite phone on Saturday morning, the coastguard said. Boats ...