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Pilgrims stampeded at a mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India on Sunday, and at least 68 people _ all of them women and children _ were killed in the crush that sent worshippers plummeting to their deaths over a broken railing. The devotees were...

In 'Frozen River,' actress Melissa Leo finally has a chance to play a complicated, richly drawn woman - and be the star of the movie at the same time.

There are increasing numbers of single mothers in Kenya. Is it a sign of growing independence of women, or a consequence of poverty and lack of sexual education?

Official results from the July 2008 local council elections in Sierra Leone have been announced by the chairperson of the country's National Electoral Commission. Despite numerous reports of harassment and intimidation, more women were elected to councils than in polls four years ago. But results fell short of the 30 percent representation set by gender activists.

A roadside bomb has killed at least 20 people in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses have said. Most of the dead in the explosion were women who had gathered to clean the streets, they said. Full Story

The East Texas Saberkats, our own local team in the National Women's Football Association, has spent the summer getting ready for their first season in 2009.

SUNNINGDALE, England (AP) -- Ji-Yai Shin has won the Women's British Open by three strokes after a final round 6-under 66....

A roadside bomb killed 15 women who were cleaning rubbish from a street in southern Mogadishu Sunday morning, according to journalists and witnesses at the scene.

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- Ricardo Jacaman and Christopher Nardecchia are being charged with theft, which has been enhanced to a state jail felony due to two prior convictions. A woman on a motorized sco...

Washington - The rate of annual new HIV infections in the US is about 40 per cent higher than previously thought, and African American men and women suffer nearly half of all new infections, US public health officials said Saturday. The re-calculatio...