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A woman has been jailed for taking a three-year-old British child to Kenya for female genital mutilation (FGM). Amina Noor, 40, from Harrow, north-east London, travelled to Kenya in 2006 where she took the child to a private house for the procedur..
On Friday, Ibtihaj Al Ahmadani, a Board Member of the Qatar Chamber and Chairperson of the Qatari Businesswomen Forum, inaugurated the tenth edition of the 'Arabian Woman Exhibition' at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre (DECC). The..
A client of Malaysia’s biggest bank recently discovered that her bank balance had mysteriously increased to more than $86 million. When Hafidzah Abdullah checked her account late last month it showed she was over 404 million ringgit ($86.3 m..
A Ugandan woman aged 70 has given birth to twins, her doctor said Thursday, in what the mother hailed as a miracle. Safina Namukwaya described her joy at the arrival of the twins who were born on Wednesday at a medical facility in the capital Kamp..
An Abu Dhabi court has sentenced a woman to five years in jail and fined her Dh500,000 for insulting men and domestic workers in a post on social media. The woman, who was identified as M.R.A in court records but whose age and nationality were not..
An Ecuadorean woman has died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin. Bella Montoya, 76, was first declared dead by a doctor at a hospital in the city of Babahoyo last week. But when mourners attending he..
Mourners at the wake of an Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive. A hospital doctor in the city of Babahoyo declared Bella Montoya, 76, dead following a suspected stroke. She was placed in a coffin and taken to a funera..
A woman won a local election in India almost two weeks after her death as supporters kept their pledge to back her in a sign of respect, officials said. Ashiya Bi polled at nearly 44 per cent in the race for a municipal civic body seat in India&rs..
Video: 400kg Jordanian woman evacuated after 16 years of isolation, begins treatment for obesity In an extraordinary rescue operation carried out in Jordan, a 20-member team from the Zarqa Civil Defense successfully evacuated a woman in her thirti..