A well-known Argentine lawyer who was amongst the first people in the country to wed a partner of the same sex has been found dead with her throat slit. Veronica Dessio, 49, was found dead at her home in the neighbourhood of Villa Elvira in the Argentine city of La…
A British-Iranian academic who wrote reports on controversial religious practices such as female genital mutilation and child marriage in Iran has been jailed for nine years for what an Iranian court described as "subversive" research. Iranian officials claimed that Kameel Ahmady was a lackey working for foreign bodies that wanted…
This stunning Afghan refugee - who fled to Europe when her father was killed for trying to stop her marriage to a much older man - is vying to become the next Miss Belgium. Mahdia Karimy, 19, is hoping to become Miss Belgium 2021 after arriving in the country in…
An elderly couple have died just hours apart from each other after 64 years of loving marriage. Wan Zainun Wan Chik, 84, and husband Wan Yahya Wan Husein, 87, lived in the town of Kuala Berang, in the central Malaysian constitutive state of Terengganu..After 64 years of marriage, Chik died…
A woman has been stabbed in the heart by her husband hours before the couple were due to get divorced. The murder is the latest in a number of femicides in Turkey and her mother arranged for only women to be in the funeral procession for murdered Bihter Yalcinsoy, 31,…
