Europe

With the oldest population in the European Union, where one in four are aged over 65, it’s little surprise that Italy is home to the world’s fastest 90-year-old woman sprinter.…

CANNES- Greta Gerwig, director of the smash hit “Barbie” movie, told journalists at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday that the #MeToo movement has led to “substantive change” for the better in…

Bjørg Hjorth Nørgaard, 19, has not finished high school yet but has already enlisted to pay a duty to her country. The young woman has volunteered for Denmark’s four-month military…

Female staff at University College London are shaving the hair off their heads to pressure the institution to divest from Israel, joining hundreds of academics calling on the university to…

Athens, Greece – On the evening of April 1, a Monday, 28-year-old Kyriaki Griva’s ex-partner stabbed her to death outside a police station in northern Athens. She was the fifth woman…

In a recent study published in npj Women’s Health, researchers investigated the cognitive constructs of the self during pregnancy compared to never-been pregnant women. Their findings indicate that first-time pregnancy is…

Nastya Horpinchenko is staring out at the plains of Chasiv Yar, a city in eastern Ukraine, through a cracked car windscreen. “Are you scared?” asks cameraman Andriy Dubchak. “I’m always…

The members of the men-only Garrick Club in central London have voted to allow women to join for the first time. The Garrick Club holds a remarkable collection of art works…

Women and equalities minister Kemi Badenoch said the move would end “the rise of so-called ‘gender-neutral’ mixed sex toilet spaces, which deny privacy and dignity to both men and women”.…

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has said she is “devastated” by the behaviour of boys at a Melbourne school who compiled an offensive dossier on female students. Three male students at…