LONDON - A couple went on trial on Tuesday accused of verbally abusing a Muslim woman for wearing the hijab while she was staying at their hotel. Ericka Tazi says she was subjected to an hour-long tirade by Benjamin and Sharon Vogelenzang, who are
MEXICO CITY - In a Nov. 19 story about the death of a 119-year-old woman, The Associated Press, relying on information from a Mexican official, erroneously reported the reason that the Guinness Book of World Records did not verify a claim she was th
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - One of eight women on an Antarctic ski trek to the South Pole has been forced to quit the adventure after suffering frostbite just three days into the 40-day journey, the team announced on its Web site. Kim-Marie Spence, 30
NEW YORK - Federal officials say a couple has been charged with sex trafficking of a young woman from Mexico, who was beaten for years and held as prisoner in a Brooklyn home. Domingo Salazar and his wife, Norma Mendez, appeared in U.S. District Cou
PARIS France's foreign minister has praised the courage of a journalist who has led a fight against a law in Sudan allowing for women to be flogged for wearing pants. Bernard Kouchner says Lubna Hussein — who was released in September after t
MEXICO CITY - A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. Brian Quigley, a spokesman for the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, said U.S. citizen
LONDON - A teenager was on Monday to face court over the mutilation and murder of a 28-year-old Asian mother who was brutally attacked and left to die on a street in west London last week. Geeta Aulakh, a receptionist and mother of two young boys,
HAMILTON, Bermuda - Bermuda's highest court has struck down the conviction of a Florida woman who accidentally brought the ammunition magazine from her gun to the British island territory. The Supreme Court ruled there was no evidence that Lori DuBe
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