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  • Women in Kolkata demand death penalty for rapists

    Angry women , including a rape victim, staged a demonstration here today and demanded death penalty for rapists. Sudha Dasgupta, a protester, demanded a strong anti-rape legislation that sets a fear in the hearts of offenders and make them refrain them from committing such heinous crime like rape. ". Rapists should realise that even they have mothers and sisters, whose sanctity is important ...

  • US women in all combat units by 2016 Pentagon

    American women will be fully integrated into frontline and special combat roles, including elite forces such as Army Rangers and Navy SEALs, by January 2016, the Pentagon has said. More than 200,000 women are in the active-duty military, representing about 14.5 percent of the overall force, according to Pentagon figures. Most serve in the army. While air force, army, navy, Marine and special ...

  • Slip into slip dress for night out

    Slip dress, a sleeveless dress with narrow straps, is usually worn by women as innerwear, but the same can now be flaunted at parties too. Fashion designer Nicole Richie was spotted at one of the recent awards in a metallic bronze slip dress. To complement her look, she wore a red matt lipstick, chose bronze colour to do up her eyes and slicked back her hair. Femalefirst.co.uk picked out few ...

  • Exposure to high pollution levels during pregnancy may double risk of having autistic kids

    Women exposed to high levels of air pollution while pregnant were up to twice as likely to have a child with autism as women who lived in areas with low pollution, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). It is the first large national study to examine links between autism and air pollution across the U.S. The researchers examined data from Nurses' Health Study II, ...

  • Regular use of talcum powder ups risk of ovarian cancer by 24pc

    Women who use talcum powder regularly are at higher risk of developing ovarian cancer, according to a new research. US scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have warned that powder particles applied to intimate areas after washing can seep into the body, the Daily Express reported. This can trigger inflammation, while increasing the risk of an ovarian tumour by 24 per cent. The ...


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Oceans [Blu-Ray]

Oceans [Blu-Ray]

Oceans, a French documentary distributed stateside by Disney as part of its ongoing series of ecologically minded nature documentaries that coincide with each years Earth Day, is a beautiful--at times breathtaking--visual examination of the undersea world, whose seemingly limitless potentia ... ...

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  • Why women in red attract men like magnets

    Scientists have found that women are more likely to wear read colour when they are at their most fertile. Scientists asked 124 women, aged 18 to 47, what colour shirt they were wearing and when their last menstrual cycle was and found an association between the peak of fertility and their choice to wear red, Stuff.co.nz reported. According to experts, consciously or subconsciously wearing red ...

  • Do major parties address womens super disadvantage

    Women are participating more in the labour market, but they have more difficulty finding work, earn less and are more likely to work part time than men. This puts them at a disadvantage under our superannuation system. Helen Hodgson and Ruth Medd compare Labor and Coalition ...

  • Bi-weekly iron dose same as daily in pregnancy study

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  • Calling on women to rejoin Bay Street

    Return to Bay Street Award winners, from left, Sheralyn Mills, Mary Ann Mendes and Catherine Staveley at the BMO offices in Toronto. Women in Capital Markets wants more women to rejoin Bay Street's capital markets teams after periods of absence such as maternity ...

  • Women for Anthony hosts event

    Meet the Women for Weiner.The former congressman, who apologized for the lewd picture scandal that ended his House career before launching a bid last month for New York City mayor, is holding a fundraiser hosted by "Women for Anthony" next week at the Manhattan home of an education activist and ...

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