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The move is part of a bid to eradicate the gender pay gap by 2022 in the Nordic nation where 38 per cent of parliamentarians are female - above the global average - including Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir. (Photo: AFP)

Iceland holds the torch for gender equality, illegalises paying men...

Iceland is ranked as world's most gender equal country by the World Economic Forum.'

5 Jan 2018 12:47 PM IST

Earlier studies had shown significant abnormalities in the white matter in the brains of people who had experienced child abuse (Photo: AFP)

German paedophile on trial: Accused of raping 6 Indian children,...

He is accused of raping six children between 5 and 11 years old in 2015-2016 while working in India.

4 Jan 2018 11:55 AM IST

The father raped his 15-year-old daughter in 2015.

59-yr-old paedophile on trial for raping 6 children in India

The 59-year-old man, named as Karl-Heinz N, was convicted in 1996 by a court in Thailand for sexual offences against...

4 Jan 2018 7:43 AM IST

Hunting has been a hot issue going back and forth between the courts since 2009 after Parliament ended an almost 50-year ban.

Wolf-hunting season opens in Sweden

The licensed season, covering five central municipalities, runs to February 15.

4 Jan 2018 2:56 AM IST

The photo circulated by Pope Francis over the 2017 holidays. (Photo: Vatican Press Office)

Pope Francis signs off 2017 with poignant warning

The photo captures a boy carrying his dead brother on his shoulders while waiting for his turn at a crematory.

1 Jan 2018 4:27 AM IST

United Nations. (Photo: Representational)

UN mediator urging all sides to aim for real progress' in Syria peace...

The talks have achieved little through seven previous rounds that began in 2016, but there are hopes that progress will...

30 Nov 2017 5:57 PM IST

Seconds after his war crimes sentence of 20 years was upheld at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Praljak raised a small brown bottle to his lips, and drank it in full view of the cameras filming. (Photo: ANI)

Slobodan Parjlak convicted of war crimes, drinks poison in court

Praljak was one of six former Bosnian Croat political and military leaders appearing before the appeal court.

30 Nov 2017 12:37 PM IST

CEO Eugene Kaspersky said accusations his software had been used by Russian spies to steal American secrets had caused the companys revenue to decline in North America, but said it was still growing in other parts of the world. (Photo: AP)

Kaspersky founder says Russia never' asked them to spy, will quit' if...

The US Department of Homeland Security has banned government agencies from using Kaspersky Lab software.

29 Nov 2017 8:38 PM IST

Pyongyangs launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile Wedmnesday snapped a two-months pause in testing and was, according to North Koreas state media, more sophisticated than any previously tested. (Photo: AP/Representative)

North Korea's missile test is provocative action': Kremlin

It was the North's third successful ICBM test and poses a new challenge to US

29 Nov 2017 5:59 PM IST

Britains PM Theresa May wants to the country to come together in 2017 post-Brexit. (Photo: AFP)

Britain, European Union agree on Brexit divorce bill: report

The two sides already believe they are close on agreeing the scope of rights for expatriate citizens in Britain and on...

29 Nov 2017 4:22 PM IST

On this historic Tuesday afternoon, the chamber was not big enough to accommodate all the lawmakers and senators who rushed to initiate impeachment against the former independence hero turned pariah. (Photo: AFP)

China, Russia pose higher risk of major interstate war than in 2013:...

The report said defence spending had begun increasing after Russia's annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014.

29 Nov 2017 3:46 PM IST

Nobel laureate Suu Kyi has been decried overseas for failing to condemn the generals, with whom she is in a delicate power-sharing arrangement. (Photo: AP)

Suu Kyi stripped of Freedom of City of Oxford award over Rohingya...

The council of Oxford city decided to remove the honour saying that it does not celebrate 'those who turn a blind eye to...

28 Nov 2017 4:07 PM IST