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Breaking News Sun, 27 Jan 2013
First Lady Michelle Obama appears on the stage with actor Kal Penn for filming a campaign video at the Democratic National Convention inside Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012.
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 Denver Post 
What will Michelle Obama do with four more years?
| Michelle Obama waves as the inaugural parade winds through Washington on Monday. Along with her new look, White House watchers wonder whether she'll have a new role in her husband's second term. (Ch... (photo: AP / Jae C. Hong)
Indian Hindu Pilgrims take the holy dip  at Gangasagar Island, some 150 kms south of Kolkata, on the occasion of Makarsankranti festival in Kolkata on Sunday, 13 January 2013. Some three hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims gathered at the Gangasagar Mela (Fair) to take a dip in the Ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology, Eastern India
Hindu   India   Photos   Religion   Wikipedia: Kumbh Mela  
 BBC News 
Kumbh Mela: India's Hindu Naga nuns get their own space
For the first time, women ascetics from the elite Hindu Naga - meaning naked - holy order have won the right to have their own separate camp at the Kumbh Mela, the world's largest gathering, in A... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
First lady Michelle Obama speaks to supporters during a campaign event at the Loudoun County Fairgrounds  The Washington Post 
New bangs, Twitter feed, now what else will Michelle Obama do with 4 more years as first lady?
| WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama has a new look, both in person and online, and with the president’s re-election, she has four more years as first lady, too. | That’s got many people wo... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Women in combat may be Panettas crowning achievement in distinguished career  The Wichita Eagle 
Women in combat may be Panetta’s crowning achievement in distinguished career
| WASHINGTON — Leon E. Panetta was an obscure government lawyer in 1970 when Richard Nixon’s administration forced him to resign for enforcing civil rights and equal education laws too ag... (photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo)
Lawyer   Photos   Washington   Wikipedia: Leon Panetta   Women  
Top Stories
Egyptian protesters throw stones at riot police, not seen, and use scrap metal to deflect stones being returned by security forces during clashes near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The New York Times
Street-Level Views of Protests in Cairo to Mark Two Years of Revolution
| Thousands of protesters remained in Cairo’s Tahrir Square late Friday despite thick clouds of tear gas, after a day of nationwide demonstrations on the second ann... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra)
Egyptian Revolution   Photos   Politics   Protests   Tahrir Square   Wikipedia: 20122013 Egyptian protests  
Indian women given kitchen knives and chilli powder to protect against rape The Daily Telegraph
Indian women given kitchen knives and chilli powder to protect against rape
A political party in India is handing out kitchen knives and chilli powder to women following a gang rape in the capital New Delhi that ignited a national debate on the b... (photo: WN / Agnieszka Dziubiska)
Asia   India   Photos   Wikipedia: India   Women  
State tests women in combat role Times Union
State tests women in combat role
| COLONIE — The New York Army National Guard will serve as a testing ground for the Pentagon's new policy of integrating females into combat battalions. | Saying wo... (photo: US Navy / Josh Ives)
Afghanistan   Defence   Pentagon   Photos   Wikipedia: Afghanistan  
US lifts ban on women in frontline combat Al Jazeera
US lifts ban on women in frontline combat
| US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has lifted a ban on women serving in ground combat, saying female troops had proven their courage in a decade of war. | The decision r... (photo: US DoD / A. Kirk-Cuomo)
Combat   Defence   Photos   Women  
Military valor knows no gender bias Chicago Tribune
Military valor knows no gender bias
| In 2005, I toured Capitol Hill with my fellow wounded warriors. A bill had been introduced to ban women from combat, and politicians were debating the issue. As I rolle... (photo: US Navy / Josh Ives)
Afghanistan   Military   Photos   Wikipedia: Afghanistan   Women  
Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta hands Army LTC Tamatha Patterson a document, which he just signed, lifting the ban on women in combat roles during a press conference at the Pentagon, Jan. 24, 2013. Panetta and Dempsey discussed the new directive from the Pentagon to open all military occupations to females, removing the almost 20 year ban of women serving in combat on the front lines. The Examiner
Attitudes toward women now entering combat jobs in the military (Video)
| U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey signed orders today at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia that wil... (photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo)
Defense   Photos   USA   Wikipedia: Women in combat   Women  
Bilateral meeting between NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the Jordanian Foreign Foreign Minister, Mr. Nasser Judeh, at NATO Headquarters. Al Jazeera
Jordan reels over Syrian refugee crisis
| Jordan has launched an urgent aid appeal to cope with a refugee crisis after an estimated 20,000 Syrians crossed over into the country over the past week. | Foreign Min... (photo: NATO)
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Military to lift ban on women Sydney Morning Herald
Military to lift ban on women
| THE US military is to announce the end of a 19-year ban on women in combat, a sweeping change that appears to recognise the reality that female troops have experienced ... (photo: US Navy / Josh Ives)
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First Lady Michelle Obama appears on the stage with actor Kal Penn for filming a campaign video at the Democratic National Convention inside Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012.
What will Michelle Obama do with four more years?
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Swift laughs off love life rumours
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Health Equality
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- Women injecting fat into their bodies 'on the rise'
Army chief signals lowering of standards for women in combat
Army chief signals lowering of standards for women in combat
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- Combat means equality
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- 'Under-represented' women seek Davos equality
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Sex Education Women's Rights
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- It's jury's turn now in sex-abusse trial
- School sends parents email with sex site link
File - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi waves after delivering his speech at the Lower Chamber, in Rome, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011.
Blow for Silvio Berlusconi as judges refuse to postpone sex trial
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, meets with Togo President Faure Gnassingbe, center, and Gilchrist Olympio, President of the Union of Forces for Change, the country's main opposition party and the son of Togo's first elected president, at the Presidential Palace in Lome, Togo, Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week is taking stock of democratic advances in West Africa after an intense year of diplomacy preoccupied by the Arab Spring. The region's improvements in multiparty governance and the rule of law have come in fits and starts, and often on the back of political violence.
President Hillary Clinton? If she wants it
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