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A doctor in the US city of Detroit has been charged with carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) on young girls in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the country. Prosecutors said Jumana Nagarwala had been performing the practice on girls aged between six and eight for 12...

If the Whanganui River is a person, is it just like you and me? The Whanganui River has gained its own legal identity with all the corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person. Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill passed its third reading in Parliament on...

According to Sigmund Freud, a human being’s psychosexual development has five stages: the oral, the anal, the phallic, the latent, and the genital. During the oral stage spanning from birth until the age of one, an infant satisfies its desires simply by putting all sorts of things into its...

Hail Trump!!!! US President Donald Trump will donate his $400,000 (£329,620) salary to charity at the end of 2017, his spokesman has confirmed. And in an unexpected twist, he wants the White House press corps to decide where it should go. Before taking office, Mr Trump told CBS's 60...

4 weeks' jail for driver in accident that cut victim in two SINGAPORE — She took her eyes off the road to reach for a cloth on her dashboard and did not realise her van was veering to the left out of the lane she was in. Because of her four seconds of negligence, Ma Kah Yian, 45, killed a...

More women join the workforce More women are now participating in the workforce, even as the support system to enable women to balance family commitments with career aspirations is being built up, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu said yesterday. "In recent years, we have...

'Save a dog, eat a Chinese' shirts on German site spark outrage, Chinese embassy demands apology The slogans "Save a dog, eat a Chinese" and "Save a shark, eat a Chinese" on T-shirts sold by a German online clothing retailer has sparked outrage in China, with China's embassy in Germany...

'Aircraft carriers ensured India's influence in Indian Ocean' BEIJING: China can learn from India's strategy to maintain its influence in the Indian Ocean with early acquisition of aircraft carriers that display deterrence and protect regional and world peace, a Chinese Navy think tank said...

Department store TANGS panned for offering discounts on frying pans on Women’s Day SINGAPORE — A popular Singapore retailer came under fire on Thursday (March 9) for “trivialising” International Women’s Day by cooking up a promotion offering cut-price frying pans. The department store...