Leona Lewis

Leona Lewis is London’s ‘most influential’ woman

News Tue 8 Mar 2011, AT 14:31

Metro readers vote the 2006 X-Factor winner the most influential woman of the last century

Afghanistan women prisoners

15 years’ jail for fleeing from a cruel husband

News Tue 16 Nov 2010, AT 07:11

Exclusive: Inside the Kabul jail where a battered wife serves a longer term than a suicide bomber

Afghanistan poisoning

Taliban accused of gas attack on girls’ school

News Thu 26 Aug 2010, AT 09:34

Was it another Taliban attack – or is mass hysteria to blame?

Saucy Kiev protest

Lubna Hussein

Sudanese woman faces 40 lashes

News Thu 30 Jul 2009, AT 13:24

Lubna Hussein gives up UN protection to make a stand on behalf of Sudan's oppressed women

Stop pretending women can’t be old and sexual

News Thu 19 Mar 2009, AT 12:52

The age-old prejudices about women and the menopause are sexist and outdated

Pic of the Day: Women's day in Afghanistan

Hollywood adopts a softer touch for changing times

News Fri 5 Dec 2008, AT 11:33

As young men turn away from the cinema, film makers are scrambling to fill the gap by tailoring their products for a new, largely female audience