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LONDON -- The early years of the British suffrage movement make an unlikely subject for a comedy show, but this is the theme of a new prime-time BBC series that [...]

LONDON -- Someone in Britain having a nonsurgical cosmetic intervention has no more protection than someone buying a toothbrush. Most dermal fillers (the injections used to fill in wrinkles and [...]

LONDON -- Is feminism an elitist preoccupation? A new British study argues that feminism here has failed working-class women by focusing obsessively on equality in the boardroom and the faltering [...]

LONDON -- Could the next British prime minister be a woman? A surge of rumors in Parliament means it looks marginally more plausible this week than it did last week. [...]

LONDON -- Anyone who happens to be passing through Westminster at 11 o'clock on Valentine's Day may -- if things go as planned -- catch an unusual glimpse of a [...]

LONDON -- Only an estimated 15 percent of female victims of rape and sexual assault in England and Wales report the crime to the police. Many of the rest say [...]

LONDON -- Lucy Holmes finally lost patience with Britain's best-selling newspaper, The Sun, when she bought it to read about the Olympics last summer and discovered that the biggest picture [...]

LONDON -- As prize ceremonies go, the working mothers' top employers awards is not exactly in the same league as the Oscars, but the issues raised by the event chime [...]

LONDON -- With hindsight, perhaps the most surprising thing is how long abortion has been off the political agenda in Britain. An intensely divisive political issue elsewhere, the subject rarely [...]

LONDON -- Two phrases, uttered carelessly in the febrile atmosphere of Britain's weekly political sparring contest -- prime minister's question time -- have come to haunt David Cameron, revealing thought-provoking [...]

LONDON -- What is the best position to adopt if you are staging a sit-down protest outside Downing Street and do not want to be dragged away by the police? [...]

The Indian prime minister described the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses as a 'national shame' on Monday, and called for stricter enforcement of laws devised to prevent doctors from […]

The Olympic torch made a strange and lonely procession through central New Delhi on Thursday, with the event so overshadowed by fears of the anti-Chinese protests that marred its appearances […]

A day before the Olympic torch arrived here from Pakistan, dozens of Tibetan protesters wearing yellow 'Free Tibet' headbands were arrested Wednesday after they stormed through barricades at the Chinese […]

Of all the flattering headlines that greeted the release this month of the first Pakistani film to be shown in India in four decades, one stuck in the mind of […]

Naeem Akhtar has an improbable task in the Indian government's drive to revitalize Kashmir after 18 years of militant violence: rebranding this heavily militarized Himalayan region as a global golfing […]

Every working day for the past 20 years, Suresh Kanwar, a civil engineer in Chandigarh's Forestry Department, has been sitting on the same battered wooden chair, an object he said […]

Yonatan Gher and his partner, who are Israeli, plan eventually to tell their child about being made in India, in the womb of a stranger, with the egg of a […]

India's newest talk show host, billed as the local Oprah Winfrey, hitched up her sari and looked for her stylist's approval. 'Very feminine. You look gorgeous, like a goddess,' he […]

Sania Mirza, the most successful tennis star in India, has announced that she has no desire to play in her country any more after a string of controversies that have […]

As the anesthetic wore off, Naseem Mohammed said, he felt an acute pain in the lower left side of his abdomen. Fighting drowsiness, he fumbled beneath the unfamiliar folds of […]

Should a motorcade be allocated to Carla Bruni, the girlfriend and possible fiancee of the French president? That is one of the protocol issues perplexing Indian officials as they prepare […]

Five years after more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims, were killed as riots swept through the Indian state of Gujarat, the man censured by the courts for failing […]

At least 13 people were killed and more than 60 were wounded Friday in a series of nearly simultaneous bomb blasts outside courthouses in three cities in northern India, the […]

Gap has begun an effort to rebuild its reputation after a child-labor scandal in India, announcing a package of measures on Thursday intended to tighten its commitment to eradicating the […]

The authorities here managed to do very little about the city's soaring wild monkey population -- until the deputy mayor toppled from his terrace to his death as he tried […]

Air quality in New Delhi has deteriorated significantly in the past two years, exposing the capital's residents to heightened risk of a range of respiratory diseases, a leading environmental research […]

After a bad day at work, Manorama Begum can hardly keep from vomiting. After a good day, she is merely disinclined to eat for a few hours, until the stench […]

Losing everything he owns has become a routine disaster for Shankar, a landless laborer in the northeastern state of Bihar who saw his home and belongings destroyed in some of […]

in a struggle to expand its global reach, is trying to enter India through the back door, but many consumers here have taken notice. Wal-Mart completed a joint venture this […]

Indian companies will be free to continue making less expensive generic drugs, much of which flow to the developing world, after a court rejected a challenge to the patent law […]

One of Bollywood's best-loved film stars was sentenced Tuesday in a Mumbai courtroom to six years in prison for illegally possessing weapons, a judgment hailed by critics and supporters of […]

Every morning, New Delhi's commuters face a dilemma. Should they travel to work on the erratic and sluggish state-run buses? Or should they risk boarding one of the speedier, privately […]

A fight for the right to be downwardly mobile exploded this week in north India, as a powerful community of Indian shepherds asserted that the best way to rise up […]

Talks intended to restart stalled negotiations on a landmark nuclear pact between India and the United States began here on Thursday amid disagreement over India's right to continue testing nuclear […]

It is late morning in the Pahar Ganj neighborhood, a stone's throw from the New Delhi railway station at the heart of the capital, and the narrow lanes are alive […]

The day Jugraj Singh, at age 14, abandoned his turban and had a lifetime's growth of hair cut off, he collected the tresses from the barbershop floor and packed them […]