A recent survey has found that veiled British Muslim women have more positive body image, less affected by beauty standards depicted in media and place less importance on appearance than women who don't wear hijab.

Members of Malaysia's largest political party United Malays National Organization have called for allowing hijab for Malaysia Airlines stewardesses and an alcohol ban, calls that were endorsed by state officials and MAS managers.

The al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released pictures from their military Camp in Mosul of Iraq, showing men and children posing and training with guns. ISIL terrorist group have targeted children for recruitment by providing military training in school settings through free schooling campaigns that include weapons training and giving them dangerous tasks, including suicide bombing missions.

Thirty percent of the Gazans killed by Israeli offensive against the blockaded sliver are women and children, a report says.

A leading Muslim organisation in Sri Lanka is conducting a campaign to persuade Muslim women to give up black abaya and instead wear coloured ones.

Shiite Muslims throughout the world, including Iran, held ceremonies on Sunday to celebrate the birth anniversary of Hazart Fatima-Zahra (SA) and Women's or Mother's Day.

The Palestinian ministry of prisoners' affairs said that Israel has kidnapped more than 10,000 Palestinian women since 1968, 850 of them during Al-Aqsa intifada, appealing to the international community and women's rights groups to pay attention to the issue of Palestinian female prisoners.

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish settlers have killed 1337 Palestinian children since the Aqsa intifada in late September 2000 until late 2010, the Ahrar center's research and media unit said in a documentary report.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for designing a roadmap on role of women in salvation of the mankind.

A report says that "Israeli" soldiers have been accused of sexually and physically abusing Palestinian children detained by the military.

Thousands of young British women living in the UK decide to convert to Islam - here are some of their stories

«Islam gave me the right, in which I was denied in Christianity. Such as personal freedom, economic rights, the right to represent their interests in court, the right to education, to employment and sex, “- says Rodriguez.

Dalia Mogahed is a member of the advisory panel for Obama

Moroccan-Dutch comedian Salahedinne had an unusual request for his performance in the Zuidplein theater in Rotterdam last February.

In America, millions of low-income families struggle each month to obtain a minimally adequate diet. In 2006, 12.6 million children and 22.9 million adults lived in households struggling against hunger, and those numbers are expected to grow amid a weakening economy, rising joblessness, and increased food prices. It is an outrage that hunger would plague so many in one of the world’s biggest food exporters, where more than enough food is produced to feed every American.