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North Korean Lady Soldiers Wear 4-Inch Heels
Zoom in on this strange photograph.
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Here Comes the Bride, All Dressed in Turkey Feathers
If you thought most bridesmaids’ dresses were hideous, imagine having to wear one made of turkey feathers.
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Saudi prince makes economic case for women drivers
Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince AlWaleed bin Talal, a nephew of King Abdullah, has thrown his support behind allowing Saudi women to drive, saying it makes economic sense.
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Is the Burmese Military Keeping Rohingya Women as Sex Slaves?
Burma's Muslims are still having a pretty awful time of it. Last year, the country's Buddhist majority launched a series of attacks on the minority Rohingya Muslim population, supposedly because they're not "ethnically pure."
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Nipple tattooing sweeps UK as women strive for 'perfect boobs'
Liverpool gave us the Scouse Brow; Essex, the vajazzle. Now comes nipple tattooing, otherwise known as 'tittooing', the latest beauty craze for women. Radhika Sanghani reports from the front line.
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Women to blame for earthquakes, says Iran cleric
Women behaving promiscuously are causing the earth to shake, according to cleric, as Ahmadinejad predicts Tehran quake
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Peter Lloyd: 'Why I'm suing my gym over their sexist women-only hours'
When I became a member of my local gym, it was to exercise my body - not my human rights. But that's exactly what I'm doing with the Kentish Town Sports Centre in north London.
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Why Women Like Deep Voices and Men Prefer High Ones
We find different pitches attractive because of the body size they signal—and a touch of breathiness is crucial to take the edge off deep voices in men
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U.S. female sailor beats Dubai rapist bus driver into submission
An off-duty U.S. navy sailor wrestled a Dubai bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he tried to rape her at knifepoint on Jan. 19, a courtroom heard Wednesday.
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Take a Gander at Saudi Arabia's First Ever Anti-Domestic Abuse Ad
While all Saudi women are still under the guardianship of a male family member — usually a husband or father — the first Saudi domestic violence ad marks progress for the Kingdom's women.
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Face transplant recipient's goal: A kiss
After Carmen Tarleton's estranged husband doused her with industrial-strength lye, doctors saved her life with a medically induced coma and more than 50 surgeries.But they could do little about her scar-ravaged face.
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Afghan Women in 1950 vs. 2013
Talk about backward regression.
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Missing mother was 'far from homeless'
The tale of Brenda Heist, the Pennsylvania mother who abandoned her two children only to turn up in Florida 11 years later, has taken another unlikely turn.
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What did suspected bomber's widow know?
What might she have known, if anything, about his activities in the days and months preceding the April 15 bombings? About his travel and associations?
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Limo erupts in flames; 5 women die
A limousine carrying nine women burst into flames on a bridge over the San Francisco Bay on Saturday night, leaving five of them dead and the rest hospitalized, California Highway Patrol officials said.
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Three women missing for about a decade found alive in Cleveland home
Three Ohio women believed abducted separately about a decade ago were found alive on Monday at a Cleveland house near where they were last seen, and three brothers were arrested as suspects in their disappearances, police said.
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Four Women Over Four Decades
In 1975, Nicholas Nixon took a photograph of his wife Bebe and her three sisters, Heather, Mimi and Laurie, aged between 15 and 25 years old. The next year, he took another photograph and realized there was an opportunity to do something special. With their permission, he began to photograph them each year, standing in the same positions, over 36 years.
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Cleveland abductions a chilling reminder of 'House of Horrors'
The House of Horror victims also had a common profile: They were all African-American mothers who had hit upon hard times. Almost all of them struggled with drug addiction at some time in their lives, and many turned to prostitution and stealing to support their habits, according to court records.
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Families reunite with women held captive for years
The first time most of America heard Amanda Berry's voice was on a frantic 911 call. "I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years," the 27-year-old woman said on the call, which was made on Monday. "And I'm here. I'm free now."
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Rare and Classic Photos of the Original Sex Kitten...Bardot
All these years later, however, it’s still difficult for anyone who was not alive at the time to grasp the galvanizing effect that Bardot had — as an actress and as a sex symbol — on moviegoers around the world in the 1950s and early 1960s. Here, LIFE.com celebrates the young Bardot with a series of pictures — most of which never ran in LIFE — made by Loomis Dean in 1958.
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