Wall Street Journal
By STACY MEICHTRY ROME — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denied paying women to spend the night at his private residences, the latest effort by the billionaire premier to weather a political storm surrounding his personal life.
Times Online
The Associated Press
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RightFielders Women in Sports, CA
Santos will meet Gina Carano August 15 at HP Pavilion in San Jose, a main event bout that will last five rounds, with each round lasting five minutes. What do you think folks? Who will reign victorious? Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos or Gina Carano? …
Los Angeles Times
PR Newswire (press release)
MMAjunkie.com
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
Put on the Santa Cruz Track club, a organization dedicated to encouraging all runners in the community to participate in running and race walking competitions, the event has become a staple for women runners around the area. Race director Holly Tyler …
AFP
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian presidential hopeful Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed on Saturday to review laws which are "unfair" towards women if he wins next month's election. In a speech to around 1500 women at a sports complex in southern Tehran, Mousavi said he …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
Dining for Women is a national nonprofit organization based on a simple model of charitable giving. Once a month, women get together for a potluck dinner. They take the money they would have spent at a restaurant and donate it to a grassroots …
Los Angeles Times, CA
It turns out Wolverine (or maybe the bare-chested Hugh Jackman) is a hero that women are willing to sit in the dark with — females accounted for 47% of tickets purchased in the US for the mutant movie this weekend. Ben Fritz of the Company Town blog …
E! Online
Screen Rant
Eclipse Magazine
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
Tackling an issue sure to rouse sports fans, lawmakers pressed college football officials to switch the Bowl Championship Series to a playoff, with one Texas Republican likening the current system to communism and joking it should be labeled "BS," not …
Bay Area Indymedia, CA
They are unable to attend school and are often at risk of sexual assault as they travel back and forth to water sources. Photos by Justin Miel. Please contact for permission to reproduce. http://www.gotmiel.com.
New York Times
By ABBY GOODNOUGH BOSTON - Investigators here are exploring whether a single assailant is responsible for three late-night attacks, all in hotel rooms, on women who had advertised massage services on Craigslist, the classified advertising Web site.
Boston Globe
ABC News
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guardian.co.uk
Afghan Shia women protest against a new family law at a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images Despite being called a prostitute and a bitch by furious madrasa students, Shinkai Karokhail, one of Afghanistan's 68 …
The Associated Press
Christian Science Monitor
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