Britain's Most Powerful Woman...

Nicola Sturgeon unsurprisingly took the top spot on Women's Hour's Power List, unveiled yesterday, but she was joined by a few perhaps less obvious choices in the top 10. 

What links a reporter and the robot apocalypse?

A journalist started a Twitter storm when she reported an industrial accident in Germany - but the huge interest wasn't about the story.

What it means to be female in Nigeria...

What does it mean to be female in Nigeria? Women in Nigeria are using a hashtag on Twitter to share their experiences of everyday gender discrimination.

How I was de-radicalised...

It's become known as the Aarhus Model, a programme designed in Denmark's second city to dissuade young people from going to fight for al-Qaeda or Islamic State. Thirty travelled to Syria in 2013 but only two so far this year - and only one in 2014. Ahmed is one young man who was convinced, a few years ago, to draw back from the first step on a path that could have ended in jihad.We meet in a large, loud, busy Turkish restaurant on the edge of the city, but we don't stay long.

Great news! Mystery amnesia woman identified as American...

Thousands of people tried to help her solve the mystery of her identity. She is a woman whose case sparked a social media hunt after she was found on a US street with amnesia has been identified by her family.

Rwanda's President Kagame denounces UK over Karake arrest...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has launched a scathing verbal attack on the UK government after the arrest of his intelligence chief. In his first comments since the arrest, Mr Kagame said it was a continuation of "colonialism" and accused the British of "arrogance and contempt".

"We will not tolerate threat to security", France said...

France "will not tolerate" acts that threaten its security, President Francois Hollande says, after Wikileaks revealed that the US spied on him and his two predecessors.

Queen 'could move out of Buckingham Palace'...

The Queen may have to move out of Buckingham Palace to allow maintenance work costing £150m to be carried out. It is one option being considered by the royal household, which says the palace needs new plumbing and wiring and has not been decorated since 1952.

Breaking News: Charleston church shooting suspect captured...

The 21-year-old Dylann Roof, suspected of shooting dead nine people at a black church in the southeastern US city of Charleston has been captured, media reports said few minutes ago.  Dylann Roof was taken into custody in North Carolina, according to CNN and two local television stations.

Pope Francis encyclical calls for end to fossil fuels...

Pope Francis on Thursday urged the world to act quickly to prevent “extraordinary” climate change from destroying the planet and said wealthy countries must bear responsibility for creating the problem and for solving it. In a radically worded letter addressed to every person on the planet, the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics blames human greed for the critical situation “Our Sister, mother Earth” now finds itself in. Newly elected Pope Francis I, formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires. 

Hate Crime: Nine reported dead in Charleston Church Shooting...

Nine people have died in a shooting at a historic African-American church in Charleston in the US state of South Carolina, officials say.

City police chief Gregory Mullen said eight of the victims were killed inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday evening, while another person died shortly afterwards.

Believe it or not- Some women are seeking rich older men to pay their university fees...

It's been euphemistically referred to as "mutually beneficial, transactional dating" but is the growing world of "sugar daddy" relationships just a sanitised term for sex work?

Freya is 22 and wearing jogging bottoms and a tatty T-shirt. She expresses herself unaffectedly and confidently.
She decided to start sleeping with older men for money while she was at university. "I love sex," says Freya. "And you know, I'm pretty good at it. So getting a sugar daddy - or two - was a no-brainer really."

Race activist Rachel Dolezal: 'I identify as black'...

Rachel Dolezal, a US race activist, has said she "identifies as black" following claims from her parents that she is actually Caucasian.

Ms Dolezal cited a "self-identification with the black experience", explaining that as a child she used the "brown crayon instead of the peach crayon" when drawing self-portraits.
She said she has lived a "life of survival" and all the decisions she has made, including the decision to self-identify this way, were "to survive".

Royal Wedding: Prince Carl Philip to marry reality star, Sofia Hellqvist...

An ex-reality TV star is set to become the first "commoner" for centuries to become a Swedish princess when she marries Prince Carl Philip.

Sofia Hellqvist, 30, has worked as a topless model, later becoming a yoga instructor and working for charity.
Her fiance, 36-year-old Carl Philip, is third in line to the Swedish throne.
Half a million are expected to line the streets of Stockholm for the event, despite polls suggesting the Swedish royal family's popularity is waning.

DC Mansion Murder Housekeeper Adds New Details to Mysterious Timeline...

A housekeeper for the Savopoulos family is providing new insights about the day the three members of the Washington, D.C., family and another housekeeper were killed inside their fire-damaged home, as investigators continue to sort through the case’s mysterious circumstances.
Nelitza Gutierrez was a housekeeper for the Savopoulos family for 20 years but was not at the family’s D.C. mansion on Thursday, May 14, the day Savvas Savopoulos, his wife Amy, their 10-year-old son Philip and housekeeper Veralicia “Vera” Figueroa were found with multiple injuries inside the home after it had been set on fire. Savvas, Amy and Phillip Savopoulos were pronounced dead at the scene. Figueroa was given CPR and transported to a local hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.

Civil rights activist Rachel Dolezal pretending to be black, parents say...

 Controversy has erupted over the racial identity of an NAACP leader in Washington state after her parents told media outlets their daughter is white and has been pretending to be black for years.

Rachel Dolezal, 37, is president of the civil rights organization’s Spokane chapter and teaches Africana studies at Eastern Washington University.
Lawrence and Ruthanne Dolezal, a white couple from Montana, have said in interviews that they are her biological parents. Rachel Dolezal has described herself publicly as biracial and has posted photos of herself online with a black man she identified as her father.

Search for escaped convicts from New York prison enters seventh day...

New York State Police used Facebook on Friday to broadcast a refined description of the convicted killers Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, changing details about their height, weight and hair color, and plastering the site with photographs of their tattoos.
Joyce Mitchell, an industrial training supervisor in the tailor shop at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, was being questioned about her possible role in helping the prisoners escape, authorities said.
Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie told CNN on Friday that Mitchell "provided some form of equipment or tools" to the men whose escape from the maximum security prison was discovered early Saturday.

The High Cost of Keeping Bobbi Kristina Brown Alive...

As Bobbi Kristina Brown fights for her life after being found face-down and unresponsive in her bathtub on Jan. 31, the ongoing struggle is clearly taking an emotional toll on her family. It is also likely taking a growing financial toll. Brown, the 22-year-old daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston, was rushed to North Fulton Hospital in Roswell, Georgia on Jan. 31. She was later moved to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and reportedly transferred to a medical rehabilitation facility at the end of March. As time goes on, the bill for her health care ticks up. But just how much is Brown’s treatment costing? TheWrap spoke to Paul Hughes-Cromwick, senior health economist at the Center for Sustainable Health Spending at the Altarum Institute, which seeks to solve complex systems problems to improve human health, to determine the financial cost. 

Arrested Mount Kinabalu 'nudist' admits 'stupidity'...

A British woman arrested for posing naked on Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu has admitted she was "stupid and disrespectful", her father says. Eleanor Hawkins, 23, from Derbyshire, is among a group of 10 people who stripped before taking photographs at the peak of the mountain on 30 May.
Timothy Hawkins said he expects his daughter, who is "very sorry", to plead guilty in court on Monday.
Malaysian officials said she could be charged with causing public nuisance.

LOL: Dominique Strauss-Kahn acquitted of 'aggravated pimping'...

A French court has acquitted former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of procuring prostitutes for sex parties in France, Belgium and the US.

Mr Strauss-Kahn stood alongside 13 co-defendants, most of whom were acquitted with "aggravated pimping".He has always denied knowing that some of the women who took part in orgies he attended were prostitutes.
The sexual habits of the former French presidential hopeful were at the centre of trial hearings in Lille in February. The verdict brings to a close four years of legal proceedings against Mr Strauss-Kahn, including charges of attempted rape which were later dropped in 2012.