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Impassioned wrangling over changing the way the military prosecutes sex assaults pits the 20 women in the Senate against each other in a thorny political battle over an institution where chain of command is sacred.

Pigs cluster around a food stall like Black Friday shoppers waiting for the store to open.

The great-great granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst followed in her ancestral footsteps today by leading a feminist march through London.

Beef recalled earlier this year from a California meat producer may have reached 35 states and Guam, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.

Waitrose confirmed it has native strawberries in selected stores in time for what is predicted to be the hottest day of the year tomorrow, with temperatures reaching 18C , a week earlier than last year.

Two women's beer organizations, the Pink Boots Society from the United States and Project Venus from the United Kingdom, have teamed up to create a global, all-female brew day on March 8 in order to raise awareness of women in the industry.

A series of events to mark the role of women during the First World War are to take place this month, coinciding with International Women's Day.

The British Heart Foundation said too few women are aware that it is the biggest killer of women and more needs to be done to raise awareness that it is not just a man's disease.

The potential 2016 presidential candidate galvanized the U.N. commemoration of International Women's Day, repeating her resounding declaration as first lady at the 1995 U.N. women's conference in Beijing that "human rights are women's rights - and women's rights are human rights."

Waitrose has declared itself the winner with its produce grown in glasshouses in Chichester arriving in-store today but Tesco is close on its heels with its strawberries, also grown in West Sussex, arriving tomorrow.

Its $310 tasting menu makes Per Se one of New York City's most expensive restaurants, but its "C'' grade from health inspectors puts it near the bottom of the heap when it comes to sanitary violations.

Bowing to the Pentagon, the Senate agreed after impassioned debate Thursday to leave the authority to prosecute rapes and other serious crimes with military commanders in a struggle that highlighted the growing role of women in Congress.

The first time Margaret Ann Horn broke out in an odd rash, she blamed it on the sumac she had cleared at her farm in Leipers Fork.

Republican elected officials got a chance to try their hand at humor today. We look at how Reaganesque their zingers were.

Next time you order Chinese food, you may want to pay close attention to the numbers on your fortune cookie.

Not long ago, I made a marble pound cake. Marble pound cake requires making a vanilla batter, adding chocolate to half of it, and then swirling the batters together in a pan.

The Royal Canadian Legion is set to call on the Harper government to take better care of wounded veterans and their families.

Flansburg, who farms 1,900 acres amid the rolling hills of southeastern Washington, has been increasing the amount of the chickpeas used to make hummus by about one-third each year to take advantage of good prices and demand.

Diets low in saturated fat do not prevent heart disease or improve health and instead public health warnings need to be issued over sugar, a leading scientist has said.

Another member of state-funded Russia Today made waves on Wednesday - not by standing behind Moscow, as the news network is wont to do, but by bucking it.