Turkey's parliament has approved controversial constitutional amendments that lift a decades-old ban on women wearing Islamic head scarves at universities.

The seven anti-discrimination laws currently in place in Sweden will soon be combined into one all-encompassing law.

Protesters angry with the Bolivian government's efforts to rewrite the country's constitution have taken to the streets in violent demonstrations in Sucre that killed at least three people including a police officer.

A leading Russian lawmaker has called for constitutional changes that would allow President Vladimir Putin to serve a third term. Sergei Mironov, the speaker of the upper house of parliament, said the two-term limit should be scrapped and the presidential term extended from four to at least five years.

A day before Egyptians are to vote in a controversial referendum on constitutional changes, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice says she told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak about her concerns over the progress of democratic reform in Egypt.