Some may argue the point, but FHM magazine has declared Megan Fox to be the sexiest woman in the world. The actress tops their 2008 Sexiest Woman list. The 21 year old Transformer’s star received the most votes in the world poll of FHM readers.

An Italian man has been sentenced to 10 days in jail and ordered to pay a 40 euro ($63) fine for staring at a woman on a train, national media reported on Friday.

More than 1,800 people perished in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005—the largest hurricane death toll in the United States since 1928. For the most vulnerable—the urban poor with little money, no transportation and limited resources—Katrina threatened to take everything.

There are women who are unlucky in their love life. They are usually women at age 30 and over. One can divide them into several groups for convenience.

Nearly 18 percent of the members of parliament, worldwide, are women, according to a new study released this week as the Inter-Parliamentary Union meets in South Africa. The report says many of the barriers that have kept women from parliament are gone, but that much more needs to be done for women to be on an equal footing with men.

Dignitaries from around the world gathered in Washington Sunday to launch an ambitious project aimed at ending global poverty among women.

The research, conducted by University of Wisconsin’s Kathleen Dolan, examined the National Election Study (NES) data, which provided information about voters’ reactions to female candidates and whether gender affinity was related to the election booth decision. The findings provided interesting results.

The clinical and basic science research findings of nearly two dozen studies are being presented by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh-affiliated Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) at the 55th annual meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI).

It might be surprising that 40,275 grams of slime, 4,030 ink dots, 3,876 M&Ms, 977 baby diapers, 489 cups of milk and a few electrified pickles can make a difference in the academic lives of adolescent girls, but it’s true.

A woman in the U.S. state of Kansas became stuck to her toilet after sitting on it for two years, local media said on Thursday.

The woman, named as Ashley Alexandra Dupre at the heart of the Eliot Spitzer scandal is a 22-year-old would-be singer from New Jersey, The New York Times reported Wednesday.