Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...

The report comes after women were left laying in rubble for hours, waiting for female rescuers following an earthquake.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Sept 28 (Reuters Life!) - A model strutting the catwalk is hardly revolutionary in most countries, but Afghan television's answer to "America's Next Top Model" is breaking ...