News: Indonesia will host the 2013 Miss World competition in the country's resort island of Bali and the capital, Jakarta, in September. Miss World organisers have axed the famed bikinis from this year's pageant, replacing them with conservative beach sarongs amid mounting protests from hardline Muslim groups. Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, one of the local organisers, said on Thursday that all contestants will be required to wear Bali's traditional long sarongs…

On June 15 2013, Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi declared that he had severed ties with Bashar al Assad's regime. He said, "We decided today to entirely break off relations with Syria and with the current Syrian regime." Furthermore, Morsi expressed full support for the Syrian people. He said, "The Egyptian people supports the struggle of the Syrian people, materially and morally, and Egypt, its nation, leadership ... and army, will…

On the 6th of June, the UK Guardian published an article under the title, "The rise of ‘breadwinner moms' is less a win for equality than it looks". It was in relation to statistics from a recent report by the PEW Research Centre that in 40% of all US households with children, mothers are the sole or primary breadwinners. The employment rate of married mothers in the US is 65%.…

News: According to the Islamic Republic of Iran's semiofficial Fars News agency report on 1st June 2013, a Taliban political delegation visited Iran. The delegation headed by Tayeb Aagha from the political office of Taliban in Doha, held meetings with the Iranian security officials. The source further adds that the representatives of the Taliban movement particularly Higher Education Minister Muhammad Allah Nomani and Maydan Wardak Governor Shams-ud-Din Pahlawan during Taliban…