The U.S. Supreme Court last March rebuffed an emergency request by North Carolina Republicans to allow the use in November's congressional elections of an electoral map they drew that a lower court invalidated for unlawfully disadvantaging Democrats.

At her death, the queen was head of state of 14 countries outside Britain, including nations in the Caribbean exploited by the slave trade.

Media entrepreneur Byron Allen, who is Black, has accused McDonald's of instituting a "racially discriminatory contracting process" in a lawsuit first filed in May 2021.

For years, Aracely Sanchez went to work without counting her hours, always fearful she could lose her job from one day to the next.

A senior Chinese official on Saturday warned people to avoid physical contact with foreigners so as to prevent getting the monkeypox infection.

The measure from the Department of Consumer Protection and Defense effectively prohibits the sale of all iPhone 12 and 13 models.

Tesla Inc's lawyers on Wednesday will urge a California judge to throw out a lawsuit by the state's civil rights agency accusing the electric car maker of widespread race discrimination at an assembly plant.

A U.S. federal judge on Monday rejected Goldman Sachs Group Inc's bid to dismiss most of a 12-year-old class action alleging widespread bias against women in pay and promotions, and said the case will finally go to trial next June.

Workplace romance: four questions to ask yourself before dating someone from the office

Inherited from the British colonial era, section 377A of Singapore's penal code penalises sex between men with up to two years in jail.

Ancient Indian sport builds bridges across cultures in Hong Kong

Thousands of Unification Church members gathered in Seoul on Thursday to protest what they call discriminatory and unfair Japanese media coverage of their church since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination.

The author Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times, on August 12, on stage at a literary festival in New York state.

America's tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India's ancient caste system, with Apple emerging as an early leader in policies to rid Silicon Valley of a rigid hierarchy that's segregated Indians for generations.

Portugal's border agency SEF has faced criticism for delays in issuing post-Brexit ID cards to thousands of British nationals in the country, putting the spotlight on a structural problem that has affected various other migrant communities for years.

Men who have sex with men are at the highest risk of infection right now from monkeypox, according to the WHO.

The centuries-old mines stirring Japan-South Korea tensions

Drivers as well as fans have been reporting incidents of abuse from recent F1 events.

South Korea is beefing up security for high-profile figures in light of the assassination of Japan's former premier Shinzo Abe, officials said on Tuesday, including for an LGBTQ pride parade that the new U.S.

Mark Rowley, Britain's former counter-terrorism police chief who led investigations into a series of attacks in 2017, was on Friday named the new head of London's beleaguered police force, which is reeling from a series of shocking failings and revelations.

Years-long travel bans and asset freezes against some of Egypt's most prominent activists are being used to muzzle civil society and are exacting lasting damage on the personal lives of those targeted, according to two reports by human rights groups.

London on Saturday celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first Pride parade, marking half a century of progress in the fight for equality and tolerance but with warnings for more to be done.

Lewis Hamilton has urged F1 and the media not to entertain views of the older generation, as they are not aware of the direction the sport is taking.

Unions give employees a voice – both as individuals and as a collective – that is independent of their employer.

The recognition of a safe and healthy work environment as a human right is a first step, but not an end in itself.

Australia's sex discrimination commissioner has called for urgent changes in the country's mining industry after a state government report found that sexual harassment and assault were rife in the sector.

Britain will launch talks over a new free trade deal with six Gulf states including Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and charities warned it not to ignore human rights in its latest bid to grow non-EU ties after Brexit.

A court in Japan in its latest order has upheld the ban imposed on same-sex marriage in the country stating that the ban does not violate the constitution.

Three taxpayers challenged the law in 2019, saying it amounted to sex discrimination in violation of the state's constitution.

Although three-quarters of Japanese firms have one or two female directors, only 5% have three or more, according to index data from MSCI.