Women competed for the first time at the 1900 Games in Paris. Of a total of 997 athletes, 22 women competed in five sports: tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrianism and golf. The IOC is committed to ...

French authorities were hunting Tuesday for a 17-day-old prematurely born baby boy who was abducted from the maternity ward ...

An Italian surfer has died after being impaled in the chest by a sharp-billed fish while surfing off Indonesia’s West Sumatra ...

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire. Available now Weekend Woman’s Hour: Lesley Manville, Breast cancer drug,… ...