As the Taliban takes one province after another while closing in on Kabul, prices for the all-concealing burqas are skyrocketing as Afghan women don't want to be targeted by the hard-line Islamist ...

A 28-year-old woman became the first person in Denmark fined for wearing a face veil under a controversial new law banning the garment in public, Danish media reported. A fight erupted and cops were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man suffering from leukaemia and forced to wear a medical mask to protect his immune system was stopped by Austrian police under ...

2002-02-09 04:00:00 PDT Kabul, Afghanistan-- In a photo shop on the busy Karte Parwan street in downtown Kabul, a woman wrapped in a light-blue burqa stared at me. A minute passed, but she kept ...

He was a victim of Jaws and order. A man in a costume advertising an electronics shop called McShark in Austria found out his country’s controversial new “burqa ban” has some teeth, hardly a week ...