Stories of courage and repression, and the tools defending civil liberties at the 17th Annual Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway.

In effect, he became a test case—an unwitting experiment in just how far Sweden ... hits especially hard for Muslim women who wear the hijab. About 45% of Muslim women under the age of 30 ...

Fatima Payman is the first senator to wear a hijab inside Australia's parliament, according to local media.(X - @SenatorPayman) Senator Fatima Payman -- who said she does not drink alcohol ...

Like all the women interviewed in this story who were not wearing a headscarf, Laylah did not provide her last name for fear of repercussions for defying her country's hijab laws. 'We young ...

The Afghan-born senator, who made history as the first parliamentarian to wear a hijab in the Australian Senate, told national broadcaster ABC that the colleague had “had too many drinks” when ...

The latest experiment from Google Labs is called Portraits. This feature lets you receive coaching from AI representations of real-life experts. The first of these Portraits features author Kim Scott.

MONACO -- Formula 1's two-stop experiment at the Monaco Grand Prix underlined what the sport already knew about its most famous race: the confines of the 94-year-old circuit are too tight to allow ...

As I prepared to take a photograph of an anti-American mural outside of the former U.S. Embassy in Iran’s capital recently, a ...

Egg drop competitions are a staple of high school and college physics classes. The goal is for students to build a device using bubble wrap, straws, or various other materials designed to hold an ...

The writer Melissa Febos has a taste for extremes. Her new book, “The Dry Season,” chronicles a bold experiment in her search for self-knowledge. The writer Melissa Febos has a taste for extremes.

But, aside from some relatively minor Virtual Safety Car interruptions in the early stages, the experiment didn’t really yield any particularly unusual results as the race played out without ...