Posh UK department store Harvey Nichols has launched
an ad campaign starring Wallace, Gromit, and Wallace's love interest Lady Campanula. • The widespread movement
of rural Australian women moving to urban areas to peruse education and better jobs has lead to a "gender imbalance" all over the country. • The Pet Olympics
are in full swing in Hong Kong. Go Schnauzers! • After Taryn Davis lost her husband to war in Iraq, she decided to make a film
about war widows titled American Widow Project
. •• The U.S. military has announced that it has arrested
an al Qaeda figure who helped in the 2006 kidnapping of journalist Jill Carroll. • A black female physician was blocked
from seeking a DNA test to prove her direct relation to U.S. founding father James Madison by Madison's recognized/white descendants. • With Proposition 8 looming in CA to ban gay marriage, some Mormons are going on the internet
to voice their support for gay marriage. • A new study
conducted by an economics professor at UC Berkeley says that economic, environmental, and war-related stress causes pregnant women to release more hormones and give birth to more girls. • The creator of The Secret Life of the American Teenager
is upset that a PSA urging parents to discuss sex with their kids
is put on at the end of each episode. • Hot Cartoons And The Women Who Could Play Them
: Megan Fox as Pocahontas? Really? • Angelica Alfaro defied the odds and stereotypes surrounding children of Mexican immigrants by attending and graduating
from a college and not having children. • A guideline for members of district councils in England has cautioned council-members
against using phrases like "man on the street" and "manning the switchboard" because they are "offensive" to women. • Rosie Swale Pope, a 61-year-old grandmother in England has just returned
from her 5-year, 20,000-mile run around the world. • The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has pardoned 3 men accused of brutally gang raping
a woman with a bayonet after she complained that they kidnapped her son. •
