Austria’s burqa ban bites for a man in a shark costume — who was slapped with a fine for covering his face Monday. The unnamed worker was dressed as a mascot outside McShark computer shop in Vienna, ...

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 ...

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There’s a burqa burglar is on the loose in the Big Apple. The NYPD is on the lookout for a burqa-wearing bandit who broke into a Queens home last week and made off with a cache of jewelry — then ...

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 ...

Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban's 'gender apartheid' have adopted the abaya robe favoured in Gulf nations Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching ...

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 ...