This is the moment a Spanish politician gets shut down after donning a burka ahead of a vote on its use in public. Virginia Martinez covered herself up from head to toe to enter the chamber to the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days - cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange the ...

PARIS — France's hotly debated bill to ban burqa-style Islamic veils in public is going before parliament, with President Nicolas Sarkozy's government casting the measure as a way to promote equality ...