23 Shocking News Stories from Around the World
Expand your horizons with 23 international stories you don't want to miss.
Surrogate Mothers: Womb for Rent
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pregnant indian women
Customer service, tech support ... these days we outsource everything to India. So why not pregnancy? \r\n\r\nHere is a report on the growing number of Indian women willing to carry an American child.
The Billionaire\'s Black Sheep
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nicole buffet in her art studio
What\'s it like when your grandpa is the richest man in the world? For Nicole Buffett, it means forgoing cable TV and health insurance and making do on $40,000 a year.\r\nHere, she dishes on her upbringing and why her grandfather Warren Buffett disowned her.
She Lives Off What We Throw Away
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leia mondragon is a freegan
Freegans are neither homeless nor destitute. They are committed radical environmentalists (typically vegan) who reject our wasteful consumer culture by living almost entirely on what others throw away. \r\nEverything inside Leia MonDragon\'s apartment — from the coffee maker to daughter Uma\'s rompers — was salvaged from the trash. Learn more about her lifestyle.
When the Suicide Bomber Is a Woman
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captured suicide bomber\'s vest
On the day before she set out to blow up the Sri Lankan prime minister, Menake went shopping for a sequined top to hide the vest full of explosives that would turn her into a human bomb.\r\nIt was the cyanide necklace that gave her away.\r\n
Vigilantes in Pink
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gulabi gang in india
Fed up with abusive husbands and corrupt officials, India\'s poorest women are banding together, taking up arms, and fighting back. Even more shocking than the pink saris they wear: Their quest for justice is actually working.\r\nRead more about the Gulabi Gang, or \"pink gang.\"\r\n
Lessons in Love: The Millionaire Hunters
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four students sucking lollipops at the geisha school in moscow
In the new Russia, a country obsessed with wealth and status, snagging a superrich man is big business — and so are the outrageous classes that claim to give women a leg up.\r\nLearn more about Yulia Varra\'s seduction school in Moscow.
How Microloans Are Helping Women in Bangladesh
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bangladesh woman
Women are transforming one of the poorest, most corrupt countries on the planet.\r\nMarie Claire\'s roving correspondent sheds light on the subject.
Survival Sex: Iraqi Refugees
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iragi refugee prostitutes
Imagine: One day you\'re a nurse leading a quiet middle-class life; a few years later you\'re in a strange country doing the unthinkable: selling yourself. For some Iraqi refugees, prostitution is the only trick they feel they\'ve got left.\r\nHear the story of Malek, a 34-year-old from Karbala, who found herself desperate.
The Truth Behind Indian Call Centers
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indian call center
With many major U.S. companies outsourcing telephone operations to India, call-center agents are a symbol of our globalized age. \r\nCheck out how economic tension has turned Indian customer-service reps into shrinks.
Love in the Time of Terror
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malika el aroud
She was a single mom; he was divorced and searching. Together they kindled an epic passion for each other — and jihad.\r\nMarie Claire tells Malika el Aroud’s exceptional love story.
The FBI\'s Most Wanted Woman
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child with poster of aaifia
Shadowy details of her case have inspired protests around the world — particularly among Muslim women who are convinced Siddiqui spent the last five years in American custody at a northern Afghanistan air base, being tortured.\r\nIs Aafia Siddiqui a vicious terrorist or the victim of extreme identity theft?
Field of Panties: Immigrant Workers
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immigrant workers in field
Over 400,000 women work in U.S. fields, nurseries, and packing plants. Attracted to the U.S. by jobs that pay about $11,000 a year — three times what they can make in Mexico or Central America — these women are frequent victims of sexual harassment and rape.\r\nSee who is eradicating the sexual assault and harassment of female farm workers.
The Preacher\'s Unholy Past
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melissa scott barbie bridges
Pastor Melissa Scott presides over a televangelist empire. Hard to believe that she was once a triple-X plaything known as Barbie Bridges. \r\nGretchen Voss uncovers the true story behind Scott\'s divine intervention.
Cougars in the Classrooms
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internet search box
The Web has made it easy for sex-hungry teachers to hook up with their students.\r\nBlame law enforcement for making it almost acceptable.\r\n
I Married a Terrorist
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spain train bombings terrorism
When Maureen\'s husband told her he was traveling abroad to help a friend, she believed him. Until the police came knocking. They wanted him in connection with the 2004 Madrid bombings. \r\nIn a Marie Claire exclusive, the 24-year-old tells how she fell for the wrong man.
Please Set Me Free
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long necked women of thailand kayan tribe
Forced to serve as a tourist attraction in a human zoo, the long-neck women of Thailand want to cast off their coils and live modern lives like the rest of us — if only the government would let them.\r\nFew tourists are aware of the scandalous situation, Zember (left) explains, because the women\'s wages are docked if they discuss their plight. So they \"smile and say nothing.\"
America\'s Hungriest Woman
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competitive eating champion sonya thomas
Sonya Thomas is petite and lithe, but her stomach can hold 18 pounds of food.\r\nRead Marie Claire\'s Q & A with the binge queen.
Afghani Women Get Physical
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afghani woman
When you think of Afghanistan, images of rock-hard abs and Stairmasters aren\'t the first things that leap to mind.\r\nTake a look inside Afghanistan\'s first and only gym for women.\r\n
Beauty and the Beast
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Female Spanish bullfighter Ana Infante
She\'s been gored more than once, but Spanish bullfighter Ana Infante knows how to stand her ground.\r\nGender is no obstacle.
Fighting for Mothers
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christy turlington goes to washington
In some parts of the world, getting pregnant is a death sentence. But Marie Claire\'s contributing editor Christy Turlington Burns is out to change that. \r\nHere, she describes her efforts to gather support in Congress.
Born into the Japanese Mob
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japanese tattooed mother with her baby
Born into Japan\'s most notorious crime syndicate, Shoko Tendo is struggling to break free of her violent legacy. \r\nMarie Claire\'s Abigail Haworth met the marked woman in Tokyo.
Italian Murder Mystery
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italian exchange student murder
Studying abroad should have been a grand adventure. Instead, Amanda Knox has spent a year in jail, accused by a corrupt legal system of murdering her roommate.\r\nRead her story and what her mother had to say about the corruption.
Dangerous Liaisons
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man and woman on a date woman is pulling on man\'s tie
Wealthy American businessmen in Hong Kong are getting robbed, blackmailed, even killed — by girls who spike their drinks with the date-rape drug. Even worse, the ladies are getting away with it.\r\nWe dug up the dirt on this potentially lethal crime.
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