The United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, has appointed Blaise Metreweli as its chief, meaning it will be led by a female for the first time in its history.

Blaise Metreweli has been appointed the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, 30 years after Judi Dench played a fictional female MI6 chief in the James Bond films.

Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6, will be led by a woman for the first time in its history, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced.

Britain on Sunday named Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer, as the first female head of the Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign spy service known as MI6.

The House of Commons has been forced to apologise after allowing a transgender woman to use female-only toilets despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that protects single-sex spaces. Robin Moira ...

June 14 (Reuters) - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first female president of Nicaragua, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of 95, her family announced in a statement.

Lizzie Montague reeled in a blue marlin weighing 449.7 pounds on Wednesday in the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. (Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament) ...

Sports Female athletes appeal landmark NCAA settlement, saying it violates federal antidiscrimination law Published: Jun. 12, 2025, 7:54 a.m.

Eight female athletes filed an appeal Wednesday of a landmark NCAA antitrust settlement, arguing that women would not receive their fair share of $2.7 billion in back pay for athletes who were ...

Female athletes filed an appeal challenging the NCAA settlement and claiming it would unfairly distribute $2.7 billion to benefit football and men's basketball.

House v. NCAA settlement payments on hold amid legal challenge from female athletes on Title IX grounds The case marks the first formal appeal filed since the historic settlement was finalized on ...

Research led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics has confirmed that female faces are rated as more attractive than male faces across diverse cultures, ethnicities, and regardless ...