World Hijab Day is a good time to acknowledge that states such as Saudi Arabia peddle an extreme form of the religion, says TP O’Mahony.

A French TV journalist said today she was punched and roughed up, then sexually assaulted while covering protests in Egypt’s Tahrir Square.

A media watchdog has advised news organisations to stop sending women to Egypt after two reports of sex attacks on female journalists.

EGYPT’S military rulers apologised for the deaths of demonstrators at the hands of police, while insisting elections will go ahead next week as planned.