MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Sept 28 (Reuters Life!) - A model strutting the catwalk is hardly revolutionary in most countries, but Afghan television's answer to "America's Next Top Model" is breaking ...

In 2005, Mauda Rahmati, crowned Mrs. Afghanistan, went on a journey that transcended the traditional bounds of beauty contests. As the first woman to represent Afghan women on the global stage, she ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – She had always loved to paint and draw, something it appeared the little girl from Afghanistan might never do again after she mistakenly picked up a grenade outside her ...

The Taliban’s latest crackdown on Afghanistan’s underground beauty salons is more than the closure of a business, it is the silencing of one of the last spaces where women could breathe, earn, and ...

NEW YORK — Afghanistan, a country whose government once outlawed women from showing any part of their body in public, is welcoming its first beauty school. Scheduled to be renovated by the end of ...