The lowest-altitude match at the Dead Sea comes less than a year after the same group broke the Guinness World Record for the highest-altitude football game played.

Some 8% of respondents had no median gender pay gap, and 14% had a pay gap favouring women.

Former tennis star, John McEnroe has backed the BBC in a gender pay row over the difference between the salary he received for his commentary at the Wimbledon championships, compared to that received by female tennis champion Martina Navratilova.

It's revealed there's a huge gap between what men and women earn.

International Women's Day is also 'Women's Pay Day' according to the UK's Trades Union Congress. It says March 8 is the day when average women effectively start earning, compared to better paid average men.

Thousands of people calling for gender equality marched through central London on Sunday March 4th alongside celebrities, activists and politicians, a century after some British women won the right to vote and ahead of International Women's Day.

Recent developments in the news have shown that equal rights and opportunities for women, let alone basic respect for their bodies, is a battle that has yet to be won, even in what we thought were mor

Lauded as the world leader in gender parity, Iceland is reaping the harvest of a decades-long struggle to give women a fairer deal.

_Insiders_ talks to Virginija Langbakk, Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality. How is Europe doing on gender parity?

Thorgerdur Einarsdóttir is a professor of gender studies at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.

Fríða Rós Valdimarsdóttir heads the Icelandic Women's Rights Association. She believes the battle for equal rights is far from won, even in Iceland.

Hanna Björg Vilhjálmsdóttir teaches gender studies to high school students. She says sensitization to gender discrimination helps them become happier adults.