Italy's top court has opened a probe into a sentence by an Ancona appeals court that found the victim in a rape case was "too ugly to be raped".

Join us for coverage and a round-up of events taking place to mark International Women's Day.

This year's official theme is #BalanceforBetter - but there are many unofficial events taking place too.

Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg and Sweden were the only countries which scored 100 in the World Bank index, meaning they gave women and men equal legal rights.

The measure has been decried by pro-choice campaigners and opposition parties as not going far enough.

The calls came after it emerged that both platforms have hosted a Saudi Arabian government app that allowed men to track women’s activity.

The European Parliament agreed a resolution condemning the detention and torture of women activists in Saudi Arabia. Now is the time for action. The world should not turn its back on wrongfully imprisoned women like Eman Al Nafjan.

A hundred years ago, on January 19, 2019, German women were allowed to vote and be elected for the first time in history on a national level. As many as 37 of them even won seats at the national assembly.

On Sunday, the Saudi government announced they would start notifying women if their husbands filed for divorce via text message, which activists call "technological progress" rather than real progress.

Yann Moix, an award-winning French author made the comments in an interview with Marie Claire magazine.