Former Texas Monthly editor Paul Burka discusses his selections for Best and Worst Legislators at a Texas Tribune event in 2013. He died Sunday. (Bob Daemmrich For The Texas Tribune, Bob Daemmrich For ...

The parties on the right are accused of looking to see which is "the more fascist". Even if parliament passes the motion (which it probably will), it will have no direct legal effect, as it is a ...

Discussions around face coverings such as the burka have been reignited after a Reform UK MP's question in parliament. (Getty) Employers should be able to decide if their staff can wear burkas in the ...

Pauline Hanson wore a burka in the Senate chamber in Canberra - Mick Tsikas/AAP Australian right-wing politician Pauline Hanson was suspended from the Senate on Tuesday after donning a burka in the ...

FACE veils are worn by some Muslim women in accordance with certain Islamic traditions that insist on “modesty” in public. There have been calls to ban them in the UK – and Boris Johnson got into hot ...

Fierce has been the uproar surrounding the French National Assembly’s recent efforts to outlaw the wearing of the burka (a full veil that masks a woman’s face and body, worn by some Muslim women).

A few years ago, someone from the Feminist Majority Foundation called the Muslim Women’s League to ask if she could “borrow a burka” for a photo shoot the organization was doing to draw attention to ...

A caped crusader is on the loose in the mountains of Pakistan, but she's not your traditional superhero. The Burka Avenger wears a flowing black veil — only her brown eyes are visible — as she fights ...

Parisians were up on arms Thursday when they found out that Gisele Bundchen and her little sister wore a full burka, the traditional Muslim clothing, to disguise themselves while on the streets of ...

(CBS News) The outfit of the world's newest superhero is sparking reaction around the globe. Pakistani television's "Burka Avenger" is a teacher who fights crime, slaying extremists with books. Her ...

Morris Burka Jr., a New Orleans businessman who was active in a host of causes, including many in the Jewish community, died Thursday at St. Anna's Residence of heart failure. He was 90. A lifelong ...