Born in Soviet Georgia in 1941, Nona Gaprindashvili began playing chess at age five. By 37, she was a grandmaster. The Thomson Reuters Foundation speaks to one of the legends of the chess game

Opposition candidate Maia Sandu has won Moldova's presidential runoff with 56% of the vote, the country's central election commission says. Sandu is in favor of closer ties to the European Union

Kadagidze's candidacy was not supported by only one non-judicial member of the council, Nazi Janezashvili

Fraser joins a small group of women who have broken through the glass ceiling to reach the C-suite at major financial firms

The "brave women of Belarus," led by opposition figures Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Maryya Kalesnikava and Veranika Tsapkala have been nominated in the European Parliament for this year’s Sakharov Prize

The coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by the researchers of Oxford University has shown extremely encouraging results in its early trials and with this, the team at Jenner Institute has taken one more step closer to find a vaccine for COVID-19

Michele Rubirola pledges to clean up Mediterranean port city, which has suffered from pollution, municipal strikes, violence and poverty

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike scored a landslide victory in an election for a second term, as the city tries to keep a fresh surge of Covid-19 in check and maintain hopes of hosting the Olympics in 2021

The NASA official who managed the inaugural private crewed flight into space last month has been promoted to become the first female head of human spaceflight, the agency said, as it prepares to return people to the Moon in 2024