Four activists from Ukrainian feminist group Femen stripped off in St Peter's Square today in a protest for gay rights just as Pope Benedict XVI was reciting his traditional weekly Angelus prayer.The four topless women, who had "In Gay We Trust" scrawled on their bodies, staged their protest by the giant Christmas tree in the centre of the square and were briefly detained by Vatican police.Tens of thousands are set to march in France later today to denounce government plans to legalise gay marriage and adoption which have angered many Catholics and Muslims, France's two main faiths.A small protest >>>

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The women were protesting against exploitation in Big Brother Brazil The game show had locked contestants in a 'glass house' in a shopping mallGroup now has over 150,000 members worldwide since it began in 2008They campaign on issues such as women's rights and domestic violence By Daniel Miller PUBLISHED: 13:35 GMT, 9 January 2013 | UPDATED: 14:27 GMT, 9 January 2013 Topless protest group Femen has opened a branch in Brazil with members pictured today being dragged naked from a shopping Mall in Sao Paulo as they demonstrated against exploitation in the Big Brother gameshow.The >>>

In France, members of the protest group have been beaten and detained, but they're using the experience to train for a bigger challenge. Police detain an activist from women's rights group Femen as she protests in front of the Olympic stadium in Kyiv on July 1st, 2012. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters) PARIS -- In mid-November, when Inna Shevchenko, 22, Femen's leader in France, and Oksana Shachko, 25, a veteran Femen activist, heard that the militant Catholic organization Institut Civitas was planning to protest against a proposed law that would legalize same-sex marriage in the country, >>>

  The four young women, stripped to the waist and covered in painted slogans such as "Apocalypse", suddenly exited from an underground rail station and raced briefly across the road towards EU headquarters before being thrown to the ground by a  dozen burly police.  Shouting and screaming in English "Putin go to hell! Democracy, democracy!", they were hauled off in a police van.The "Putin is the Apocalypse" protest lasted only minutes, causing no disruption to an EU-Russia summit being held inside the EU building.  It occurred shortly after Putin's arrival for talks with EU president Herman >>>

Topless activists arrested at Brussels protest By: HP Bureau Moscow: Belgian police have arrested four activists of Ukraine’s Femen movement when they attempted to hold a topless protest in Brussels where the Russia-EU summit is underway. The EUbusiness news portal said that shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the EU headquarters for talks with EU president Herman Van Rompuy >>>

BRUSSELS, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Members of Ukraine's Femen movement staged a topless protest Friday at a summit meeting in Brussels between the European Union and Russia. Shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at EU headquarters for talks, four women -- stripped to the waist and with protest messages painted on their torsos -- began walking toward the building and shouting anti-Putin comments. They were quickly arrested by police, and their demonstration caused no interruption in the conference, the website EUBusiness reported. The Femen movement, established in Ukraine in 2008, is >>>

"Putin is the Apocalypse!" According to the fierce activists of the feminist group FEMEN, neither the Mayan calendar nor the planet Niberiu will cause the world to perish. Instead, they lay the blame on one man: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Four FEMEN activists staged a topless protest against Putin in Brussels on Friday, shouting "Putin go to hell! Democracy, democracy," AFP reports. The Russian president was in the Belgian capital to attend an EU-Russia summit. In a statement on its website, FEMEN said it wanted >>>

Fists flew Wednesday as Ukraine's newly elected parliament devolved into an all-out brawl between government supporters and opposition lawmakers, the Associated Press reports. A parliamentary session had only just begun Thursday when a group from the opposition swarmed the body's podium. According to the AP, lawmakers wrestled with each other and some deputies were knocked over as anger over the controversial practice of voting in place of absent peers boiled over. As the lawmakers attempted to jump onto the podium, an >>>

Fists flew Wednesday as Ukraine's newly elected parliament devolved into an all-out brawl between government supporters and opposition lawmakers, the Associated Press reports. A parliamentary session had only just begun Thursday when a group from the opposition swarmed the body's podium. According to the AP, lawmakers wrestled with each other and some deputies were knocked over as anger over the controversial practice of voting in place of absent peers boiled over. As the lawmakers attempted to jump onto the podium, an >>>