21.   A criminal court here sentenced a Kuwaiti woman to ten years in jail for battering her housemaid to death with her shoe, the Kuwait Times daily said Monday.

22.   Dozens of Kuwaiti women on Tuesday demanded the right to vote in a protest staged outside parliament.

23.   Kuwaiti women are stepping up their campaign for the right to vote in parliamentary elections next year.

24.   The Kuwaiti woman told the court the maid had refused to clean the house when asked.