Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A girl wearing a headscarf is pictured in the Rosensteinschule school in Stuttgart. Muslim girls under the age of 14 will no ...

Austrian lawmakers on Thursday voted by a large majority to approve a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14, a move that is now facing criticism from experts and human rights groups.

Austria’s centrist government passed the new law, which takes effect next year, after years of pressure from the far right. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Berlin Austrian schoolgirls will ...