Kuwait elects first women MPs

Kuwaitis have voted for change in the country's second election in one year by electing the first four women candidates to the parliament, which has been male-dominated for almost half a century.The vote on Saturday was the third in just under three years after Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah dissolved the outgoing parliament in March following a standoff between MPs and the government.Kuwaitis voted 21 new members into the 50-seat parliament and reduced Sunni Muslim groups to a minority as the country grapples with political turmoil that has frozen the country's economy.Massuma al-Mubarak, one of the four women elected, was first by a large margin among the 10 top positions elected to the parliament from her district.