Saudi teenage girl creates headscarf emoji

A Saudi teenager living in Germany has created a headscarf emoji and put forward the idea to tech chiefs.

Rayouf Alhumedhi, 15, from Berlin, has sent her plan to the The Unicode Consortium, which develops the popular characters used around the world.

If approved, the emoji will be available next year and has already attracted widespread support including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

Rayouf told the BBC: “In this day and age, representation is extremely important.

“There are so many Muslim women in this world who wear the headscarf. It might seem trivial but it's different when you see yourself on the keyboard around the world. Once you experience that, it's really great.”