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Health

Factbox: Women's Health - From Maternal Mortality To Child Marriage

COPENHAGEN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Over 5,000 delegates from 150 countries arrive in Copenhagen this week for Women Deliver - a major global conference on the health, r...

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Sustainable Development

New Stem Cell Discovery Could Boost Corn Crop Yields By An Astounding 50 Percent

A newly discovered stem cell signaling pathway could boost yields from corn and other staple crops by up to 50 percent in the very near term, according to a paper published Mo...

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Environment

It's Already Looking Like 2016 Will Be The Hottest Year On Record

How long can the hot streak last?Global average temperatures set a seventh straight monthly record in April, and it wasn't even close, according to NASA figures. Last month's ...

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Festivals

Marlin Kirby And The Chicago Caribbean Film Festival

Marlin Kirby has been involved in the entertainment industry because he loves acting and films fascinate him. He decided to take his passion for film and create the Chicago Ca...

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Bollywood

No More Lampooning, Bollywood Embraces Gay Characters

There was a time when films such as Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya (1998) lampooned people from the LGBT community through characters who were manily sidekicks, had overtly feminine ...

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Hollywood

Bally To Host Charity Music Night For Delete Blood Cancer DKMS In L.A.

Music lovers will surely be in heaven at Bally in Beverly Hills on Tuesday evening, when the heritage Swiss luxury brand hosts a soiree to support DKMS, the world’s larg...

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Trending

Old Toys Get Donated Limbs To Teach Kids About Organ Transplants

While organ donation is vital, in some countries such as Japan the issue still doesn't receive much attention. Figures in Japan show that for every 14,000 people on the trans...

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Gender

Killing Norway To Allow People To Change Gender By Simply 'Ticking A Box', With Children As Young As Six Able To Swap w Without Any Medical Procedure Under Proposed Rules

Norway will allow people to change gender by simply 'ticking a box' with children as young six able to swap without any medical procedure under proposed rules.The new bill wil...

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Health

What's Killing The World's Teenagers? Road Accidents, Suicide, Floods

The leading cause of death among teenagers in the U.S. is road accidents — killing nearly 5,000 American kids between the ages of 10 and 19 in 2013. Suicide also emerge...

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Human Rights

Untold Thousands Of Patients Misdiagnosed As Vegetative Are Actually Aware. Theirs Is The Civil Rights Fight Of Our Times

Seasoned nurse came up to me after a lecture I’d given at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She seemed shaken by my talk and I was surprised. She worke...

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POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024