Five Billion People Have No access to Surgery

Two-thirds of the world's population have no access to safe and affordable surgery, according to a new study in The Lancet - more than double the number in previous estimat...

Dutch Government Taken To Court On Climate Change

Campaigners in the Netherlands are taking the government to court for allegedly failing to protect its citizens from climate change.
The class action lawsuit, involvin...

Professor Green Is Named Patron Of Male Suicide Prevention Charity, Calm

The singer-songwriter is taking over the post from comedian David Biddies, who held the position for seven years. Calm (Campaign Against Living Miserably) supported more th...

What Do 13 of the Strongest Women on TV Have in Common? They’re All Tatiana Maslany

Orphan Black’s star creates clones with endless individuality

The short years ago, Tatiana Maslany was an up-and-coming actress with improv comedy chops, so...

Unfreedom, A Film That Was Banned By The Censors, Is Now Using That As Its USP

We’ve done it again. Only two days after India failed its LGBT populace by voting against benefits for same-sex partners for UN staff, it was reported on Saturday tha...

About two-thirds of world’s population suffers tooth decay

A new study has sounded the alarm on the dental health status of people. The report, published in the Journal of Dental Research, says that more than 2.4 billion people acr...

7 Unasked Questions On A Ban

Augustine Veliath

India’s Daughter was banned. Let us look at seven unasked questions in this debate. Was banning the film a knee jerk reac...

Under the Dome: The climate film taking China by storm

Only in China would a documentary on air pollution garner more than 100 million views in less than 48 hours. Renowned investigative journalist Chai Jing has been widely pra...

Synthetic vaccine sought to finally eradicate polio

An international team of scientists is to try to develop a wholly artificial vaccine to combat polio.

The disease is very...