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Angelina Jolie Praises UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award Winners

The 2014 winner of UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award is the Colombian women’s rights group, Red Mariposas de Alas Nuevas Construyendo Futuro – or Butterflies w...

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Bollywood

Aamir Khan, Karan Johar Come Together For Women Empowerment

As part of the seventh anniversary this October, fashion magazine Vogue is launching a new initiative to support women empowerment. The activity aims to raise awareness and...

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Health

Put the Physical in Education

When confronted with an overly active child, many exasperated teachers and parents respond the same way: “Sit still!” It might be more effective, though, to enc...

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Environment

We?re saving the ozone layer, but climate change is a different matter

The most environmental successful treaty ever, the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which banned CFCs, is bearing fruit A t last, there?s some good news. The Earth?s vital ozone lay...

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Sustainable Development

The sanitation challenge

The U.N. set the Millennium Development Goals or the MDG between 2000 and 2015. Goals 4 and 7 was to halve the number of people without access to improved water or sanitati...

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Hollywood

Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon join forces in fight against cancer

It was a bit of a BFF fest in California last night as Hollywood’s actors, actresses and singers came out to support a cancer charity. Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Ani...

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Bollywood

Indian actress Kalki Koechlin ‘brilliant’ in role as disabled student in Margarita, with a Straw

Kalki Koechlin has announced herself as one of India’s finest actresses with a brilliant performance as an aspiring songwriter afflicted by cerebral palsy in Shonali ...

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Health

Childhood Diet Habits Set in Infancy, Studies Suggest

Efforts to improve what children eat should begin before they even learn to walk, a series of nutritional studies published on Tuesday has found. Taken together, the data i...

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Environment

Centre finally wakes up and decides to study extreme weather events after Kashmir floods

Following India experiencing "extreme weather events" in regular intervals ? Leh cloudburst in 2010, Uttarakhand tragedy in 2013 and now unusually heavy rain and floods in ...

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Sustainable Development

Poverty Makes Minority Kids More Vulnerable To Abuse

Children belonging to minority communities face increased risk of maltreatment due to exposure to poverty, says a U.S.-based study.
Poverty – rather than biased ...

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