Try cinnamon to give your heart the natural boost!

Cinnamon or dalchini is one of the most common ingredients in Indian cooking. Known for its aromatic and pungent characteristics, cinnamon is often used as a flavoring agen...

Pages from the Diary of a Community Health Worker

It was just another day in the late summer of 1992. Fresh from the success of a community intervention that sought to limit the effects of an outbreak of a gastrointestinal...

Global Waste on Pace to Triple by 2100

The amount of garbage humans throw away is rising fast and won’t peak this century without transformational changes in how we use and reuse materials, write former Wo...

Violence versus Women is an everyday occurrence in cities. Learn what the UN is doing 2 make cities safer

Sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence in public spaces are an everyday occurrence for women and girls around the world—in urban and rural areas, in dev...

Spain grants first asylum to woman victimized by human traffickers

MADRID, Oct. 22 (UPI) — A Nigerian woman who was raped by the human traffickers who brought her to Europe has been granted asylum in Spain, officials say.
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Improve delivery of drugs for cancer treatment

Writer: Emil Venere

 July 8, 2013

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers have developed a concept to potential...

While Congress sleeps

Barack Obama offers stopgap measures to slow global warming

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Leaked Report Spotlights Big Climate Change Assessment

Why the UN’s coming fifth report on global warming is already making waves.

Brian Clark Howard

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Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...