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What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

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Environment

US Catholics Ready To Follow Pope's 'Marching Orders' On Climate Change

Leaders of the Catholic church in America took their ?marching orders? from the pope?s encyclical on Thursday, fanning out to Congress and the White House to push for actio...

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Sustainable Development

Engineers Stumble On A Whole New Method Of Laser-Based Spacecraft Propulsion

A team of Chinese physicists has developed a new variety of light-based propulsion system with the ability to harness much greater forces than a conventional solar sail. Th...

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Gender

Selfie With Daughter'

The unique intiative by a village sarpanch in Haryana, known for its dismal sex ratio, has taken the state from notoriety to fame, overnight. In January, Narendra Modi laun...

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Hollywood

Rockers, Actors Unite On London Catwalk For Male Cancer Awareness.

From veteran shock rocker Alice Cooper to model David Gandy, men from the world of fashion, film and music united on the catwalk to raise awareness about male cancer. Chari...

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Bollywood

Sonakshi Sinha Stands Against A Cruel Ritual In Tamil Nadu.

Sonakshi Sinha has always been vocal about social issues and now the actress has stood for animals who become victims of a cruel practice. Tamil Nadu is infamous for a ritu...

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Health

The Misconceptions About Mental Illness We Need To Unlearn.

Mental illness isn’t like a sinus infection. You can’t just wait it out or take a pill to make everything go away. Our brains are complex and enigmatic, and men...

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Hollywood

Downton Abbey Star Visits Syrian Refugees In Lebanon.

Downton Abbey star Laura Carmichael has joined the campaign calling on world leaders to back a fund to ensure children trapped in emergencies do not miss out on education. ...

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Environment

Climate Activists Occupy Tate Modern In Dramatic Protest Over BP Sponsorship Of The Arts

On Saturday, activists occupied Tate Modern and staged a 25-hour “textual intervention” at the museum’s Turbine Hall to protest against Tate’s ongoi...

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Hollywood

Elton John AIDS Foundation Marks Global Parents Day

To mark Global Parents Day, the Elton John AIDS Foundation joined forces with a representative of the US government at a private event on Monday 1 June celebrating their co...

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