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For the first time, some 250 female sex workers in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta have been given life insurance cover by a state-owned company.
Activists think this is a step forward in sex workers’ long campaign to have the profession...
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More than half of the teenage girls removed from a polygamist sect in Eldorado, Texas, are either mothers or currently pregnant, US officials say.
All 463 children on the Yearning For Zion Ranch were taken into care after allegations of sexual abuse...
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not...
It was a mistake to allow Chinese secret police to guard the Olympic torch during its London relay, Mayor Ken Livingstone has admitted.
A tiny operating table has been devised by scientists to carry out nerve surgery on the best understood worm on the planet.
Israeli forces killed four Palestinian militants and four civilians, including an 11-year-old boy, in assaults on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, the Islamist faction and medical officials said.
The operations near the communities of el...
Billions of pounds flow into the Exchequer by stealth but it is not the middle classes who are losing out, it is those with the lowest incomes.
Twenty years ago, a single manual worker on half the average earnings would, if they lost their job, get...
Astronomers have discovered a distant “twin” solar system which looks very similar to our own.
So far researchers have identified two planets very similar to Jupiter and Saturn, which orbit a star about half the size of the Sun around 5,000...
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