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Environment

After The Rain - A new documentary about how women farmers are coping with climate change

Despite their many differences in attitude, the four women all share the same sky and all of them are experiencing the same fears and challenges that come with climate chan...

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Health

Genetic testing raises hope for lung cancer treatments

Offering genetic testing to lung cancer patients can potentially save lives, research suggests.

A study of 5,000 patients found genetic profiling of lung tumours bo...

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Sustainable Development

Sex and Equality: How women fare around the world

For eight years the World Economic Forum has released a ranking of how women are narrowing the gap compared to men in the terms of political participation, economic opportu...

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Sustainable Development

Intangible cultural heritage: A force for sustainable development

No society can flourish without culture – and no development can be sustainable without it. Culture holds answers to many of the challenges societies face today. Awar...

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Health

India’s gender gap record among the world’s worst

MUMBAI: A plummeting child sex ratio is largely to blame for India’s poor performance in the 2013 Global Gender Gap Index released by the World Economic Forum. India ...

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Bill Gates Talks To Author Of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” Katherine Boo

Bill Gates: How did you pick the particular slum and the people that you profiled in the book?

Katherine Boo: Although I’d been spending time in slums all ove...

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Thought Factory

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...

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