Society

The Eiffel Tower went dark briefly to mark Earth Hour, the campaign to raise awareness about climate change.

"Please do not right down my name. I don't want to scandalise my daughters," said Ehsan Ehab*, a 47 year-old…

Whether labelled "Worcester Woman" or "Aldi Mum", the struggling middle class is at the heart of the campaign for Britain's…

Ivory Coast reigns as the world's top cocoa producer but it wants to sell more than the beans, turning them…

China faces a million deaths a year from antibiotic-resistant superbugs and a loss of $20 trillion by 2050, an economist…

Excessive housework and lack of parental support are the main reasons why girls in Uganda drop out of school, research…

A Bosnian woman has agreed to meet the son she bore as the result of wartime rape after having read…

More than three decades after putting down her tennis racquet, Renee Richards is still astonished she had the moxie to…

She still has friends who work at Columbia, so singer Brandi Carlile isn't gloating about her first disc after being…

A primary school head teacher confessed Tuesday to having tricked blindfolded pupils into oral sex during a workshop on experiencing…