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My first reaction is to refuse to go - I will not visit Saudi Arabia if I am required to wear a 'burkha' (veil), when my husband need not observe any Islamic dress codes.

Giving overweight children cholesterol-lowering drugs, as the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests, is not the best way to prevent them from becoming tomorrow's heart patients.

Several faded old 'chunnis' (stoles) stitched together partition 35-year-old Najma's office from her kitchen in the bamboo-walled room, adjoining her dilapidated mud house.

The culprit turns out to be magnetic reconnection, a common process that occurs throughout the universe when stressed magnetic field lines suddenly snap to a new shape.

The United Nations tribunal set up to try those responsible for atrocities committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s today convicted a Kosovo journalist of contempt of court.

She managed to do something no man in our village, including myself, had been able to do,' says Vrindaban Patnaik, the 'sarpanch' (village council head).

'Sound science and public health drive EPA's decisions under the Safe Drinking Water Act,' said Benjamin H. Grumbles, EPA's assistant administrator for water.

Food has carried a range of cultural meanings for women and their identities. Yet, why is it that women suffer the most during any kind of food crisis?