FEATURE-Russian flight attendants hope 'too fat to fly' victory helps women at work
"Professionals should not be evaluated based on their clothing sizes, and I hope that this practice will come to an end"
"Only the bricks count": children toil to help families in Indian kilns
"If you don't put children to work then you can't complete the kind of production required to earn the minimum wages."
Britain's young shoulder burden of housing crisis, while older reap profits - study
A half-century of mounting property prices has drained the living standards of millennials, while enriching older homeowners, the report shows
"Verbal autopsies" show India has averted a million child deaths since 2005
Study suggests mortality rates from vaccine-preventable diseases such as tetanus and measles have fallen by about 90 percent since 2005.
Hurricane Maria targets St. Croix and Puerto Rico after ripping up Dominica
The region was hit just days ago by Hurricane Irma, which ranked as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record and devasted several small islands
More than 40 million people trapped in slavery, with majority women: new global figure
Modern slavery most prevalent in Africa followed by Asia and Pacific
EXCLUSIVE-Richard Branson setting up green energy fund to rebuild Caribbean
Branson has already met with government representatives from Britain and the United States
Health workers race to contain cholera outbreak in northeast Nigeria
More than 2,600 people have been infected and at least 48 have died so far in Borno state