Imagine a technology so advanced that it can save communities in draught-ridden as well as water-logged or flooded areas,

In a quiet section of the Ostrovski Museum on Tverskaïa Street, Moscow, a group of 12 unique actors are busy rehearsing for a

Attainment of motherhood is a beautiful, life-altering event, but as Olesya Kashaeva realised, it comes with its hindrances.

When Maya Rostam first asked her mother if she could join a new photography course in the Kawergosk refugee camp where they lived, she got a resounding “No.”

A woman can bleed to death in a couple of hours, or even less, after giving birth. In rural areas, where hospitals may be days

Kanattsanan “Mukk” Dokput was 27 when he sank the first needle full of black market testosterone into his thigh.

At Reap Benefit’s charming office in an old bungalow in Bangalore is a quote by Mozart, written with chalk at the entrance: “Be silent if you choose but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”

Gamal Albinsaid, 24, a young graduate of Brawijaya University’s School of Medicine in Malang, East Java started a unique movement in his native Indonesia – enabling people without health insurance to access medical services in exchange for collecting trash for recycling.

They’re called First Responders: ordinary people who, when alerted by a message on their smartphone at any time and in any place, are ready to go to a person's rescue and become resuscitators.

The Maya App is perhaps one of the biggest initiatives undertaken to create a virtual safe space for people from all walks of

When the Syrian army draft papers came in, his father told him it was time to get out.

When Waleed Shawky came across a large cache of donated medicine in a Cairo mosquein 2010, he was awestruck. The pharmacist had long wondered where the E£1 billion (US$112 million) of medicine that is wasted every year in Egypt goes.

An innovative method of facilitating charitable donations by rounding up to the nearest euro at store checkouts

As he was walking on the streets of Melbourne, entrepreneur and business coach Simon Rowe was moved by the sight of a man trying to sleep in a concrete doorway on a busy street in the middle of the day. He began to wonder: how could he help the homeless people get a safe and comfortable sleep?

Today is Impact Journalism Day, and 55 newspapers unite to celebrate change makers everywhere.

On November 8th, 2014, 3 stars were born on the stage of Lux Channel I Superstar. Of them, one is Neelanjona Neela, who

About Town

Taking a trip to the older part of Dhaka is always refreshing; the walls, colours, the narrow lanes and of course the age-old

A small asteroid has been discovered in an orbit around the sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth, and it will remain so for centuries to come.

"The hardships that my mother, like other mothers in our country, went through- she did not deserve it,” says Dr Sayed Saikh Imtiaz, Chairperson and Associate Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Executive Director (Honorary), Center for Men and Masculinities Studies (CMMS).