A child's 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in ...

Statues of Shivaji are rising everywhere. The founder of the Maratha empire who fought against the Mughal dynasty is now a symbol for nationalists remaking the country.

A gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle gave birth to a baby boy on May 24 via an 'extremely rare' C-section after an ultrasound revealed complications. The surgery was performed by a local ...

Wide-ranging measures to boost the country’s birth rate are denting demand for China’s leading contraceptive bran ...

South Korea’s demographic crisis is exposing a deeper problem: how class, gender, education, housing, and family background shape who is considered marriageable.

Colombian-American photographer and filmmaker Juan Arredondo turns his lens on the people of the world who do not have birth and death certificates — and how these vital records are created.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Mexico and Mexico City authorities inaugurated the restored and upgraded monument to President Ho Chi Minh in a park in the capital on May 27.

In a major relief to popular wrestler, Vinesh Phogat, the Supreme Court on Friday in its order permitted her to take part in ...

Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center investigate a maternal health disparity puzzling gestational diabetes trends among Chinese Americans in Boston.

A rare event is about to take place at Indonesia’s Taman Safari Zoo: for the first time in three years, a giant panda has ...

Kyle Adler’s discovery that he was stolen from his Chilean mother as a baby came as a shock, sparking an identity crisis that ...

Africa s population has grown more than sixfold since 1950 and is projected to keep expanding through the end of the century even as growth slows across most of the world according to a Pew Research ...