Vicky Hallett

The one-legged orphan in Liberia had figured out how to use a crutch as an improvised prosthetic leg. But he wanted the real deal.

Westerners are often looking for short, intense workouts. A new study points out a different path to fitness.

Images of children dominate the winners of this year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, now on display at London's National Portrait Gallery.

Defeat DD is raising awareness for the No. 2 killer of children under five around the world — by getting people to write haikus about poop.

It's a problem with many of the anti-HIV options. Even if they're proven to be effective, people don't always want to use them.

Dennis Ogbe got polio at age 3 in Nigeria. He's gone on to win medals in the Paralympics. And he hopes the battle against polio will be won, despite its reappearance in his homeland.

She wanted to promote exercise — and challenge the belief that women aren't as physically capable as men. So she jumped into a chilly, choppy lake.

U.S. dating customs can be a bit unusual. (Swipe right ...) Let's see how people look for potential partners in other corners of the world.

A study reveals the staggering number of women and children (usually girls) who take a long walk to get water for the family.

It's a disfiguring disease spread by the bite of sand flies. And there are fears that the Syrian refugee problem is triggering a dramatic increase in cases.

Her parents were in exile from South Africa. She went to an international school in Kenya. And she never expected to wear the tiara.

That's one way to get people — and especially farmers — to play. After all, a cow is worth $1,500 in Tunisia.

Political pressure is the reason for Kenya's progressive policies — with credit to female leaders as well as some men who have taken on the issue.

Global mothers give special wisdom depending where they live. What do you call your elders? Do you know how to gather firewood? What's the family password?

The reason: He was born with a cleft, considered a curse in Ghana. His life was saved by a stroke of luck.

March 21 is the busiest day on the U.N. calendar of international observances. Here's what you need to know.

Children may not be able to put their emotions into words, says psychologist Vittoria Ardino. But give them crayons and they can reveal their feelings in pictures.

How can you tell it's International Women's Day? There's something in the air. Actually, it's an Air India flight that's returning from San Francisco to New Delhi after setting the record over the weekend for the longest distance trip ever recorded with an all-female crew — covering some 7,600 ...

How do you solve a problem like health? That's the question experts from around the globe asked earlier this year in Salzburg, Austria, at Schloss Leopoldskron — where parts of The Sound of Music were once filmed. A five-day program, "Hooked on Health Care: Designing Strategies for Better Health," hosted ...

Folks in the field of family planning research are experts at discussing all sorts of uncomfortable things — teen pregnancy, abortion, maternal death. So what's weird is that there's one issue no one is really talking about, says Suzanne Bell, MPH, a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...