17 May 2012 at 8:45pm A documentary reveals the lives of two of Thailand's 30,000 child boxers, writes Carolyn Webb.
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17 May 2012 at 6:26pm The mother of four girls caught up in an international custody dispute says she will today apply for a stay on Family Court orders requiring the girls? return to Italy, and seek leave to appeal in the High Court.
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17 May 2012 at 3:44pm NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among girls and women who get their first human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine, the percent who complete all three doses is dropping, according to a new study. One of the study's authors told Reuters Health she was aware the number of people completing the vaccine series was low to begin with, but she did not expect to see it getting even lower. "We thought that that ...
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16 May 2012 at 10:12am "I Suck at Girls" (It Books), by Justin Halpern: With a title like "I Suck at Girls," from the best-selling author of "S--- My Dad Says," in a thin volume that would be much thinner if all the profanity were expunged, I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting. From the cover art of boxers strewn on a headboard to the endorsement quote from Maxim, Justin Halpern's second book makes no effort to ...
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15 May 2012 at 3:04pm NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fewer girls in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan are getting married before the age of 14, according to a new study. The decline varied in each country, but was generally sizeable. In Bangladesh, for example, about 34 percent of women reported being married by age 14 in 1991 and 1994. By 2005 and 2007 that number fell to about 19 percent. The news, however, was ...
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