Herdswoman is about three Sami women to whom reindeer herding is more than a mere occupation – it is a way of life, their culture. Aina, Elisabeth and Lisa belong to different generations. Their stories reflect life in Sápmi (Lapland) and the transition from nomadic existence to modern society.   Part 2: Part 3: Part [...]

Naqsha Bibi, 40, was recovered alive from the debris of a collapsed house in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on 10 December. The unexpected rescue came more than two months after the 8 October earthquake destroyed large parts of Indian and Pakistan-administered Kashmir and northern areas in Pakistan. Naqsha Bibi, now under hospital treatment, is suffering from muscle [...]

Explore the remarkable plasticity of a baby’s brain and see how early experiences influence human development.

Gorillas play competitive games just like humans, according to scientists at the University of St Andrews. The gorillas at San Francisco Zoo were observed over a period of five years playing with a variety of equipment. The study found that gorillas like to keep games going and even give younger apes a fair chance to [...]

Experts have told of their surprise after witnessing a rare “divorce” between a pair of swans at a Gloucestershire wildfowl sanctuary. The Bewick’s swans have returned to winter at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre at Slimbridge – but both have brought new partners. It is only the second time in more than 40 years [...]

Governments must tackle the underlying causes of biodiversity loss if they are to stem the rate at which ecosystems and species are disappearing. That was one of the conclusions of an inter-governmental workshop in London held in preparation for October’s UN biodiversity summit in Nagoya, Japan. Delegates agreed that protecting nature would bring economic benefits [...]

Fresh research may help explain why regular exercise can improve brain power, say Cambridge scientists. The report, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found mice which exercised performed better on memory tests. These mice also grew more new cells in a part of the brain linked to memory than [...]

SEOUL, South Korea, Saturday, July 15, 1995— Rescuers pulled a 19-year-old woman from the rubble of a department store Saturday, 16 days after the building collapsed and killed at least 300 people. The condition of the woman, Park Sung Hyun, 19, was not immediately clear. “I can’t believe that this is real,” her brother told [...]

A 24-year-old man has been rescued alive from the rubble of a ruined hotel in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, 11 days after the earthquake. It came hours after Haiti’s government declared a formal end to the search for survivors. Onlookers cheered as Wismond Exantus – smiling and apparently in a good condition – emerged on a [...]

It was the writing of a 14-year-old girl in western China that gave a voice to countless children in rural China, whose families’ struggle to make a basic living often kept them from completing their education, which in turn, might help move their families out of the cycle of poverty. Now, nearly seven years after [...]