CBC News reports, “Children’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan says she is honoured to share this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with India’s Kailash Satyarthi, whose work also involves protecting the interests of young people. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo) “I’m proud that I’m the first Pakistani and first the young woman, or the first young...

Health expert and writer, Marisa Weiss reports for the WSJ, “What health issue will millennials have to deal with that their parents didn’t? (Image: iStock) Being alone for most of their adult lives. The fabric of our society is rapidly changing. Now for the first time, most people over 16...

CBC News reports, “He may not be considered an adult in Hong Kong, but already 17-year-old Joshua Wong is taking on the government for the second time — along with his tens of thousands of supporters. (Joshua Wong, 17, is the leader of Scholarism, which is one of the groups galvanizing Hong...

The National Desert News reports, “In 2011, Casey Allred was a director at a school that he helped start in a  small village in India, and he noticed that girls — especially girls around 12  or 13 — started disappearing from the rolls. He went in search of them without ...

The Guardian reports, “Sierra Leone’s government has quarantined more than a million people in an attempt to bring an end to the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. (A health worker is disinfected after assisting with a suspected case of Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photograph: Michael Duff/AP) Areas in the...

CNN reports, “Authorities have killed almost 5,000 dogs in one Chinese city after rabies was blamed for the death of five people, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. (A rescued dog waits to be adopted in Hong Kong. Image: CNN) Municipal authorities in Baoshan, in the southwestern province...

The Guardian reports, “Apple has responded firmly to claims that its new iPhones can bend in use, saying that only nine customers have contacted it with problems since the phones went on sale last Friday. The company said in a statement earlier this week that it had sold 10m of...

CNN reports, “India’s Mars Orbiter Mission successfully entered Mars’ orbit Wednesday morning, becoming the first nation to arrive on its first attempt and the first Asian country to reach the Red Planet. “We have gone beyond the boundaries of human enterprise and human imagination,” declared India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...

CNN reports, “In November of last year, 19-year-old Aqsa Mahmood gave her father, Muzaffar, a long hug goodbye. He remembers, he says, because she looked especially beautiful. He remarked upon it to his wife, saying there was something different about his daughter. (Image: BBC) The night before, she had asked...

BBC News reports, “Scotland has voted to stay in the United Kingdom after voters decisively rejected independence. With the results in from all 32 council areas, the “No” side won with 2,001,926 votes over 1,617,989 for “Yes”. Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond called for unity and urged the unionist parties...