Footprints of the wild

Publishers worldwide need to be goaded to specialise in environmental publications, but the fair was piled high with coffee table glossies on …

Childish foibles

Infected food and unhygienic feeding habits lead to a high incidence of infantile diarrhoea

Australia repents

Australia apologises to aborigines for the mistakes of the past

Dolphin power

A head for figures

Scientists find two different ways the brain does maths. This could be a boon for children who do not learn maths in their mother tongue

Diabetes and summer-borns

Threat in the woods

Nuclear conspiracy

UK officials stole bodies of children to conduct nuclear experiments in the US

Should children drink beer?

A campaign against dairy products has been launched by an overzealous NGO

Malefactor

Brainstorming

Brain tumours can be caused by a virus that affects many children

Untreated hunger

No guidelines for severe malnutrition in children

Starve a child to repay a debt

External debt has proved an albatross around the neck of African nations. At least two-thirds of their total debt will have to be written off if …

Feeding in asthma

Food that one finds allergic can cause problems in the respiratory tract according to a group of scientists inspecting children with breathing …

NET WORK

Hope of deliverance

Elective caesarean delivery, combined with an antiretroviral drug, can slash chances of infected mothers transmitting AIDS to their babies

Tough task

Lost generation

UNITED NATIONS

Memory plus

New target

Children may soon sue smoking parents

UNITED NATIONS

JUMBO GIFT

Poignant Images

Ravaged future