Rebecca Davis

Conflict in Tigray has led to a collapse of its public health system

Ari Daniel

Conflict in Tigray has led to a collapse of its public health system. Physicians are having to reuse gloves, use expired medications and deny patients care because of lack of resources and power.

Justine Adhiambo Obura with one of the "No Sex for Fish" boats at Nduru beach. She is the chairperson of the cooperative that came up with a radical idea in a community where fishermen often demanded transactional sex before giving a supply of fish to a woman to sell: What if women had their own boats and hired men to fish for them?

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Whatever happened to the 'No Sex for Fish' women after the flood? Hint: It's 'amazing'

Viola Kosome

That's what a charity worker said of their latest plan. The Kenyan fishmongers got their own boats to escape pressure to trade sex for fish to sell. Then floods wiped them out. Now there's new hope.

What It's Like To Be Quarantined On A Cruise Ship For Coronavirus

Rebecca Davis

Passengers aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship are under coronavirus quarantine. They're confined to their cabins and passengers are getting restless — and anxious about rising cases of illness.

In 2011, a 17-year-old named Mishka told readers of his Facebook post that his Salem, Ore., high school was "asking for a f***ing shooting." That post and other furious outbursts triggered a quick, but deep evaluation by the school district's threat assessment unit.

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When teens threaten violence, a community responds with compassion

Rhitu Chatterjee

After years of being beaten up, this teen decided to take justice into his own hands. A school district in Oregon showed him a better way to solve his problems.

Syrian Refugee And German Scientist Make An Unlikely Team

Rebecca Davis

In Leipzig, Germany, two scientists from very different backgrounds are working on a unique research project.