The physical pain of extreme hunger and thirst is something you never forget. I vividly recall one occasion when, overwhelmed by hunger, I carefully wiped maggots away from a half-eaten roast chicken ...

In the near future, couples are given the option of engineering the DNA of their offspring for perfection or they can do nothing, and see what the luck of the genetic draw brings them. But, these ...

Eve Bodsworth is affiliated with the Brotherhood of St Laurence. On weekdays, around 40 school-aged children from public housing estates in Fitzroy, Melbourne, attend a breakfast club organised by the ...

In the United States, your nationality has some effect on your likelihood to be employed - -but being married matters more. For women, it matters a lot more, one study shows. For decades social ...

New research on disadvantage in Australia has found the gap between rich and poor is very wide in Sydney, while much of Queensland struggles with educational disadvantage and regional NSW and Victoria ...