Writing from a secure country, orphans here are suffering from hunger and poverty. They face developmental delays due to severe malnutrition. Meeting their physical needs for food, clothing and shelter opens do...

With obesity a growing problem in most wealthy countries, Dubai has come up with a novel way to fight it. If its citizens lose weight, they'll give them pure gold; if the dieter happens to be a child, they'll d...

Setting oneself on fire is the newest disturbing online trend. According to The Daily Dot, YouTube and Vine are loaded with teens who are putting accelerant on themselves and setting themselves aflame. One teen...

A new survey—one connected with the USA drama "Satisfaction," so it take it for what it's worth—has found that some millennials think the marriage contract could use a few improvements. In fact, 43 ...

Youth who want to go to Harvard or Stanford know they'll have some stiff competition. Thousands of teens are turned away from America's most elite universities every year, and those who gain admission to such s...

Zayn Malik of the singing group One Direction recently tweeted #FreePalestine—a message that was favorited 200,000 times and triggered several death threats toward Malik.He's the latest in a long line of ...

There are now efforts afoot to help teens and youth—notoriously comfortable with the Internet and all its many, many social networking sites—become a little more skeptical of them all. At least one ...

The news has been rife with stories about how social networks have been experimenting with its users. Facebook confessed that it meddled with the newsfeeds of 700,000 of its users, ostensibly to see if the post...

The Little League baseball team in Toms River, N.J., may be on its way to the Little League World Series—thanks in large part to its power-hitting first baseman, who just happens to be a girl.Kayla Roncin...

Just how huge is Apple? When we're told the tech giant earned $37.4 billion in the most recent quarter, the numbers can feel a little meaningless. So here's some perspective: If Apple spun off the iPhone into i...