In Malawi a packet of sanitary towels can cost a whole day's pay, and girls often miss school because the cotton strips they use instead are inadequate. Charlotte Ashton met a woman in Blantyre who's come up with a solution.

Palestinian Janna Jihad Ayyad, who turned 10 in April, counts herself among the youngest journalists in the world.

Wildlife authorities in Thailand have begun removing tigers from a Buddhist temple, after accusations of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.

This is the moment a hapless robber got a taste of his own medicine when the woman he targeted forced him to strip naked and run through the streets in Colombia.

When Pakistan's most populated province approved a law this year that gives women protection - and a potential escape - from abusive husbands, the country's powerful Council of Islamic Ideology strongly opposed the move.

An Indian woman has given birth to a 15lb (6.8kg) baby girl that doctors say could possibly be the heaviest child ever born in the country.

A Thai man is recovering in hospital after a 3m (10ft) python emerged from a squat toilet and sank its fangs into his penis.

Indonesia has toughened its punishments for child rapists to include the death penalty and chemical castration.