Feticide means 7,000 fewer girls a day in India
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Seven thousand fewer girls are born  in India each day than the global average would suggest,  largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex  determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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In the past two decades in China, female births have declined markedly compared with male births.
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Having sex is the high point of most women&#39;s&#39; days, while commuting is the low point. And most women like being with their kids less than
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NEW DELHI -- Indian women would be required to register their pregnancies and seek government permission for abortions under a proposal intended to curb abortions of female fetuses in the country, where boys are traditionally preferred.
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OTTAWA - One-third fewer teenagers were pregnant in 2001 than three decades earlier, according to Statistics Canada. Pregnancies among women under the age of 20 fell from 45.
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The birth rate among American girls ages 10 to 14 has fallen to its lowest level since 1946, the government reported Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said
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The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India is 2.47 million, less than half of previous official estimates, according to new U.N.-backed government estimates released on Friday.
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Science & environment: Number of Indian wild tigers has dwindled to about 1,400, less than half the previous estimate
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Fewer high school students were having sex and more were using condoms in 2005, according to the latest government report on the well-being of the nationâs children.
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NEW DELHI, Dec. 18 -- Lawmakers and women's rights activists expressed alarm Monday over new evidence indicating that about 7,000 fewer girls than expected are born each day in India, where women routinely suffer discrimination and parents often abort female fetuses.
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The UN says fewer children under five are dying than ever before, partly due to increased immunisation.
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The number of children dying worldwide has dropped below 10 million a year for the first time, UNICEF said Thursday
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India plans to create a registry of all pregnancies to help curb widespread female feticide and reduce its high infant mortality rate, although activists say the scheme will be hard to implement.
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The Indian government plans to set up a series of orphanages to raise unwanted baby girls in a bid to halt the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses, according to a senior government official.
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Indian health officials said Monday they aim to vaccinate about 95 million children against polio this week as part of a drive to eradicate the disease, which made a comeback last year.
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[World News]: New York, Dec 9 : India has over 221 million undernourished people - one in every five, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has said in its annual hunger report.
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Having sex is the high point of most  women's' days, while commuting is the low point. And most women  like being with their kids less than they will admit, according  to a study published on Thursday.