Monica Sarkar

Police in an Indian city are putting aside their batons in favor of an overhead solution to angry and unruly crowds: pepper-spraying drones.

A scientist and Nobel laureate apologized Wednesday after saying that women in laboratories “fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry.”

The “S.T.EYE” condom changes color when it comes into contact with a sexually transmitted infection such as chlamydia or syphilis.

More tigers are kept as pets in the U.S. than roam free in the wild, campaigners say, as they call for tough new laws on International Tiger Day.

Iran will not allow pilgrims from the country to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to take part in the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage.

Sexual violence and rape against Dalit women and girls have been brought into sharp focus, once again, after a nine-year-old girl was raped and murdered in the Indian capital last month.