An annual festival on a German North Sea island that had drawn criticism over a practice of men hitting women with cow's horns passed without reports of assaults this year, police said Friday. The ...

In one refugee settlement in Chad, estimates are that 97% of the Sudanese residents are women and children. Here's how four women there are mourning the loss of a partner and struggling to get by.

Direct comparison between the sexes showed slightly better survival in women than in men after the 10-year mark (HR for men, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.01-1.08; P = .012).