In at least 17 countries around the world, girls are being abducted, raped and forced into marriage, writes The Independent's Emily Dugan.

Senior New Zealanders feel nearly 20 years younger than their age and most believe others see them as younger ...

Lindsay Curnow pauses over her bowl of homemade pumpkin soup and says, "I didn't find it hard to be gay before this."

There's a general consensus that the privileged cannot ever understand the discrimination endured by other groups.

The Independent's Matthew Bell, as a disinterested, only slightly sandy observer, asks what's wrong with being ginger anyway?

The idea that the human community is rapidly declining in a downward spiral is a view many people subscribe to.