Child marriage became illegal in the Philippines as a law banning the practice took effect in a country where one in six girls enters wedlock before the age of 18.
India's under-19 shuttler Tasnim Mir has become the world number-1 badminton player in the women's singles category of Under-19, in the latest BWF junior rankings.
The woman is a leukaemia patient and received a stem cell transplant from someone with natural resistance to the Aids-causing virus. An umbilical cord blood transplant was done, as a part of her cancer treatment.
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