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Nirma, 16, plays with her friends. She is married but still lives with her parents and talks to her husband on the phone sometimes. She is nervous about the duties she'll have to take on when she does move in with her husband. At the moment, she hopes to graduate high school and eventually become a doctor.

Prize-Winning Photos Show A Different Side Of Instagram

Getty has given grants to photographers who focused on child brides in India, family members who have been out of touch and youth who have been incarcerated.

Wildlife Research Institute biologists Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield use an antenna while trying to locate a radio-collared bear in the woods near Ely, Minn. in 2012.

Invisibilia: Should Wild Bears Be Feared Or Befriended?

A photographer who walks deep into the woods in search of a wild bear wonders if his curiosity will overcome his fear. Can bears and humans co-exist?

Students in India have begun to engage in creative activities as a part of newly launched program by the Delhi government to shift emphasis onto mental health well-being.

To Focus On Students' Emotional Well-Being, India Tries 'Happiness Classes'

This month, Delhi students saw a new course added to their traditionally rigid curriculum. To confront academic pressures linked to India's high suicide rate, public schools are teaching mindfulness.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrives Monday to speak outside her office on Capitol Hill. The day was filled with back-and-forth in the Senate over the House Democrats' financial stimulus package.

Pelosi Expresses 'Real Optimism' About Reaching Coronavirus Aid Deal

The House speaker said a Senate agreement could be "done in the next few hours." The remarks are a boost for an approximately $2 trillion deal to revitalize an economy hobbled by the outbreak.

The Ngozumpa Glacier in the Himalayas of Nepal, filling the valley in the foreground, now contains meltwater pools.

Report: Global Warming Could Melt At Least A Third Of Himalayan Glaciers

If temperatures continue to rise, glaciers would begin to disappear, with a serious impact on the area's water resources.

Ivanka Trump speaks at a roundtable for the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative at the White House on February 7.

Ivanka Trump Launches $50 Million Program To Empower Women In The Workplace

She wants to make it help 50 million women around the world get jobs and start their own businesses. Critics are waiting for more details.

Mrs. Claus poses in 2012 in New York City. Five years ago, "there was rarely a standalone opportunity for Mrs. Claus," says Stephen Arnold, president of the International Brotherhood of Real Bearded Santas. But times are changing up North.

This Year, Mrs. Claus Is Coming To Town — And Not As Santa's Sidekick

America's Santa industry has long been a male-dominated one. But, increasingly, Santa's better half is breaking loose.

Some 15 percent of the seafood that's wasted in the U.S. is lost en route from sea to consumer, often because it spoils or is discarded as scraps.

We Leave Half Of All Our Seafood On The Table (And In The Trash)

Each year American consumers buy and then never eat 1.3 billion pounds of fish and shellfish, according to a new study. Fishermen, retailers and processors waste a lot of fish, too.

Jo Nesbo Gives 'Macbeth' A Gritty, Action-Packed Update

The latest installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series sees crime novelist Nesbo taking on the Scottish Play in an adaptation that comes alive the farther he strays from Shakespeare's original.

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