Women avoid their fathers when they are most likely to get pregnant, a new study found.

Is this nature’s way to prevent inbreeding? Or is it just that girls steer clear of their overbearing dads when they'd rather be with their boyfriends?

“He thought I had hurt myself, cut my leg or something. We checked for a cut or a wound but there was nothing.”

Ushma was 12 years old, out playing with friends. One of them had noticed a large red stain on her dress. Part one in a series of personal stories about first times. This week, a first period.

A cheap machine to make affordable sanitary pads for Indian women: it’s entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham’s greatest achievement, he says.

When Muruganantham learned of the unhygienic way his wife and the vast majority of Indian women had to deal with their periods, he became obsessed with helping out. He almost lost everything trying, but in the end he created the sanitary pad of his dreams.