Popular cafe in Iranian capital entirely run by people with Down syndrome or autism raises spirits, combats stigma

Health official: Pakistan launches week-long anti-polio campaign to vaccinate millions of children under 5 years of age

U.N. children's agency warns of a possible second cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen after airstrikes hit water facilities and other civilian infrastructure in the port city of Hodeida

Overdose of patriotism? Egyptian minister's decision to play national anthem in state hospitals met with scorn

Bahrain's ailing top Shiite cleric and opposition figure leaves island kingdom for medical treatment in Britain

Few witness the proceedings as Iraqi courts try suspected IS members, issuing death sentences as a dizzying rate

Egyptian prosecutors have ordered the country's top media regulator to be summoned for questioning over his decision to issue a gag order on corruption allegations made against a children's cancer hospital

Rohingya women pregnant from Myanmar military rapes suffer severe stigma; some aborted, others agonized over giving away unloved babies, one stuffed a scarf in her mouth to silence her screams of labor

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency is reporting that 230 people have been poisoned by drinking polluted water in the county's southwest

New Delhi officials have ordered a two-day halt to construction in an attempt to reduce choking pollution that has cloaked the city in smog and dust