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Experts have warned that more needs to be done to boost the exercise levels of UK teenagers - with just 13% of teenage girls active every day.

Bail was declined and his name stays suppressed pending a hearing next week.

The girls were trafficked and sold from the border districts of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to various cities in Maharashtra; human rights body takes suo motu cognisance of media reports

Four Nigerian girls, including a 14-year-old, have been rescued from a prostitution ring in Mali after being lured with false job promises. Read More: https://punchng.com/four-trafficked-nigerian-girls-rescued-from-mali-prostitution-ring/

Amnesty International says Boko Haram has killed thousands, abducted many girls as sex slaves, and displaced over two million people in North-East Nigeria. Read More: https://punchng.com/bharam-killed-thousands-held-girls-as-sex-slaves-amnesty/

The candidate was invited as an 'inspirational leader', the principal says.

South Africa introduced a vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV) in public schools in 2014. The programme offered the vaccination to grade 4 girls aged nine years and older. Uptake was high from the start. About 87% of eligible girls received at least one dose during the first year.

In the judgment announced on October 30, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mathura Brijesh Kumar also imposed a fine of ₹1.43 lakh on the convict, Shyam Bihari, Assistant Advocate Rampal Singh said

The Lagos State Police Command has rescued three young girls from a suspected human trafficking operation in the Badagry area of the state. Read More: https://punchng.com/human-trafficking-police-rescue-three-girls-in-lagos/

Parents have been urged to prioritise girls’ education and end child marriage at an event in Lagos to mark the International Day of the Girl Child. Read More: https://punchng.com/parents-urged-to-prioritise-girls-education/

Champions of indigenous women's rights in Guatemala, girls' education in India, and restored farmland in Mali all featured among the winners of UN's SDG Action Awards.

Senator Adams Oshiomhole has recounted how an Italian ambassador told him that Italian men cannot resist Edo women during a discussion on human trafficking Read More: https://punchng.com/italian-men-cannot-resist-edo-girls-oshiomhole-recounts-ambassadors-remark/

Warning: Graphic content. Parents at a girls' softball game in Texas got aggressive over a sportsmanship dispute over the weekend. One man ended up in the hospital, and a husband and wife now face criminal charges.

Secondary school girls in the FCT have developed over 700 AI-powered projects to solve challenges in healthcare, education, and digital safety. Read More: https://punchng.com/fct-schoolgirls-develop-ai-projects-to-tackle-community-challenges/

The girls were handed over to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) for counselling before reuniting with the family members

Lena Dunham schuf mit Mitte zwanzig ein Meisterwerk und zerbrach fast am eigenen Ruhm. Jetzt ist sie vierzig, Mutter und kündigt eine Fortsetzung der Kultserie an. Das dürfte lustig werden.

Nigerian initiative, WITIN Girls, has won the Universal Access Service Excellence Award at the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation Digital Awards. Read More: https://punchng.com/witin-girls-wins-commonwealth-digital-excellence-award/

The police said that as the girls’ parents stayed in Kerala for work as wage labourers, they visited home occasionally

Just days before her death, Frances Crawford confronted her husband about his repeated affairs and relationships, and interstate and overseas flights he had booked for other women.

Colorado and Washington are reliably Democratic states where elected officials have rejected moves to ban transgender women and girls from female sports competitions. Now activists have gone around lawmakers to put proposed bans on both states' ballots.

Vincent Battiloro, 18, of Garwood, appeared in court for his arraignment on Monday, following his indictment this month on two counts of first-degree murder.

Tom DeSimone, who transitioned from directing adult films into helming a host of B-movies including cult pic “Reform School Girls” and talking-vagina comedy “Chatterbox,” died Oct. 17 in Cathedral City, Calif. He was 87. His brother Bob confirmed his death and said he chose to die with medically assisted end of death after a terminal […]

He started his career in adult films, where he was “interested in exploring gays in love or at least relationships.”

Director Ania Winiarska almost gave up on “Good Girls.” “After six months, I felt like I’d hit a wall. I’ve never had this problem before,” she told Variety. “It was always very natural for me to gain people’s trust, but my previous films were about boys or men. This one was about teenage girls and […]

Girls in Bauchi State have been urged to pursue education, acquire vocational skills and consider non-traditional jobs to promote financial independence. Read More: https://punchng.com/bauchi-urges-girls-to-embrace-education-non-traditional-jobs/

KANGAR, Oct 26 — A government retiree pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to three charges of comm...

The Dominican religious order sold the land, including its former convent and chapel, for more than €8 million in 2021

The Rivers State Ministry of Education is investigating reports that 16 female students were subjected to forced virginity testing in Khana LGA. Read More: https://punchng.com/rivers-probes-forced-virginity-tests-on-16-schoolgirls/

A Toronto man has been charged after police allege he sexually assaulted two underage girls in separate incidents in Etobicoke days apart. Toronto police say the first incident occurred on Oct. 15 at approximately 12:30 p.m. in the area of Lake Shore Boulevard West and Royal York Road, near Amos Waites Park. Investigators allege an […]

Broadway show "School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play" flips the script on cult classic "Mean Girls." In this story, an American transfer student experiences bullying and girlhood at a Ghanian school. Stars Denée Benton and Jasmine Amy Rogers join "CBS Mornings" to discuss the play.

The girls told personnel from the Singappen Task Force that two men had approached them while they were on the beach, promising to buy them food, and subsequently sexually assaulted them in a lodge

Six in 10 identify lack of confidence in their Stem subject ability as barrier to pursuing career in the sector, survey finds

Just over one in four girls surveyed in single-sex schools currently have access to Computer Science at Leaving Certificate level, according to new research.

Alleged offences happened between 1973 and 1975 when orphaned girls were in man’s care

Although Girls5eva was cut short after three seasons, Sara Bareilles still has some “Big P*ssy Energy” to work out with her inner Fledge Mulholland. The 2x Grammy winner recently admitted she’s “still holding out” for a movie adaptation of the Peacock/Netflix series, which ran for three seasons from 2021 to 2024, noting that she and […]

<img style="float: right" src="https://i.ds.at/BXHevg/rs:fill:150:0/plain/lido-images/2026/10/19/9e9ff3a8-d6f5-4487-ba84-181e525a10a3.jpg">Auf Social Media gibt es eine neue Lust am Anderssein. Dabei ist das Phänomen der "Niche Girls" gar nicht so neu. Und führt es am Ende nicht doch wieder zu Konformität?

A US-based non-profit, Quantus Medical Foundation, has empowered 600 female students in Abia and Enugu states with health education and personal hygiene ki Read More: https://punchng.com/foundation-empowers-600-girls-in-abia-enugu/

A new study shows that more teen girls are vaping than boys. This comes after Selena Gomez recently shared that vaping changed her voice. Dr. Abbey Masonbrink, a pediatric hospitalist at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, explains what could be the driving factor in the increase in vaping. Lilia Luciano reports.