Angelina Jolie's Op-Ed piece in the New York Times (May 14, 2013) stating why she had a double mastectomy (or breast removal) has created a media sensation across the world.

Earlier this week, the UN made history by adopting the first ever global

The news from Mississippi of an HIV-positive baby being 'cured' has once again started discussions around the plausibility of a breakthrough. Dr. Satyajit Rath discusses with Newsclick the reasons which are possibly behind what is termed as 'functionally cured.' He suggests that treating infection early on when the baby is exposed to it is almost like prevention. But since there is no accurate way of knowing when an adult is exposed to HIV, can the approach used in the baby's case be of any significance to the adult community infected with HIV?

By definition, a revolution is a collective process, not a one-man endeavour. While the social and political legacy of Hugo Chávez is remarkable, the Bolivarian Revolution has been intrinsically tied to him as the leader. With Chávez's death, the Boliviarian Revolution faces a fundamental test.

The geopolitics of the Internet broke open during the first half of December at an international conference in Dubai convened by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN affiliate agency with 193 national members.

“Zero Dark Thirty”, the American film nominated for the Oscars this year, is based on the American operation to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden.

On January 11, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) released its “Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-level Radioactive Waste”. The strategy is the Obama administration’s response to the recommendations issued in January 2012 by the federal Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on America's Nuclear Future.

Roy Singham, friend of recently deceased Aaron Swartz gave a speech at a memorial service at the great hall of Cooper Union in NYC on January 19th 2013. Roy Singham is the founder and organizer of Freedom to Connect. Roy talks about the work he did with Aaron and the injustice to his unfortunate death.

Lawrence Liang from the Alternative Law Forum discusses with NewsClick the tragic loss of Aaron Swartz. Liang underlines Aaron was a victim of a system in which privatisation of knowledge is the norm and its transgression as an act of resistance, as an act of self exploration has always been met by harsh punishment. Aaron was actively involved and committed to the idea of free knowledge. He was working out ways of democratising access to information, to technology which has incredible consequences for science, for knowledge as such. Liang sees Aaron's act of downloading 4 million articles from JSTOR, intending to make them public, as a stupendous act of generosity. Aaron's death is linked to the war against freedom of information that the US government has launched.