schoolgirls

In November 1988, a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Junko Furuta left work and pedalled home on her bike, like thousands of other students in the suburbs of Tokyo. But she never made it back.In the months that followed, details of what…

Almost 100 schoolgirls in western Kenya have been hospitalised with a mystery paralysing 'illness'. Government officials said 95 students from a school some 232 miles (374 kilometres) northwest of Nairobi, had been struck down.Local…