A small French town is to offer expectant mothers 1,000 euros from next year to give birth at the local maternity ward in a bid to save it from closing. The initiative from January 1 comes as birth ...

Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway, is one of the world’s most unusual towns—where science, not tradition, decides where life begins and ends. Longyearbyen bans burials and births due to permafrost and ...