The ongoing heatwave has exacerbated the challenges faced by everyone in the country, but the situation has become particularly difficult for expecting mothers.

Heavily pregnant Sonari toils under the burning sun in fields dotted with bright yellow melons in Jacobabad, which last month became the hottest city on Earth.

France has detected its first sexually transmitted case of Zika in a woman whose partner had traveled to Brazil, the epicentre of an outbreak of the virus, a senior health official says.

Over 3,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, President Juan Manuel Santos says.

A rare case of the Zika virus being transmitted through sex, not a mosquito bite, has been reported in the US.

More than 2,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country's national health institute says, as the disease continues its spread across the Americas.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrests the prime accused of shooting an eight-month pregnant mother in Magura during a Jubo League factional clash from Kalyanpur in Dhaka

Pregnant women in the holy month of Ramadan face a dilemma whether they can fast without any implications.