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Afghan universities reopen but women still barred
Male students trickled back to their classes Monday after Afghan universities reopened following a winter break but women remain b...
French teenager charged with murder over teacher k...
Prosecutors on Friday charged a 16-year-old boy with murder over the fatal stabbing of his Spanish teacher during class earlier th...
'Existential war': Putin steels Russia for long co...
When Russia introduced patriotism classes in primary and secondary schools last September, Tatyana Chervenko decided she was not g...
Biden demands Congress act on gun violence after l...
US President Joe Biden called on Congress Tuesday to act against America's epidemic of gun violence, one day after a new massacre...
One in 3 schoolchildren lacks access to drinking w...
One in three children worldwide does not have access to clean drinking water while at school, impacting their health and ability t...
Florida presses bid to roll back Disney special st...
Florida lawmakers on Monday introduced a bill that would allow the state to take control of the area around Walt Disney World that...
ChatGPT maker fields tool for spotting AI-written...
Creators of a ChatGPT bot causing a stir for its ability to mimic human writing on Tuesday released a tool designed to detect when...
Bullying prompted French schoolboy's suicide: moth...
The mother of a 13-year-old boy who killed himself in eastern France this month said Monday she believed homophobic bullying by cl...
Library thrives in Pakistan's 'wild west' gun mark...
When the din of Pakistan's most notorious weapons market becomes overwhelming, arms dealer Muhammad Jahanzeb slinks away from his...
US college admissions scam mastermind gets 3.5 yea...
The mastermind of a sprawling US college admissions scam that saw actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman serve jail time was...
Several foreign NGOs stop work in Afghanistan afte...
Several foreign aid groups announced on Sunday they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country's Taliban ru...
Top UN, NGO officials to meet over Taliban ban on...
Top officials from the United Nations and dozens of NGOs operating in Afghanistan are meeting in Kabul Sunday to discuss the way a...
Afghan women banned from university 'for not follo...
Afghan universities were declared off limits to women because female students were not following instructions including a proper d...
#LetHerLearn: Afghans use social media to protest...
Afghans voiced outrage on social media Wednesday over the Taliban's ban on women attending university, using the hashtag #LetHerLe...
Brain drain: Zimbabwe fears losing teachers to the...
After an exodus of nurses, Zimbabwe now faces losing its teachers as a new British recruitment policy threatens a fresh brain drai...
'Work without limits': Japan's teachers battle for...
In one of his last diary entries, Japanese teacher Yoshio Kudo lamented workdays that started early and could last until nearly mi...
Headscarf debate reaches Turkish parliament ahead...
Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party on Friday submitted a constitutional amendment to parliament enshrining women's right to wear...
Uganda closes schools to fight Ebola, new cases fa...
Uganda closed schools nationwide on Friday to curb the spread of Ebola, despite the health minister insisting to AFP that new case...
Interactive play gives Spain teens insight into ge...
The row started with something minor: 'Edu' was laughing at something on his phone but refused to show it to his girlfriend 'Ali'....
Hazara girl wounded in deadly Afghan attack triump...
A month after losing her eye in a deadly suicide bomb attack on her academy, a young Hazara woman has finished among the top candi...
Fleeing jihadist violence, Niger pupils return to...
With blue schoolbags bouncing off their backs, hundreds of schoolchildren hurtle down small sand dunes eager to attend class again...
US Supreme Court's right-wing skeptical of using r...
The conservative-majority US Supreme Court appeared poised on Monday to ban the use of race as a factor in deciding who gets into...
After dark, Iran security forces take aim at prote...
Iranian security forces targeted a hospital and a student dormitory overnight, a rights group said Saturday, as a protest movement...
Iran tensions rise in protests ahead of Mahsa Amin...
Iranian students protested Tuesday at multiple universities, defying a bloody crackdown as tensions mount on the eve of planned ce...
11 pupils die in blaze at Ugandan school for blind
Eleven pupils at a school for the blind in Uganda have burnt to death after a fire tore through a dormitory as they were sleeping...
Children among 11 killed in fire at Uganda blind s...
Eleven people, mostly children, have been killed in a blaze that tore through a school for the blind in Uganda in the early hours...
Thousand join Hungary teacher rebellion over 'humi...
Hungary's failing schools are becoming the focus of swelling protests, with pupils and parents backing teachers sacked for rebelli...
In conservative Florida, LGBT community fights to...
A Beyonce hit thumped in the background as Pride parade participants marched on Saturday through the streets of Orlando, transform...
Afghan girls take university exams two weeks after...
Thousands of Afghan girls and women sat university entrance exams on Thursday under the guard of Taliban snipers, two weeks after...
Ukraine schools battered by Russian onslaught in s...
Just a handful of kilometres from the frontline, a shattered village school in the southern Mykolaiv region is a stark sign of the...
UN condemns 'shameful' year-long ban on Afghan gir...
The United Nations urged the Taliban on Sunday to reopen high schools for girls across Afghanistan, condemning the ban that began...
Romania's plagiarism hunter becomes the hunted
Romanian journalist Emilia Sercan has made it her mission to expose plagiarism at the country’s highest levels.