California Colleges want students to bike to school

Universities in Southern California want their students to bike, carpool, and take more public transit to school, so they are implementing programs to encourage this. With fantastic weather almost the whole year, it...

New record: 94,563 Indian students in US

Just aginst the popular belief  that in this recessionary phase the Indian student will not opt for foreign institution,almost 13% growth in the Indian students intake in US universities have been repoted.The dream of getting American University degree is really going...

Students Mobilize to Help Tenants Displaced Due to Foreclosure

Law and college students from several Boston colleges and universities intend to take part in walking the streets of Hyde Park, Dorchester, and South Boston to inform tenants of their rights to their homes. This campaign aims to focus on the 28 zones in Chelsea and Boston,...

4 students die in bid to escape fire

A horrible tragedy, considering it could have been averted. "FOUR young female college students died yesterday after falling or jumping from their flame-engulfed room on the sixth floor of the Shanghai Business...

Pakistani seminaries seek to shed terror label

Seminaries or religious schools in Pakistan that suspected in the West of being breeding grounds for militants are struggling to remove this perception."Pakistani seminaries, having come to be viewed with deep suspicion in the West, are seeking to change the perception that...

School collapses in Haiti: 30 dead

UPDATE: 4:09PM PST" A hillside school where roughly 500 students usually crowded into several floors collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Rescuers used bare hands to...

82 children dead in Haitian school collapse

In a tragic incident of school buiding collapse in capital of Haiti, more than fifty children died, and almost 120 injured.Rescue operation is still on, the relatives of children are searching the body of their near...

Female suicide bomber kills 11, injures 38 in North Ossetia

A female suicide bomber is suspected of having detonated a bomb outside a minibus in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, a federal subject of Russian Federation. Eleven people were killed and thirty eight were...

Still a Mystery

"Brianna Denison: 1988-2008 Solving 1977 slaying gives hope to police Read Comments(24) Recommend(6) Eight years ago, veteran Reno police detective David Jenkins answered a cell phone call from the commander of the Washoe County Crime...

Gunman arrested after Maine students held hostage

"(10-31) 10:13 PDT Stockton Springs, Maine (AP) -- A gunman who had been on the lam for a week held 11 fifth-graders hostage at a school Friday but was tackled outside a classroom without any harm to the children, police said. ...

Students Protest For Education In Italy

Across Italy, students are taking over high schools and universities, protesting planned cuts by the government. In some cases, lessons have continued outside school walls on steps and in plazas.Students Protest For...

Small Talk: the New Orleans Saints Cheerleaders in London

"[Attempting to come up with a question that doesn't make Small Talk sound patronising, like a pervert or a patronising pervert]. So, DiAnne and Ashlyn do you come to London often? DiAnne: We've been here before to...

Bee Gees belter may help cheat death

So long as we don't get generations of paramedics singing along to the tunes in their heads whilst resuscitating patients, I think I'm all for it:"The Bee Gees' 1977 falsetto stomper Stayin' Alive could be the latest...

Fat boy executed

Good riddens"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ohio death row inmate was executed Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be put to death. ...

At least 25 killed in central Pakistan road crash

A tragic incident of head on collisin of overcrowded bus and truck occured in town of Lodhran in central pakistan.25 Deaths, most of them children have been reported.Death toll may rise , as 30 people hospitalised...

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