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Confiscated French love letters finally opened aft...
Undelivered letters written to French sailors during an 18th century war between Britain and France have finally been opened and s...
Schools shut as toxic smog engulfs India's capital
Schools were shut across India's capital on Friday as a noxious grey smog engulfed the megacity and made life a misery for its 30...
Thai students at rival colleges turn to gang viole...
Pae was getting off the bus when a student from a rival Bangkok college shot him simply for wearing his uniform.
Students ordered to wear masks in smog-hit Lahore
Authorities in Pakistan ordered schoolchildren in the smog-smothered city of Lahore to wear masks during lessons starting Thursday...
School's out forever in ageing Japan
Fading photos of smiling children still adorn the staircase walls at the Ashigakubo primary school, one of thousands that have shu...
Pakistani schools for Afghans close as deportation...
Schools teaching Afghan children in Pakistan began to close on Monday as families went into hiding ahead of a deportation deadline...
France pays respects to teacher killed in Islamist...
A French teacher stabbed to death last week by an Islamist former pupil was to be laid to rest on Thursday, after a funeral in the...
Long-banned Alsatian finally allowed in French sch...
In a school in eastern France, teacher Sandra Cronimus greets her pupils every morning with a lusty "Guede morje!"
Teacher slain in French school, 'probably' tied to...
A Chechen-origin man fatally stabbed a teacher and severely wounded three other adults Friday at a school in northeastern France,...
Teacher stabbed to death in attack at French schoo...
A man of Chechen origin stabbed to death a teacher and severely wounded two other adults Friday at a school in northeastern France...
Bedbugs force closure of seven schools in France:...
France has been forced to shut seven schools over growing concerns over an infestation of bedbugs, Education Minister Gabriel Atta...
Protests against sex ed classes in Belgian schools
Dozens of demonstrators took to the streets of Brussels on Saturday to protest sex education courses in schools, which have sparke...
Belgium students' love story with Taylor Swift
A hubbub grips the class in the Belgian city of Ghent as university students eagerly discuss whether US pop star Taylor Swift is a...
Taiwan's TSMC to help train German students for se...
Germany's Saxony state signed an agreement with Taiwanese chip giant TSMC on Tuesday to train German students in an effort to meet...
Slowly but surely, French ex-PM edges to president...
His physical appearance transformed but largely pledging continuity with the rule of President Emmanuel Macron, France's popular f...
Swiss students break world record for electric car...
From zero to 100 km/h in less than a second: a racing car built by students has broken the world record for electric vehicle accel...
US panel denounces France abaya ban as targeting M...
A US government advisory panel on Friday denounced ally France's ban on schoolgirls wearing abayas, saying the restriction on the...
Court backs French abaya Muslim dress ban in schoo...
France's top administrative court on Thursday upheld a government ban on traditional over-garments worn by some Muslim women in sc...
French schools refuse dozens of girls wearing Musl...
French schools sent dozens of girls home for refusing to remove their abayas -- an over-garment from the shoulders to the feet wor...
France imposes abaya ban on first day of school
French authorities were on Monday imposing a newly-announced ban on the abaya Muslim dress for women in schools, with over 500 est...
Children eager for school in Ukraine after living...
Makar and Nadiya Mikhailyuk chatter excitedly as they get ready for their first day back at school in Ukraine, after they and thei...
Belgian university enters new era with Taylor Swif...
From "Alice in Wonderland" to "The Great Gatsby", "Rebecca" to "Jane Eyre", the songs of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift are filled...
Nicaragua seizes Jesuit university
A Jesuit university in Nicaragua said Wednesday it is suspending classes and all other activities after the leftist government ann...
Hezbollah chief in new attack on same-sex relation...
The leader of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement on Saturday stepped up his attacks against the region's long-marginalised LGBT...
German teachers pushed out for calling out 'far-ri...
Two teachers have been pressured out of their jobs in a small German town after denouncing the alleged right-wing extremism of the...
US First Lady says 'proud' of return to UNESCO
US First Lady Jill Biden said on Tuesday she and her husband Joe were proud that their country had rejoined UNESCO, the UN cultura...
UK Roald Dahl Museum acknowledges author's 'undeni...
The Roald Dahl Museum in Britain has detailed work it is undertaking "towards combatting hate and prejudice," it said, acknowledgi...
Yolanda Diaz, the Communist rallying Spain's left
"Less noise and more talking" is the rallying cry of Spain's popular Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz, who's hoping her straight-talki...
In New York, over-enrolled school offers hope to m...
Last year siblings Eliezer, 10, and Elaiza, 12 traveled by bus and foot through eight countries from Venezuela to the United State...
Dangerous and degrading: pit toilets blight S.Afri...
Schools across rural South Africa have perilous and degrading pit latrines -- a heritage of the apartheid era that campaigners say...
56-year-old 'gaokao holdout' fails to make the cut...
After failing to achieve a high enough score on China's dreaded college entry exam for the 27th time, 56-year-old Liang Shi is beg...
US school test scores haven't recovered since pand...
American 13-year-olds continue to struggle academically in the wake of the pandemic, especially in mathematics, according to offic...