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Taliban torn over reforms one year after seizing p...
One year on from the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, some cracks are opening within their ranks over the crucial questio...
Canada Indigenous schools abuse: a timeline
For a century, tens of thousands of Indigenous, Inuit and Metis children in Canada were forcibly enrolled in state boarding school...
Report finds 'lackadaisical' police response to Te...
Texas state lawmakers on Sunday slammed law enforcement's slow response to the shooting in Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 childr...
Beijing delays school reopenings after new Covid o...
Most children in Beijing will not return to school next week as originally planned, Chinese officials said on Saturday, after an e...
English-language students swerve UK post Brexit
At the top of Calton Hill overlooking Edinburgh and the North Sea, a visiting English language student from France is in no doubt...
University tragedy brings to light 'dinosaur' stud...
After four people died in a Bolivian university stampede, an investigation into the role of a 52-year-old student has relaunched t...
Myanmar classrooms become latest battleground as j...
Myanmar students began a new school year on Thursday, with classrooms becoming the latest battleground in the polarised country --...
Brazil bagpipe band channels sound of Scotland
It's a gorgeous day at the beach in Brazil: the bright blue ocean sparkles in the sun, the palm trees sway in the breeze and the p...
Biden prays, lays wreath in Texas school massacre...
US President Joe Biden laid flowers and prayed Sunday at the makeshift shrine erected in Uvalde to the 19 children and two teacher...
Biden departs to console Texas town reeling from s...
US President Joe Biden departed for Uvalde on Sunday to console residents mourning 19 children and two teachers who were gunned do...
Pro-gun NRA to hold convention in US state where s...
US gun lobby group the National Rifle Association (NRA) will hold its annual convention in Texas on Friday, days after a horrific...
Maker of rifle used in Texas massacre to skip NRA...
Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the assault rifle used in the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, said Thursday it will not atten...
Texas police face scrutiny over 'late' massacre re...
Desperate parents scuffled with police and pleaded with them to storm the Texas school where a gunman ultimately killed 19 childre...
Texas massacre parents question 'late' police resp...
Witnesses to the Texas school shooting rampage on Thursday questioned the early police response to the massacre, as bereaved paren...
Grief turns to anger after gunman murders 21 at Te...
Grief at the massacre of 19 small children at an elementary school in Texas spilled into confrontation Wednesday, as angry questio...
'Nightmare' as gunman murders 19 children, two tea...
A tight-knit Latino community in Texas was wracked with grief Wednesday after a teen in body armor marched into an elementary scho...
Teen gunman kills 15 at Texas elementary school
An 18-year-old gunman killed 14 young children and a teacher at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, in the deadliest US scho...
Tokyo med school ordered to pay over gender discri...
A medical school in Tokyo that made it harder for female students to pass entrance exams was on Thursday ordered to pay compensati...
Rising student debt to worsen money woes of young...
Rhiannon Muise graduated from Edge Hill University in northwest England last year with a mountain of student debt, which is growin...
EU says Taliban 'not listening' to Afghans with gi...
The Taliban shutdown of girls' education shows the hardline Islamists' are not listening to the Afghan people and poses a major hu...
'Russia, our sacred state!': school reopens under...
In the playground of a school in the war-torn eastern Ukrainian town of Volnovakha, now under Moscow's control, children listen to...
Pope apologises to Canada's Indigenous for abuse a...
Pope Francis apologised Friday for abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada, telling Indigenous delegations at...
Nationwide protests if Afghan girls' schools stay...
Women's rights activists pledged Sunday to launch a wave of protests across Afghanistan if the Taliban fail to reopen girls' secon...
'What have we done wrong?' Afghan school girls for...
Atiya Azimi was up all night packing and repacking her bag, feverish at returning to school for the first time since the Taliban s...
Hope and fear as Afghan girls prepare for return t...
The reopening of secondary schools for girls across Afghanistan on Wednesday prompted joy and apprehension among the tens of thous...
Afghan girls head back to school as Taliban end ba...
Groups of girls headed back to class in the Afghan capital Wednesday after Taliban authorities announced the reopening of secondar...
Florida 'Don't say gay' bill spells headache for D...
Discontent is afoot at the happiest place on Earth, as Disney employees this week protested the company's reaction to Florida's so...
Black hair, white shoelaces: Japan school rules un...
Every school has its rules, but tough regulations at some Japanese institutions, mandating everything from black hair to white sho...
Polish school offers Ukraine teens 'semblance of n...
Stuck to the door of one Warsaw high school is the sign "Laskavo prosimo do shkoli", or "Welcome to school" in Ukrainian, along wi...
Florida lawmakers pass controversial 'Don't Say Ga...
Florida's state senate on Tuesday passed a controversial bill banning lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in element...
Putin digs in as evacuation corridors agreed in Uk...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is "going to plan", President Vladimir Putin said Thursday despite fierce resistance and deepening in...
Arab students stranded in Ukraine desperate to go...
Thousands of young Arabs who took up studies in Ukraine, often fleeing violence back home, are appealing to be rescued from a new...