CARACAS, Venezuela - A group of college students ended a hunger strike after 17 days following a meeting Tuesday with Organization of American States representatives to air their concerns about human rights in Venezuela. Student leader Julio Rivas s
PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight students take a fitness course to graduate has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts. Officials at historically black Lincoln University sai
JERUSALEM Gaza-born Berlanty Azzam, 21, was two months from receiving her bachelor's degree from when the past caught up with her.During a routine stop at a West Bank checkpoint Oct. 28, an Israeli guard noticed Gaza City as the town of residence
SYDNEY - Members of an elite Australian college linked to Sydney University provoked outrage Tuesday after it was revealed they had set up a pro-rape group on social networking site Facebook. The page, set up by mostly past and present students a
LONDON - The parents of two French students brutally killed in London are demanding compensation from the British government for mistakes that could have prevented the murders, their lawyer said on Saturday. Laurent Bonomo's parents and the mother
LAHORE, Pakistan - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Pakistan had little choice but to take a more aggressive approach, starting last summer, to combatting Taliban and other extremist forces that threaten to destabili
The man who chaired a landmark inquiry into student finances has called for Scottish graduates to contribute towards the cost of their degrees.Up-front tuition fees were abolished in Scotland in 2000 following recommendations from Andrew Cubie. The
PARIS The president of the University of Toulon and two top aides were suspended Monday over accusations of irregularities in the admission and graduation of Chinese students allegedly ready to pay bribes for the prestige of a French diploma.The su
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