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The Higher Education Scandal
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is an institution of good reputation and high quality, where I have some friends. It offers a liberal arts education typical of the best available in America today. It troubles me that Bowdoin, rather than, say, Harvard--a bigger and richer place where I work--should be made an example of. Nonetheless, Peter Wood and Michael Toscano have done just that in a ...
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Majority of Israeli students work while studying
About 73% of students in the country worked during the 2012-2013 academic year, earning an average monthly wage of NIS 3,230, according to a survey released by the National Union of Israel Students on Sunday, to mark National Student Week.Some 71% of the working students work up to 100 hours each month. about a third of the students - 29% - work over 100 hours a month.In addition, while 10% ...
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QA “Video Puts the Human into Human Rights”
- "We live in a world where billions of citizen witnesses have cameras in their pockets. The opportunities are endless to document human rights violations," Chris Michael, head of training and partnerships ...
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Farmer accuses police of acting illegally after they refuse to hand back shotgun he fired at thief
Claims police acted illegally: Farmer Bill Edwards (right) is struggling to find work after police confiscated his weapons because he shot at metal thief David Taylor (left) as he tried to flee the scene in a van loaded with stolen ...
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Newark gas explosion Retired company director and daughter-in-law killed as its revealed baby was pulled from rubble
Company director Leslie Rourke was helping 42-year-old son Nick and his wife Jeanette renovate the central heating system at their terraced house when a blast akin to a ‘sonic boom’ shook their ...
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Google boss Eric Schmidt sneaks out of the No. 10 back door after Cameron refused to challenge him over evil tax avoidance at summit
The Prime Minister briefed business advisers on his plans for tackling global tax dodging but did not directly criticise Eric Schmidt over Google's arrangements which were last week branded ‘evil’ by ...
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Bad weather coming -- are you safe
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Tornadoes destroyed homes and tossed trees around like toothpicks as powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday. And the destructive weather, which killed at least two people, isn't ...
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Millionaire sexually assaulted young woman on Bondi Beach and then told her he had a lot of money court told
A British millionaire whose company specialises in loans for people with poor credit ratings told a woman he is accused of sexually assaulting in Australia that his wealth would protect him, a court in Sydney has ...
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British man Julian Stevenson due in court after confessing to slitting his childrens throats
A 48-year-old British man has appeared in a French court today after allegedly confessing to killing his two children by slitting their ...
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Associated Press Financial Times and BBC have been hacked by them - but who are the Syrian Electronic Army
Earlier this month, several employees of the satirical news website The Onion received what looked like harmless unsolicited emails, containing apparently innocuous hyperlinks. One such message purported to be from an address at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees; it invited the recipient to click through to an article seemingly from The Washington Post. In fact, the link redirected to a page ...
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X marks the spot The find that could rewrite Australian history
According to the records, Australia was first discovered by Dutch explorers in the early 17th century. So how did 1,000-year-old copper coins from a former African sultanate end up on a remote Australian ...
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Anger as Barack Obama opens White House door to Burmese President despite recent claims of violence
Just eight months ago, Burma's President was still on a blacklist barring him from travelling to the United States. Now, the ugly past and anxieties about the future were set aside when Thein Sein was welcomed into the White House, becoming the first Burmese head of state to cross the threshold since Lyndon Johnson rolled out the red carpet for the military dictator Ne Win in ...
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Mexican opposition dispute goes public threatening reforms
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Divisions within Mexico's main conservative opposition party have erupted into a bitter public dispute that threatens to undermine the reform agenda of President Enrique Pena ...
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Gay marriage law strains UK Camerons leadership government
Civilly-partnered gay couple Tony (L) and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, of Chelmsford, Essex pose near the Houses of Parliament in London February 5, ...
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Kellogg re-inventing Special K brand
NEW YORK Special K was once just a line of cereals. Today, it's a diet food empire. The brand first hit shelves in 1955 as a no-frills breakfast alternative but now caters to dieters who see its airy chips and pastries as a way to beat cravings and lose weight. And this summer, Kellogg Co. ...
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Twister on demolition tour
Tornadoes ravaged parts of Oklahoma yesterday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. The tornado in Shawnee was one of several that touched down in America's midsection. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a massive storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. "You can see ...
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Airline makes bungladesh of African destination
Two United States holidaymakers found themselves a long way from their intended destination after an airline confused two airport codes. Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband, Triet Vo, wanted to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar in Senegal with Turkish Airlines. Instead they ended up almost 11,000km away in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, after the airport codes were mixed up, the Los Angeles Times ...
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Preschools may get right to bar unvaccinated children
Preschools and childcare centres in New South Wales may be given the legal right to refuse to enrol children who have not been vaccinated. The state Opposition will present legislation to Parliament allowing the right of refusal following declining rates of vaccination that in some parts of NSW are now lower than in Rwanda. Health authorities have warned that unless checked, the decline will ...
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Al-Qaeda linkage spurs rebel split
Jabhat al-Nusra, the much-feared militant jihadist group that has taken control of large rebel-held areas of northern Syria, has split in two following its leadership's public declaration of allegiance to al-Qaeda. Some of its fighters have withdrawn from the front line against the Assad regime in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, rebel leaders there have told the Daily Telegraph, and appear ...
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Gillard urged to ease Orwellian spy laws
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is coming under renewed pressure to ease the wave of draconian powers handed to Australia's domestic spy agency since the September 11 attacks on the United States. The more than 50 laws passed as Australia grew more fearful after the terror bombings in Bali, and of its embassy in Jakarta and other international targets, are tougher even than those imposed in the US ...
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Controversy-churning conservative talk-radio titans in danger of dying with ageing audience
When Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a "slut", he probably thought it was just another incendiary remark: the latest in a four-decade career full of and, arguably, built on incendiary remarks. In February 2012, Fluke, a 30-year-old graduate law student at Georgetown, appeared before Washington legislators to explain why her university ought to offer free contraception under its student health ...
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Fiancees past engulfs Kiwi
A New Zealand engineer has found himself at the centre of media attention in Australia after it emerged he is engaged to the former girlfriend of a jailed killer. Jeo Ipeekaw announced on Facebook that he was engaged to Bethany Heagney - the former girlfriend of two-time killer Mustapha Dib, who was last year sentenced to 30 years' jail for the murder of a pregnant woman in 2000. Sydney's Daily ...
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Powerful tornadoes lash US states
The central United States is bracing for another round of violent weather on Monday after high winds, hail, and tornadoes struck the region over the weekend, killing one man and injuring more than 20 people. Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska are all in the path of the storm system, which could produce up to 80 mile per hour winds, baseball-sized hail and violent tornadoes in some ...
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Severe weather
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Tornadoes destroyed homes and tossed trees around like toothpicks as powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday. And the destructive weather, which killed at least two people, isn't ...
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Severe weather
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Tornadoes destroyed homes and tossed trees around like toothpicks as powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday. And the destructive weather, which killed at least two people, isn't ...
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