Protesters consider ending occupation of Taiwan's parliamentProtesters said Monday they were considering ending their three-week occupation of Taiwan's parliament, after its Speaker intervened to try to end the standoff over a contentious services trade pact with China.
Protesters occupying Taiwan's parliament issue ultimatumProtesters barricaded themselves inside Taiwan's parliament for a third straight day, threatening "further action" if the government pushes ahead with its plans to ratify a contentious trade pact with China.
Black Harvard students target cliches via Tumblr blogBlack students at Harvard University, appropriating a line from a celebrated African-American poet, are harnessing social media to challenge racial stereotypes -- and inspiring similar blogs across the Atlantic.
St. Petersburg to publish book by Kazakh math prodigyAdilsultan Lepes, a student from Almaty, is publishing his book 'Alternative proof of 100 equations: Method of separating invariables' in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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43 killed in Nigeria in suspected Boko Haram school attackSuspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people on Tuesday in an attack on secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast.
Students launch fresh protests in VenezuelaAbout 2,000 students took the streets of the Venezuelan capital to protest the leftist government Thursday, a day after three people were shot dead and dozens injured.
Student kills two in Moscow school hostage crisisAn armed student on Monday briefly took 20 teenagers hostage in a Moscow school and killed a policeman and a teacher before being detained amid security jitters ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.
Two teens injured in Philadelphia school shootingTwo teenage American high school students were shot and injured Friday by a student gunman who whipped out a handgun at the end of the school day, police said.
New US school shooting on eve of Newtown anniversaryA schoolboy gunman wounded two fellow students Friday, one critically, before killing himself in the latest such US shooting on the the eve of the first anniversary of the Newtown massacre.