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Send books not guns, Malala pleads at UN
With a maturity and poise that belied her tender years, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot by the Taliban for championing girls' education stood by world leaders on Wednesday and called for books not guns.
27 September 2013
Correctional camp for gilded youth opens near Astana
A camp for correctional education of Kazakhstan's gilded youth has opened up in some depressed village in Akmola oblast.
09 August 2013
Armed teen shot dead by police in New York City
Police in New York City shot dead a 14-year-old US boy as he was chasing and shooting at another male before dawn on Sunday.
05 August 2013
PNG girl beheads father after he rapes her: report
A teenage girl beheaded her father with a bush knife after he raped her at their home in Papua New Guinea, a report said Monday, with community leaders protecting her, saying the man deserved to die.
17 June 2013
Wave of strange double suicides sweeps through Kazakhstan
An Internet group of young suiciders may be behind the series of the tragic events in Kazakhstan.
12 June 2013
Four arrested over blaze at London Islamic school
Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with a fire at an Islamic boarding school in London, police said Monday, as they stepped up patrols around Muslim sites in the capital.
11 June 2013
US student planned 'grim reaper' Columbine-style attack
A judge set bail at $2 million Tuesday for a US teenager accused of planning a Columbine-style attack on his school using explosives and guns.
29 May 2013
Up to one-fifth of US youth have mental disorder: CDC
As many as one-fifth of American children and teens suffer from a mental disorder such as anxiety or depression and the incidence of such ailments is rising.
17 May 2013
Three women, missing for a decade, found alive in US
Three young women who had been missing for a decade -- two of whom disappeared as teenagers -- were found alive in a house in Cleveland.
08 May 2013
Two teens take lives over unfinished homework: media
Two teens in eastern China committed suicide after "failing to complete homework assignments" state-run media said on Friday, in an extreme case highlighting the immense pressure schoolchildren can face.
04 May 2013
French teen killer bought Kalashnikov on Internet
A French teenager who used a Kalashnikov to shoot three men dead obtained his murder weapon on the Internet.
27 April 2013
US suicide teen's parents sue alleged sex attackers
The family of a 15-year-old US girl who killed herself after she was sexually assaulted while drunk are suing three teenage boys accused of the attack and sharing a photo of it at their school.
16 April 2013
Vintage website seen as glimpse at teenage Zuckerberg
A website thought to be the handiwork of Mark Zuckerberg at the age of 15 resurfaced on the Internet on Thursday, providing a glimpse into the early days of the famed Facebook co-founder.
05 April 2013
From bedroom to boardroom: UK teen turns tech millionaire
Like many British teenagers, Nick D'Aloisio has a hole in the knee of his jeans and gets in trouble when his bedroom is untidy. Unlike most, the 17-year-old has just sold an app to Yahoo! for tens of millions of pounds.
28 March 2013
Teenagers, sex, alcohol and cameras: a dangerous mix
A video of high school boys laughing about watching the rape of a "dead" drunk teenage girl who "deserved to be peed on" drew a horde of reporters to a small Ohio town for a trial.
14 March 2013
US teens go mobile for Internet: survey
Most American teenagers use their phones to access the Internet, with one-fourth of them going online mostly on their mobile device.
13 March 2013
Tibetan teens in rare double immolation: reports
Two Tibetan teenagers died after they set fire to themselves in protest at Chinese rule, reports and Western rights groups said, in a rare instance of a double self-immolation in the restive region.
21 February 2013
Australian teen survives nine weeks in wild
An Australian teenager who went missing from his home in Sydney more than two months ago was discovered emaciated, exhausted and covered in leeches, but alive in bushland north of the city.
28 January 2013
Twenty rescued as floods sweep northeast Australia
A teenage boy was dramatically rescued from surging floodwaters as he clung to a tree Friday, while others were plucked from stranded cars and homes as floods swept northeastern Australia.
27 January 2013
US police arrest girl who threatened high school slaughter
Police in Arizona said they arrested Thursday a 16 year-old female student who threatened in an online video to "kill everyone" at her high school then kill herself.
21 December 2012