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UC Berkeley Student Missing, 3 Others Injured in Nice Terror Attack
One student from the University of California Berkeley was missing and three others injured after the terror attack in Nice, France that killed at least 84. Nicolas Leslie, 20, is confirmed missing by the college, where he is a student. Leslie is a junior majoring in the College of Natural Resources, according to a statement by...
Police open fire on PNG student protest
Police in Papua New Guinea have opened fire on students protesting against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill. Several students were injured and opposition MPs said four were killed, but this has not been independently confirmed. The students were marching from their campus in the capital, Port Moresby, towards parliament where...
Segregation in US Schools Persists 62 Years After Court Ruling
The words are some of the most iconic to ever come out of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that in his 1954 opinion in the...
China investigates search engine Baidu after student’s death
China has launched an investigation into search giant Baidu after the death of a student who tried an experimental cancer therapy he found online. Wei Zexi, who died last month from a rare form of cancer, had sought the treatment from a hospital that came top of the list on his Baidu web search. Baidu has come under fire for...
Texas Teacher Arrested for Allegedly Hitting Student
A Texas school district placed a teacher on administrative leave after a video surfaced appearing to show her hitting a student in class, resulting in her arrest. “The Beaumont Independent School District can confirm that an Ozen High School teacher was arrested today for physically assaulting a student,” district...
Bangladesh student Nazimuddin Samad hacked to death
A Bangladeshi law student who had expressed secular views online has been killed in the capital, Dhaka. Nazimuddin Samad was hacked with machetes at a traffic junction late on Wednesday and then shot, police said. The 28-year-old was reported to have been an organiser of the Ganajagran Manch, a secular campaigning group. A...
Women’s college student president alerts police to ‘Trump 2016’ drawing, calls it ‘racist act’
Scripps College’s student president says she alerted campus police after “#trump2016” was found scrawled on a dorm room door, calling it “racist … violence,” according to an email she sent to the campus community, a copy of which was circulated Saturday on social media. “This morning,...
Professor holds and calms student’s baby through lecture after sitter called in sick
A Baylor University professor from Waco, Texas, is getting a lot of kudos on the Internet for stepping up after a student's babysitter fell through. Katy Humphrey, 33, told ABC News today that her professor Darryn Willoughby held her 4-month-old daughter, Millie, through an hour-long lecture earlier this month after her...
Spain Erasmus student bus crash ‘kills 13’
At least 13 people have been killed after a bus carrying foreign students crashed on a Spanish motorway between the cities of Barcelona and Valencia. Most of the 57 people on board the bus were students on the Erasmus programme who were returning to Barcelona after a trip to a fireworks festival. Footage from the scene shows a...
US student Otto Warmbier given hard labour in North Korea
US student Otto Warmbier has been given 15 years hard labour in North Korea for crimes against the state. Warmbier, 21, was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel while visiting North Korea in January. He later appeared on state TV apparently confessing and saying a church group had asked him to bring back...
U.S. student detained in North Korea confesses to ‘hostile act’
North Korea has allowed the world to get its first glimpse of Otto Frederick Warmbier, an American student at the University of Virginia, two months after his arrest. Warmbier is accused of trying to steal a North Korean banner, containing a political slogan that was hanging from the walls of his Pyongyang hotel. A North Korean...