His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received Tuesday at Bayan Palace the head of Kuwait University teachers' board association, Dr. Mohammad Jassem Al-Khedhur, and society members.Read more

Scientists in California say they're one step closer to fusion energy, generating a reaction in which more energy came out of the fuel core than went into it. In what they're calling an incremental advance, the researchers report using 192 lasers to compress a pellet of fuel as a step toward creating a controlled fusion-energy reaction by mimicking the interiorRead more

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has announced a list, including the names of 105 foreign online universities recommended for students in the UAE to enroll in them. Of those 46 are in the United Kingdom, 34 in the United States of America, 20 in Australia and five universities in New Zealand. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan,Read more

Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) recently hosted international students from renowned universities, for a series of educational visits. Students from Singapore Management University, Duke University, and San Francisco University, as well as faculty members visited the organisation's headquarters and met with senior management. Managers of different ENOC businesses explained the diverse aspects of the company's businesses, covering environment, health, safetyRead more

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid inaugurated the first Afghan agricultural university in southern Kandahar province on Saturday. "The National Agricultural Science and Technology University is a key achievement for the higher education of Afghanistan. It is an important step forward for the upgrading of agriculture in the country," Karzai said in his addressRead more

South Korea's free economic zone (FEZ) committee on Friday approved the opening of a local campus of the University of Utah, a move aimed at attracting foreign students and investors to the country. The Asian campus of the U.S. school is set to open in Incheon, home to one of the country's largest FEZs, according to the Ministry of Trade,Read more

Education Minister Dr. Majid Al Nuaimi patronised the e-Learning Exhibition, 2014, organised by the King Hamad's Schools of the Future Project Directorate at Bahrain City Centre, under the theme of “Towards e-Learning”.The Minister toured the exhibition which included a number of the best applications and experiences in e-learning that were provided by 8 boys and girls schools from various grades.TheRead more

Two people were shot in suburban Chicago Thursday, prompting a lockdown that delayed the opening of city schools, police in Romeoville said. The "soft lockdown" was lifted by mid-morning as police investigated the shooting, which occurred around 7 a.m. CST two blocks from an elementary school. The two victims were transported to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately announcedRead more

After leaving 772,000 customers without power in U.S. southern states, a storm headed northeast Thursday, with some areas expecting double-digit snowfalls. The Office of Personnel Management Federal ordered government offices closed in Washington as the nation's capital was bracing for a possible 10 inches of snow, CNN said. Philadelphia could see as much as 11 inches of snow, New YorkRead more

More than 20 years after an English teenager died in a violent knife attack in an alley in Kent, investigators say they have identified her killer. Kent Police said Colin Ash-Smith, 45, will be charged with the murder of Claire Tiltman, the Daily Express reported. He is scheduled to appear before a magistrate Feb. 28. Claire died four days afterRead more