Police fired tear gas at university students in Cairo on Sunday as they demonstrated in support of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, two days ahead of a referendum on a new constitution. Clashes between police and the protesters erupted in front of Cairo University, al-Azhar University and Ain Shams University, security officials said, adding that 19 students, including four women, wereRead more

The IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, a Turkish aid NGO, has laid the foundations of a new educational campus for orphans in Pakistan in the town of Haripur. Hundreds of children were left fatherless and motherless in the country after the earthquake in 2005 and flooding disaster in 2010. Having previously assisted needy families in Pakistan with social responsibility projects, IHHRead more

The All-in-One Municipal Centre issues building construction licensures for investment, strategic public projects emanating from keenness on the part of the Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning on facilitating and expediting the provision of services in compliance with the directives of HRH the Prime Minister and removal of any challenges which might impede the accomplishing of projects to ensureRead more

Japanese researchers said they found a new way to define tsunamis: Observe magnetic fields generated by tsunami-induced movements of seawater. The researchers said such observations make it easier to determine the direction, size and arrival time of a tsunami, Jiji Press reported Thursday. The team said it successfully detected magnetic fields generated as tsunami spread after a massive earthquake offRead more

Cutbacks in research in Canada are alarming scientists who called the reductions an "assault on knowledge." Scientists said the federal cutbacks to research programs monitoring areas ranging from climate change to public health will deprive Canadians of critical information, CBC reported Friday. "What's important is the scale of the assault on knowledge, and on our ability to know about ourselvesRead more

A teacher at a private elementary school in New Jersey said as she celebrated her 100th birthday that being around children keeps her young. The Sundance School in North Plainfield held a party Friday for Agnes "Granny" Zhelesnik, believed to be the oldest active teacher in the United States, the (Newark) Star-Ledger reported. Zhelesnik started teaching cooking and sewing atRead more

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has praised a 17-year-old Pakistani boy who died after he stopped a terrorist from detonating a suicide vest at his school. In a statement, Karzai urged Pakistan to join Afghanistan in a joint campaign against terrorism, which he said threatened the citizens of both countries, Khaama Press reported Saturday. The teenager, Aitzaz Hassan, died Monday afterRead more

A Palestinian chief prosecutor and a senior police officer concluded a study trip to Norway to further improve cooperation between the two institutions in dealing with child victims and witnesses of domestic violence, a press release by the European Union's police support group, EUPOL COPPS, said on Friday.The aim of the three-day visit, which was coordinated and supported by EUPOLRead more

The prime minister of Pakistan recommended a teenager who died preventing a suicide attack at his school be awarded the Sitara-e-Shujaat. Aitazaz Hassan Bangash, a ninth grader at Ibrahimzai School in the Hangu district of northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was killed Monday when he stopped a suicide bomber from entering his school during a morning assembly, The News International reported.Read more

President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday raised concern on the quality of education, saying that none of the Indian universities figure in the top 200 institutions of the world. While addressing the students and faculty of central universities, IITs, NITs and other institutions through video-conferencing, Mukherjee said that institutions should take the university ranking process seriously to boost the morale ofRead more