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Houses and shops could be turned into classrooms under new plans to make it easier for parents and teachers to set up their own schools, it was announced. Education Secretary Michael Gove revealed he has […] […]

HANOI – Thirty-five years after the Vietnam War, a US$300 million ($430 million) price tag has been placed on the most contentious legacy still tainting United States-Vietnam relations: Agent Orange. A joint panel of US […] […]

Lawmakers voted to end firing squad executions in Vietnam and instead use lethal injections. State media reported the change will take effect next year after Thursday’s vote by the National Assembly. Vietnam has numerous crimes […] […]

PARTS of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv disappeared under a sea of black hats as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews massed in protest against a High Court ruling ordering children from different groups to study […] […]

The police watchdog has published a report detailing failures by a force in the way it handled the case of a man wrongly imprisoned for sexual assault. Warren Blackwell, 40, was jailed after a woman […] […]

Washington has issued a travel alert for Americans who live in Toronto or plan to visit the city during the G20 summit. “Previous G20 summits have drawn large numbers of protesters and activists, and a […] […]

A teaching assistant at a London primary school who led a double life as an underworld armourer has been jailed for 30 months. Tyrone Cox, 26, helped supervise children as young as three during the […] […]

Neighbours today told of their shock at the suicide of a lesbian policewoman who had accused colleagues of homophobia. In a four-page suicide letter, Lara Goldie, 28, claimed staff at the Metropolitan Police’s Hendon training […] […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — For the first time since the World Cup began, South Africa’s beloved Nelson Mandela appeared in public Thursday. Instead of a triumphal moment in the world’s spotlight, a somber, frail Mandela attended […] […]

A sad 25-year saga comes to an end Thursday with the release of the Air India inquiry’s 4,000-page report, but the bombing has marked the victims’ families for life. The worst act of terrorism against […] […]