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MSNBC
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A powerful earthquake buried 900 students in central China on Monday and killed at least 107 people, as several schools and a water tower collapsed in the tremor, state media reported.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central China, but sent thousan..
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CNN
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A South African court on Monday postponed the trial of a former dormitory matron accused of abusing students at a school set up by Oprah Winfrey. A lawyer acting for Tiny Virginia Makopo said he needed more time to consult with his client. She is charged..
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BBC News
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Almost 900 students have been buried by collapsed buildings during an earthquake in south-western China, state media reports.
President Hu Jintao urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims of the quake, which hit 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan's..
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CNN
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Rescuers are searching for up to eight teenage students at an outdoor program who were missing after being swept away in a raging river in New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. At least three other students were rescued. Police Inspector Paul Jermy said we..
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MSNBC
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A British teacher jailed after she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was released Monday hours after Sudan's president pardoned her, a British Embassy spokesman said.
The teacher, Gillian Gibbons, said she did not intend to offend anyo..
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BBC News
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Hundreds of students have rioted against the police in central China.
Witnesses said the unrest, in the city of Zhengzhou in Henan province, was sparked on Wednesday after a student was beaten by police.
She had been selling items on the street, app..
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Al Jazeera
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The 10,000-seat coliseum was filled to capacity with many students and staff wearing the university's burnt orange and maroon colours.
Josh Rushing, Al Jazeera's US analyst, was in Blacksburg and said that prior to the event the queues for the memorial..
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Yahoo News
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The caterer at a dormitory on Bangladesh's Dhaka University has been fired after students complained they were served dog meat, officials said on Thursday.
Students at the Hajji Mohammad Mohsin Hall protested after a student suspected that the meat on..
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BBC News
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A woman seized and held captive by Pakistani religious students after being accused of running a brothel has been freed unharmed.
Two female relatives abducted by students from the Islamabad madrassa, were also freed, as were two policemen.
Before h..
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BBC News
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Dozens of young women from a religious school in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, have broken into an alleged brothel and kidnapped the owner.
The women, from the nearby Jamia Hafsa madrassa, burst in late on Tuesday, demanding the premises be shut down...
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