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The education secretary is like a “fanatical personal trainer” who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers’ leader is to say.
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By Eliza Shapiro, on May 17th, 2013 Eliza Shapiro reports on a new CDC study that paints a bleak picture of U.S. kids with mental disorders.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
Analysis suggests schools are facing an uphill battle to recruit head teachers, with one in four having to re-advertise jobs.
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A new report, based on 140 interviews with sex workers, clients, police, public health officials and NGO workers, calls on the government to legalise solicitation, end crackdowns and prohibit arbitrary arrests and detentions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A US hi-tech researcher whose family claims he was murdered in Singapore was under treatment for depression and left suicide notes before he was found hanged, a public inquiry was told yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Venezuelan better known to the world as Carlos the Jackal, returns to court on Monday to appeal his conviction for a series of deadly bombings in France 30 years ago. The 63-year-old, who has been imprisoned in France since being captured in Sudan in 1994, was found guilty in 2011 of masterminding the 1982 and 1983 attacks on two French passenger trains, a train station in Marseille and a Libyan magazine office in Paris. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The results, which need to be officially confirmed, indicated Sharif’s party has an overwhelming lead but would fall short of winning a majority of the 272 directly elected national assembly seats. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif declares victory in historic poll
By By ANNIE LOWREY, on May 10th, 2013 The anemic economy has left millions struggling to get ahead. Student debt is making it even harder for many of them, as they delay purchases of things like homes and cars.
Continue reading Student Loan Debt Is a Drag on the Economy, Too
By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> EU lawmakers will vote again on controversial plans to make polluters pay more for the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, after narrowly rejecting the proposal last month, a top MEP said on Tuesday. The European Parliament’s Environment Committee will issue a new report on June 19 on the plan to freeze pollution credits covering 900 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, committee head Matthias Groote said on his Twitter account. The “report will then be submitted to a vote in (parliament’s) July plenary session,” Groote added. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JONATHAN WEISMAN, on May 6th, 2013 The federal budget cuts known as sequestration are being felt across the country, with some programs coping, some struggling and others closing their doors.
Continue reading Sequester Leads to Creative Stopgap Measures
By , on May 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Portugal’s prime minister said on Saturday that the government aimed to slash 30,000 public sector jobs as part of a sweeping package of spending cuts to satisfy international creditors. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ISTANBUL (AP) — Workers around the world united in anger during May Day rallies Wednesday — from fury in Europe over austerity measures that have cut wages, reduced benefits and eliminated many jobs altogether, to rage in Asia over relentlessly low pay, the rising cost of living and hideous working conditions that have left hundreds dead in recent months. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By SUSAN STELLIN, on April 30th, 2013 Mobile devices grow more powerful by the day, and hotels, airports and airlines are struggling to keep up with customer demand for high-quality Wi-Fi service.
Continue reading Travelers Increasingly Demand High-Quality Wi-Fi
By By MARTIN FACKLER, on April 30th, 2013 Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are struggling to contain groundwater that is pouring into the plant’s reactor buildings by the minute.
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British advertising regulators have been accused of failing to protect children from aggressive marketing by food firms using internet games and online ads. The Children’s Food Campaign has called on ministers to introduce statutory regulation to close loopholes allowing ads banned from children’s television to be shown on manufacturers’ own child-friendly websites. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least 20 pickup trucks loaded with anti-aircraft guns blocked the roads while men armed with AK-47 and sniper rifles directed the traffic away from the building, witnesses said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Gunmen seeking ban on officials with Gaddafi ties blockade Libyan ministry
By , on April 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Yi Fuxian was trained as a clinic medicine specialist before obtaining a PhD in medicine in the United States, but the Hunan native is better known as a staunch critic of the mainland’s one-child policy, or family planning as authorities prefer to call it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Germany’s Greens, the country’s third-biggest political force, will hold a party congress this weekend, five months ahead of elections in which Chancellor Angela Merkel will seek a third term and the environmentalists could potentially play kingmaker. The Greens party, with its roots in the 1970s anti-nuclear and peace movements, are now mainstream and the preferred choice of well-off urbanites who shop organic and cycle to work. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four-year-old Wang Yanxia was considered lucky and a gift to her family — for she was born in the wake of the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Wenchuan, Sichuan, in 2008. But now her family is struggling to face the harsh truth that their daughter was killed in the Yaan quake. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Sichuan earthquakes bookend girl’s tragic life
By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The central and provincial governments may soon face a huge compensation bill in parts of Sichuan hit by Saturday’s magnitude 7 quake, with residents of the formerly cut-off Baoxing county expressing concern about whether they will be given enough to fix the damage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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‘Fanatical’ Gove attacked by union
The education secretary is like a “fanatical personal trainer” who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers’ leader is to say.
Continue reading ‘Fanatical’ Gove attacked by union
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