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Harvard accused of racial screening

[2017-11-25 07:12]

BOSTON - The US Justice Department is investigating complaints that Harvard University intentionally limits the number of Asian-American students it admits, according to a report on Tuesday.

Unemployed graduate sues Oxford for $1.3 m over inadequate teaching

[2017-11-25 07:12]

An unemployed graduate is suing Oxford University because he did not get a first-class degree, which he claims hindered his chances of a lucrative legal career.

Most powerful battery within reach

[2017-11-25 07:12]

BERLIN - The German energy provider EWE and scientists from the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena said on Thursday that they have made progress in their plans to build the world's most powerful battery.

Female motorbike police rev up India's fight against gender crimes

[2017-11-25 07:12]

NEW DELHI - An all-female police motorbike squad is set to take to Delhi's streets next month, a senior police official said, as reports of violence against women rise in the Indian capital.

Light pollution rise casts dark shadow

[2017-11-24 07:54]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - The world's nights are getting alarmingly brighter, which is bad news for all sorts of creatures, humans included.

Polar bears may be on thin ice

[2017-11-24 07:54]

MOSCOW - A boatload of tourists in the Far Eastern Russian Arctic thought they were seeing clumps of ice on the shore, before the jaw-dropping realization that some 200 polar bears were roaming on the mountain slope.

Self-taught rocketman launches mission to prove Earth is flat

[2017-11-24 07:54]

NEW YORK - A self-taught rocket scientist in the United States will launch himself into the sky with a homemade rocket in a bid to prove the Earth is flat.

South Korea quiet for quake-delayed entrance exams

[2017-11-24 07:54]

SEOUL - An annual hush descended upon South Korea on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of students sat the crucial national college entrance exam, delayed for a week by a rare earthquake.

Umbrellas advised to ward off dingoes

[2017-11-24 07:54]

SYDNEY - Visitors to an Australian tourist hotspot have been advised to use umbrellas to protect themselves against dingo attacks, according to research.

On the road to promise and prospects

[2017-11-23 07:41]

WAKISO, Uganda - When war broke out in neighboring South Sudan in 2013, Gabriel Omiat became jobless and had to return to Uganda, with nothing much left.

Japan shoemakers make strides

[2017-11-23 07:41]

TOKYO - When Yohei Fukuda left for England more than a decade ago to learn his trade as a master leather shoemaker, he could hardly have imagined that his native Japan would one day become a leader in this traditionally European art.

Beatle's stolen diaries, glasses recovered from auction house

[2017-11-23 07:41]

BERLIN - Diaries, prescription glasses and a cigarette case are among some 100 items belonging to John Lennon that have been recovered in Berlin after they were allegedly stolen by Yoko Ono's driver last year, German officials said on Tuesday.

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