A nationwide consortium of food banks says ten percent of adults they serve are in college. That's three million college students a year going to food pantries so they don't go hungry.
A 7-year-old Japanese boy who disappeared nearly a week ago after his parents left him on the side of a mountain road to discipline him was found unharmed on Friday, the Japanese authorities said.
Disney had pushed China too hard, putting the company’s plans for a new theme park here in limbo. Now, Robert A. Iger wanted to kick the yearslong negotiations into high gear.
FONTENAY-SOUS-BOIS, France — There may be no part of French schooling apt to induce nausea and sweaty palms faster than the dreaded dictation. The teacher reads a passage from a famous work of French literature, and the student writes it down, verbatim. And is graded on every mistake.
Stealing food from a supermarket may not be a crime in Italyif you are homeless and hungry, the nation’s highest appeals court has ruled.
Corbis, the photography archive owned by Bill Gates that includes some of the most famous pictures ever made, has sold its image and licensing division to a Chinese company.
The shoes are paper replicas, meant to be burned as offerings to relatives who have died — a modern twist on an old Chinese custom. At specialty shops across this city, the bereaved can choose from an impressive array of goods to send to their departed loved ones, including Italian sports cars, smartphones, six-packs of beer, cigarettes, dress shirts and sports jackets.
A former admissions officer at Phillips Exeter Academy, a prestigious boarding school in New Hampshire, turned himself in to the Exeter police on Friday in connection with sexual assault charges stemming from the 1970s.
Economist Jonathan Levin will lead Stanford's Graduate School of Business, beginning in September, the university announced Monday.
Chance events play a much larger role in life than many people once imagined. Most of us have no difficulty recognizing luck when it’s on conspicuous display, as when someone wins the lottery. But randomness often plays out in subtle ways, and it’s easy to construct narratives that portray success as having been inevitable.