(Dân trí) - Đại tá - nhà thơ Hồng Thanh Quang chính thức trở thành Tổng Biên tập Báo Đại đoàn kết từ ngày 24/10. Trước khi giữ chức vụ này, nhà thơ Hồng Thanh Quang là Phó Tổng Biên tập báo Công an nhân dân, mang quân hàm Đại tá.

(Dân trí) - Bộ Quốc phòng vừa tổ chức Lễ trao quyết định thăng quân hàm cấp Thiếu tướng cho Đại tá Nguyễn Thiện Minh - sĩ quan biệt phái giữ chức vụ Vụ trưởng Vụ Giáo dục Quốc phòng Bộ GD-ĐT.
Trong quá trình công tác, Thiếu tướng Nguyễn Thiện Minh đã được tặng danh hiệu Nhà giáo Ưu tú năm (2007), Nhà giáo Nhân dân (2008) và Huy hiệu 30 năm tuổi Đảng.

Trước những nội dung bất cập trong cuốn "Từ điển tiếng Việt dành cho học sinh" được phản ánh gần đây, nhiều người đang đặt ra câu hỏi: Vậy tác giả Vũ Chất viết ra cuốn từ điển này là ai?
Để giải đáp về điều này, PV Báo điện tử Infonet đã liên hệ tới những người có uy tín trong lĩnh vực từ điển học để có thêm thông tin về tác giả Vũ Chất. Tuy nhiên, câu trả lời hầu như chỉ là những cái lắc đầu.

One of the richest prizes in the arts, the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, is being awarded to the artist Maya Lin.
The prize, now in its 21st year, was established by Lillian Gish's will, and it is given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life."

The Asia Society announced Tuesday that Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, would lead a new research institute it has created that specializes in Asian issues and policy making, a reflection of Asia's increasing global influence.
Mr. Rudd, 57, a longtime statesman, Asia scholar and fluent Mandarin speaker, will become the first president of the Asia Society Policy Institute in January. His appointment was announced six months after the Asia Societyofficially formed the institute, which it has described as "a new kind of think tank on the rise of Asia."

Since he took the job in 2006, worldwide malaria deaths have dropped 40 percent, to about 600,000 a year from one million.
Many countries now use the tactics Admiral Ziemer adopted after demanding proof that they worked. For prevention, they include free distribution of nets impregnated with insecticide, indoor pesticide spraying and routine doses of malaria medicine for pregnant women. For diagnosis and treatment, they include rapid blood tests and pills that combine a new fast-acting Chinese drug, artemisinin, with one of several longer-lasting drugs.

He is believed to be the only artist who still uses a fairly radical sales contract drafted by activists in 1970s that gives artists more leverage, in the art world, such as veto power over where their work can be shown and a 15 percent royalty when it is resold. Most collectors, naturally, loathed it even before contemporary art became the international banking system it is today.

At the height of the McCarthy era, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the government's top atomic physicist, came under suspicion as a Soviet spy.
After 19 days of secret hearings in April and May of 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission revoked his security clearance. The action brought his career to a humiliating close, and Oppenheimer, until then a hero of American science, lived out his life a broken man. But now, hundreds of newly declassified pages from the hearings suggest that Oppenheimer was anything but disloyal.

In a sign of the powerful resistance that big-city school chiefs face in trying to make sweeping changes, John E. Deasy, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, resigned on Thursday after reaching an agreement with the city's school board that ended his tumultuous three-and-a-half-year tenure.
Mr. Deasy, a strong proponent of new technology in schools and of holding teachers accountable for improving student test scores, had faced mounting criticism from board members and teachers who saw him as an enemy

The Army War College rescinded the master's degree of Senator John E. Walsh on Friday, determining that Mr. Walsh, a Montana Democrat, plagiarized his final paper there in 2007.
Mr. Walsh, a retired colonel in the National Guard, withdrew from this year's election in August, weeks after The New York Times reported that he had copied large portions of the paper he submitted as a requirement to graduate from the War College.
The determination was made by an academic review board composed of faculty members at the college, in Carlisle, Pa.