ROME- The Italian Senate on Thursday approved a plan by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to radically reform the university system that has sparked mass student protests. The university...

ABU DHABI- The United Arab Emirates has eased its tough rules for foreign workers who want to change employer, loosening the controversial "sponsor" system in force in the Arab states of the Gulf....

BEIJING- The operator of an unlicensed shelter for disabled people in southwest China sold at least 70 mentally ill workers into slavery in recent years, local authorities told state press...

SALT LAKE CITY- A homeless street preacher was found guilty Friday of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and raping her during a nine-month ordeal, after jurors rejected a plea of insanity. The jury...

LONDON, Danny Kemp- Rioters battled police outside parliament and attacked a car carrying the heir to the throne Prince Charles on Thursday as Britain's coalition survived a major test in a vote to...

NEW DELHI- A leading American university Wednesday announced a tie-up with an Indian business school in a further sign of foreign institutions looking to benefit from India's giant further education...

WASHINGTON- Elizabeth Edwards, the high-profile wife of former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, died of cancer at 61 in her home in North Carolina on Tuesday, a family friend...

KUALA LUMPUR - The marriage of a 14-year-old Muslim girl in a Malaysian mass wedding triggered calls Monday for reform, and restraint by religious courts empowered to approve underage unions....

SHANGHAI- A Chinese university said Saturday it had recruited Luc Montagnier, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine who jointly discovered the virus that causes AIDS. Jiaotong University...