A Washington, D.C.-based “communications and research foundation” dedicated to free-market principles is turning the shareholder resolution process into a tool for shaming companies for taking on climate change.

Of all the criticism leveled at the Obama administration’s plan to rate colleges, perhaps the most widespread critique is that a ratings system will harm disadvantaged students' access to higher education.

Purdue University, which once defended the right of a private speaker to blaspheme Jesus, has banned an alumni donor from using the word “God” on a plaque because it might offend someone.

Brazilian farmers are battling a voracious caterpillar that likely arrived from Asia, challenging the agricultural superpower's widely touted mastery of tropical farming just as it is on the verge of becoming the world's top soybean producer.

Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews rallied in Jerusalem on Sunday to protest emerging legislation that could end their sweeping exemption from military service.

Saudi women activists have petitioned the country's consultative council to back a demand to curb the "absolute authority'' of male guardians over women in the ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom.

The world’s largest bitcoin exchange has suspended trading amid rumours of the theft of 744,000 BTC - worth around £251m.

Russia's government has designed new rules to combat fake degrees and dissertations.

Ukraine is beset by political turmoil the likes of which it hasn't seen in almost a decade.

Originally derided as a pricey niche product for geeks, tablet computers have become so common that supermarkets are now selling their own brands, pushing out low-cost rivals.