Missiles hit a number of military sites in northern Syria on Sunday night, state media say, with unconfirmed reports of dozens of fatalities.

Australia has pledged more than 500 million Australian dollars ($379 miillion) to help preserve the Great Barrier Reef, in an attempt to help better protect the world heritage site from the effects of climate change.

If officials award more scholarships than budgeted for, should students lose funds? Is it fair to take away funds only from international students?

Thousands of former Corinthian Colleges students face a potentially pivotal court hearing Monday in a battle to erase millions of dollars in loan debt for their studies at the scandal-scarred, for-profit schools....

Less hard-working students who are placed in study groups with more diligent and less “risk-taking” peers get better grades without doing any extra work, according to a study.

Everett Community College has joined dozens of other higher education organizations in supporting a legal challenge of President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program that allows young people who arrived in the U.S. illegally as children to remain in the country.

As utilities face increasing pressure to cut back on fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy sources, many are turning to new technologies — including hardware, software and artificial intelligence — that can help them integrate and control distributed clean resources such as rooftop solar and batteries.

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More Chinese universities are embracing gaming as they see big job opportunities in the development of the sector, as Shi Futian reports.

In a bid to gain market share, publishers have slashed the cost of digital textbooks.