Miguel Vasquez is a busy man — a commercial real estate consultant and father of a 3-year-old — but has managed to devote time to mentor a teenage boy through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire.

It is widely regarded as a success — a voluntary program that has been a win-win for industry, consumers, and energy conservation.

Nationally, nearly half of all inmates released from prison return there after committing another crime.

Facebook Inc (FB.O) will hire 3,000 more people over the next year to speed up the removal of videos showing murder, suicide and other violent acts, in its most dramatic move yet to combat the biggest threat to its valuable public image.

FBI Director James Comey has said it makes him "mildly nauseous" to think that he could have had an impact on the US presidential election.

Northwestern’s journalism school drops its accreditor, shortly after Berkeley did the same, echoing broader questions about the value of the process and whether it impedes innovation.

The value of donations pledged to UK universities has increased by 23 per cent in the space of a year, exceeding £1 billion for the first time, according to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Europe.

A bipartisan bill to fund the government through the end of September protects higher-education programs that are under threat from the 2018 White House budget proposal

In 2009, the first photos started to trickle out of a Toyota Prius outfitted with a bizarre-looking metal contraption on the roof cruising the highways around Silicon Valley.

China is to launch an online version of its national encyclopaedia next year, to compete with Wikipedia.