Academics are among the refugees – such as these crossing Croatia – fleeing fighting and often persecution in Syria to build new lives elsewhere

Universities must broaden their outreach activities beyond sport if they are to encourage more white working-class boys to enter higher education, a study suggests.

It's just a little sting, so slight often the victim doesn't even feel it.

Shortly after 7 p.m. on January 12, 2015, a message from a secure computer terminal at Banco del Austro (BDA) in Ecuador instructed San Francisco-based Wells Fargo to transfer money to bank accounts in Hong Kong.

In the Middle East and North Africa, many researchers don't boast about their findings, explains one expert.

For seven days and counting, dozens of Seattle University students have been holding a sit-in in the lobby of a university administrative building, demanding an overhaul of one of the university’s elite programs and the resignation of a college dean.

Michael Gillenwater was so tired he was mixing up his words, worn out from weeks of conference calls with the United Nations, the German government and more.

As the world moves to slash CO2 emissions, the shipping and aviation sectors have managed to remain on the sidelines.

Peer pressure and departmental culture, not a divide between quantitative and qualitative disciplines, may explain the variations between marks awarded to students in different subjects.

For the past two nights, amid a dazzling, world famous skyline, the International Commerce Center -- Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper -- has glimmered with a secret message.