Veteran gold and diamond buyers sit on a small metal boat gliding down a river in southern Venezuela that brushes the borders of Brazil and Guyana.Armed with weighing scales,

Shintaro Ishihara has been a rare flamboyant presence in Japan's otherwise drab political world for half a century.

The debate about academic freedom at the new Yale-National University of Singapore (NUS) liberal arts college has continued unabated ...

Men in Black agents K and J may be about to recruit a new Russian assistant: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

China is stepping up its overseas training programme for presidents and vice presidents of public universities as it looks to upgrade higher education to compete with world-class systems and top universities internationally.

Figures show 'cultural shift' as students reject the excesses of the last two decades

Conservation organizations are working with industry to try to make beef production more sustainable.

Students at Yale University enrolled in elementary Bengali meet four days a week in a campus classroom, just like they would for any other course, but there is one big difference: their instructor is almost 300 miles away, in Ithaca, N.Y.

LSU Faculty Senate president Kevin Cope is challenging the consolidation of LSU's top leadership positions and the reorganization of the university's system.

In two years, Central Michigan University will field its first women's golf team.