The world is a scary place... and many countries have become too frightening for tourists.

Plenty of Chinese lawyers have been harassed, detained, even jailed in China but the photograph of one with his clothes reportedly torn off him by police has drawn plenty of attention in China.

Two years ago, Krzysztof Rybiński, a Polish economist leading a private university in Warsaw, was contacted by headhunters from Moscow.

Louisiana and other states are closer to reaching college completion goals as their emphasis shifts to more certificates in addition to degrees.

Google has banned an extension of its Chrome browser which was being used to identify Jewish names on the internet by surrounding them with three sets of brackets, or parentheses.

There are 7 billion people in the world. And a full 22% of them -- 1.6 billion -- are fasting from sunup to sundown. Every day. For an entire month.

Education Department will push to finalize rule on state approval of online programs before the end of the year.

A steel structure in the Amazon, taller than the Eiffel Tower, will soon begin monitoring the atmosphere above the world’s largest tropical forest,

Literary criticism has been taken to a new level by Holger Syme.

The vast majority of incoming high school seniors who could qualify for a state-funded scholarship are running the risk of losing out on the assistance that covers up to four years of college tuition