Every school has rules governing teacher behavior. Every state has laws against child abuse, and many specifically outlaw teachers taking sexual liberties with students. Every district has administrators who watch out for sexual misconduct by teachers.
A postcard mailed by a Japanese soldier from a World War II battlefield in Burma reached his friend 64 years after it was sent, thanks to a Japanese exchange student and the family of a former US soldier who kept the card.
Deep in the heart of northern Syria, close to the banks of the Euphrates River, archaeologists have uncovered a series of startling 11,000-year-old wall paintings and artefacts.
Some Chinese meat-processing enterprises have been granted the right to supply rabbit meat to Russia after the plants were inspected by Russian and Chinese specialists, Alexei Alexeyevko, press secretary of the Rosselkhoznadzor, has announced here.
Kosovo`s ethnic Albanian leaders renewed their vow Monday to unilaterally declare independence if a final round of internationally brokered negotiations fails to produce a settlement by Dec. 10.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on setting up a state committee in the country to counter illegal drugs, the Kremlin press office announced on Saturday.
Italy`s advertising watchdog said Friday it has banned an image by controversial photographer Oliviero Toscani for a clothing company which showed a naked anorexic woman.
Canada`s Sex Party, which advocates a "sex-positive culture," has taken the national postal service to court after letter carriers refused to deliver its sexually explicit pamphlets.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cecilia have divorced, the president`s office said on Thursday, ending rampant speculation about the state of their 11-year old marriage.
The murder of a young boy whose body was stuffed in a suitcase and thrown into a lake in a Sydney park has shocked Australia`s biggest city.
Prosecutors have charged nine people, including a lieutenant-colonel in Russia`s security service, with involvement in the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the Interfax news agency said on Wednesday.
Paris` subways slowed to a halt and rail lines were disrupted Thursday during a massive strike in France that was expected to give President Nicolas Sarkozy his first real test after five months in office.
Vladimir Bukovsky, a former Soviet dissident now living in Britain, who plans to run for the presidency in Russia, will arrive in the country on Tuesday after a 15-year absence.
Leader of BYT, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Yulia Timoshenko puts the blame for explosion of gas at an apartment block in the city of Dnepropetrovsk upon owners of Dneprogaz Company, a REGNUM correspondent quotes as saying it to reporters yesterday.
Russia`s heaviest-ever newborn baby, born in the Altai Territory in southern Siberia in September, has been allowed to go home, the chief of the department for infant pathology said Monday.
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on setting up a federal agency dedicated to securing Russia`s borders, the Kremlin press office announced on Saturday.
Former United Nations official Vladimir Kuznetsov has been sentenced in the U.S. to four years and three months in prison for money laundering. Kuznetsov was convicted of laundering $ 300,000 from firms seeking UN contracts.
Five of Moscow`s leading bookstores will begin selling the Russian translation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, at midnight, on October 13.
The uncle of the president of Russia▓ s republic of Ingushetia, kidnapped in March, was set free on Thursday without any ransom or conditions, sources from republican law enforcement agencies told Tass.
Control over money supply and demand must become a major instrument in the fight against the sharp increase in consumer prices in Russia, the finance minister said.
A self-professed art lover stood trial on Tuesday accused of damaging a $2-million painting by kissing it while wearing red lipstick.
About $18 billion a year has been drained from Africa by nearly two dozen wars in recent decades, a new report states, a price some officials say could`ve helped solve the AIDS crisis and created stronger economies in the world`s poorest region.
Putin approves demographic policy goals through 2025 - 1
15 million Russians visited resorts of Krasnodar Territory, Russia, this summer, a third more than last year. In the number of tourists, the domestic tourism to southern Russia overwhelmed overseas travel, which is usually about 5 million Russians.
France`s Albert Fert and German Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for a discovery that lets billions of computer users store reams of data on computer hard drives.