Death toll of students eating suspected poisonous food at a public school in the eastern Indian state of Bihar rose to 20, local police said Wednesday.
Overseas study tours have been suspended after Saturday's plane crash in San Francisco, which killed two Chinese girls from east China's Zhejiang Province.
Over Ninety percent of parents support educating minors about sex, and incorporating it into school education, the Beijing News, reported on Monday, citing a survey.
Over 60 students were hospitalized in northern Lebanon's port city of Tripoli on Thursday, after drinking contaminated tap water.
A stampede that caused the deaths of four students in central China's Hubei province on Wednesday was attributed to dereliction of duty, according to local officials.
The ministry called on educational departments at all levels to put students' safety at the first place and take measures to avoid accidents.
A number of schools in Fiji's Western Division will be forced to go on with the classes in makeshift tents in 2013 affected by tropical cyclone Evan that hit the country earlier this month, an education official said Friday.
One of the unexpected by-products of China's urbanization is the decline in rural schools over the past decade.
China has detained 93 people for spreading rumors of a forthcoming apocalypse.
A top official in the U.S. state of Texas on Monday urged school districts in the state to review their safety plans and implored those that have failed to do so to catch up.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday renewed his call urging President Barack Obama and Congress to impose tougher restrictions on guns following a horrific shooting rampage an elementary school in Newtown, the U.S. state of Connecticut, Friday, which left 28 people dead, including 20 children aged 6 to 7.
A suspect in a knife attack on students at an elementary school on Friday in central China's Henan Province have been arrested.
Friday's knife attack near a primary school in central Henan Province shocked the public across China.
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