Jennifer Azzi ready to be a coach at last, takes over struggling San Francisco program

At last, Jennifer Azzi ready to coach

SAN FRANCISCO — Since a few years into her professional playing career, Jennifer Azzi has kept a notebook detailing the traits she likes of all the different coaches in her life.

Colombia’s quirky and cerebral anti-politician is suddenly a leading presidential contender

Colombia anti-politician a contender for president

Vatican, opposed to embryonic cell use, finances adult stem cell study by American university

Vatican will finance adult stem cell research

Care, classes for labourers’ children at Games sites

NEW DELHI - Peering through a bioscope, drawing on slates, saying their mathematical tables — these aren’t scenes from a classroom but from makeshift daycare centres for the children of labourers working at Commonwealth Games sites in the capital.

Vatican finances adult stem cell research led by American university

Vatican finances adult stem cell research

ROME — The Vatican says it will finance new research into the potential use of adult stem cells in the treatment of intestinal and possibly other diseases.

1,000 more schools in educationally backward areas okayed

NEW DELHI - The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) Friday approved the setting up of 1,000 additional model schools by state governments in educationally backward blocks (EBBs), taking the total number of such schools to be established to 3,500.

UAE students to be trained on emergency response

Abu Dhabi, April 23 (IANS/WAM) School students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be trained on how to respond to risky and emergency situations, officials have said.