PTA teams up with Facebook to promote online safety for kids, parents

PTA joins with Facebook to promote Internet safety

Nebraska regents could vote Friday on whether Huskers go to Big Ten or stay in Big 12

Nebraska decision on Big Ten could come Friday

South African students do Zulu dance for Shakira, a performer at World Cup kickoff concert

South African students do a Zulu dance for Shakira

Syracuse, Colorado top list of BCS schools falling short of academic standards

2 BCS schools could lose basketball scholarships

NFL to fund scholarship honoring late Pat Tillman, part of Tillman Military Scholars program

NFL to fund scholarship honoring late Pat Tillman

Punjab to get over 7,000 teachers in a week

CHANDIGARH - At least 7,654 teachers will be posted within a week

in Punjab to meet the shortage of teachers, state Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur

2 Cal Polytechnic frat members get jail, probation for alcohol hazing death of pledge

Calif. frat members get jail time for hazing death

Job outlook brightens slightly for new grads; teachers, nurses struggle to start careers

Job outlook brightens for new grads _ just barely

Shakira does Waka Waka dance at a Soweto school ahead of World Cup opening

Shakira does Waka Waka in Soweto school

JOHANNESBURG — Pop star Shakira performed the African Waka Waka dance at a school in Soweto on Wednesday as she prepared for her World Cup opening concert performance.

Conn. senator says Machu Picchu artifacts held by Yale belong to people of Peru

Senator: Artifacts held by Yale belong to Peru

India-Sri Lankan knowledge initiative launched

NEW DELHI - India and Sri Lanka have agreed to start a knowledge initiative that will assist in making the island nation into a trilingual society and improving linkages between universities in the two countries.

Give poor students 3 IIT-JEE chances, says Super 30 founder

PATNA - Super 30, a Bihar-based free coaching centre for the poor, has requested union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal to allow poor students three chances to appear in the highly competitive IIT-JEE, in view of the vast disparity in the quality of education in cities and villages.

Aligarh university ties up with American varsity

LUCKNOW - The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of North Carolina (UNC) in the US for research and academic exchange, an official said.

Stephen Hawking joins Canada’s Perimeter Institute

TORONTO - Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s best known physicists, has become the first of 20 ‘distinguished research chairs’ at Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo near here.

Israeli, Palestinian officials say Israel eases Gaza blockade for some food items

Israel allows some once-banned products into Gaza

Students to get free access to e-books

NEW DELHI - College students across India will now get free access to e-journals and e-books from all over the world with the human resource development ministry subscribing to them.

Peruvian poet wins Chile’s Neruda Prize

Santiago, June 9 (IANS/EFE) Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros has been named the winner of the 2010 Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Prize.