Blast near Kabul school injures around 50 children; UN condemns ‘heinous’ act

Hand grenade blast near school in Hazara neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi injures at least 50, local media reports A hand grenade explosion near a school in Kabul’s predominantly Hazara neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi injured several children on Monday afternoon, according to Afghan authorities and local media reports.Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran confirmed that “a number of children” […]

James Dacombe: The Gen Z founder who left school at 17 and built a $3.3 billion AI chip company, becoming Europe’s youngest self-made billionaire at 25 | World News

At 25, British entrepreneur James Dacombe has joined a rare group of young founders whose fortunes have crossed the billion-dollar mark before most people have settled into a career. The North Yorkshire-born programmer left school at 17 to focus on CoMind, the brain-technology company he had started as a teenager, choosing a path far removed […]

A California school has been sued after a field trip of students who were encouraged to wear hijab, given Qurans

Zahra Billoo, CAIR official, called the lawsuit misguided and said the participation of the students in that field trip was voluntary. Two Jewish parents, three former Jewish students, a Hindu parent and a Zoroastrian parent have sued Palo Alto Unified School District and Palo Alto High School principal Brent Kline after the students were encouraged […]

Meet Mira Trivedi, Indian-origin student in New Jersey who’s pushing her school to not call Hitler’s symbol ‘swastika’

Indian-origin New Jersey student Mira Trivedi said, “If we don’t protect our sacred symbols, then who will?” New Jersey’s Mira Trivedi grew up seeing the ‘swastika’ symbol used on every sacred occasion. When she was studying the Holocaust in eighth grade, her teacher referred to Hitler’s symbol as ‘swastika’. Trivedi said she always knew that […]

Jaipur school suicide: Parents release classroom CCTV clip, claim 9-year-old faced relentless bullying before jumping to death | Jaipur News

New footage shows repeated bullying and a lack of teacher intervention in the classroom. JAIPUR: Parents of a nine-year-old girl who allegedly died by suicide at Jaipur’s Neerja Modi School last year have released new CCTV footage from her classroom, alleging that she was repeatedly bullied by her classmates.Claiming that the teachers failed to respond […]

2 girls attacked with weapon at Germany school, teenager arrested

Police tape cordoning off Welfen High School, Schongau, Germany, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa via AP) A 16-year-old boy found carrying weapons was arrested after allegedly wounding two 13-year-old girls at a German high school Wednesday, police said. The suspect was carrying a knife and a firearm, but it wasn’t immediately clear how he […]

Paris Hilton is celebrating the closure of a 55-year-old school in Utah: Inside her long-time battle against the boarding school and why | World News

A 55-year-old school in Utah was recently ordered to close down and some, including Paris Hilton are celebrating online. On Monday, local news announced that the Utah Department of Health and Human Services had revoked the license of Provo Canyon School’s Springville campus.The school was cited for several violations including failing to maintain health and […]

Texas school was secretly using stolen gas to heat its classrooms, then one invisible leak killed 295 people in seconds | World News

A routine school day in the small town of New London, Texas, turned into one of the deadliest disasters in American history when a massive explosion ripped through the New London Consolidated School, reducing much of the five-year-old building to rubble in just a few seconds. By the time the dust settled, 295 people, most […]