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Today's youth are the best educated generation in history even though 130 million are still illiterate, according to a new U.N. report that urges greater investment to ensure universal primary schooling.

The U.N. World Youth Report 2005, which provided a snapshot of the 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24, found that more th...

Tokyo _ In the Spring of 2005, protesters all over China waved placards accusing the Japanese of turning their backs on history. Putting aside Beijing's own skewed historical interpretations for the time being, it's worth taking a moment to ask: How accurate are these claims that today's Japanese have forgotten the past? After 17 years of teaching Japanese university students about their nat...

Bee colonies can turn to anarchy when the queen dies and worker bees swap their normal habits for hedonism, researchers say.

The absence of the queen's pheromones makes worker bees abandon their normal role of policing the colony's reproductive behaviour, making the colony more vulnerable to parasitic bees from other colonies.

But at least the worker bees die happy in this lawless...

UNITED NATIONS -- Today's youth are the best educated generation in history even though 130 million are still illiterate, according to a new U.N. report that urges greater investment to ensure universal primary schooling.

The U.N. World Youth Report 2005, which provided a snapshot of the 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24, found that more than 500 million youths live on less than �...

Today's youth are the best educated generation in history even though 130 million are still illiterate, according to a new U.N. report that urges greater investment to ensure universal primary schooling.

The U.N. World Youth Report 2005, which provided a snapshot of the 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24, found that more than 500 million youths live on less than $2 a day and a record...

Christine Flemming is only three minutes older than her sister Charmaine.

Growing up, they shared virtually everything: same schools, same grades, same taste in music (calypso for one), same friends.

Now, the 19-year-old twins from the Caribbean island country of Barbados are sharing yet another experience: an undergraduate program in chemical engineering at Florida Tech in Melbourn...