A university is being forced to hand out food parcels to students who have run out of money.

Plunging into cold water during hot weather can cause heart attacks even in young, fit and healthy individuals, according to new research.

A gunman has killed five people in a shooting spree before turning the gun on himself, authorities in Seattle said today.

Men's offices are dirtier than women's with significantly higher numbers of bacteria, a study has found.

A seven-decade old cultural taboo will be broken next month when an Israeli symphony orchestra will play works by Richard Wagner inside the country for the first time since the state's foundation in 1948.

Some good news to report: a school whose inadequate facilities were highlighted on these pages only last month has finally got the facelift it so badly needs.

Limited progress is being made in prising open the professions to all, with the senior ranks of politics, medicine, the law and journalism remaining a "closed shop", evidence from a new report suggested today.

British universities could lose out on millions of pounds annually if immigration policies are not changed, senior education figures have warned David Cameron.

Arno Lustiger, who died in Frankfurt on 15 May at the age of 88, was a Holocaust survivor and scholar who will be remembered for his research on Jewish resistance to the Nazis and on Gentiles who helped save Jews from the Holocaust.

A library building, first handed to the local community by Mark Twain more than one hundred years ago, will be put on the market after the council stripped the shelves of books in a dawn raid today.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has launched one of the most extraordinary tirades in the history of online diplomacy, using its Twitter feed to lambast the US Ambassador to the country as “unprofessional” in a barrage of furious tweets.

It’s London’s turn to host the biggest sporting event on the planet and while there’s a lot to live up to after Beijing’s spectacular success four years ago, the signs so far suggest a vintage Olympic year is ahead.

The annual AMBA conference calls for schools to move with the times, which will pose new challenges

Fewer than a third of the most senior jobs in the UK are held by women, according to new figures.