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The flooding and landslides in a mountainous region of Brazil have reached 806 killed people, according to Brazilian government officials. The disaster is the second largest in Brazil and it has only been surpassed by a meningitis outbreak that killed 1,500 people in 1974....

A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems. As part of a pilot program, Roslyn High School on Long Island...

After 23 years of repression, Tunisia lives for the first time a big party, celebrating that dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali left the power eight days ago. On the streets the joy is felt, people paint walls with messages like “Freedom, democracy and secularism,”...