The 2014 assessment had 21,500 students in 840 schools tackle real-life challenges on computers, such as designing a safe bicycle lane and improving a pet iguana's habitat. The report found that 45 percent of girls and 42 percent of boys scored at or above proficient at understanding and using technology to develop solutions.
A Burger King in Helsinki, Finland is home to not one, but two saunas.
The city of Seattle, along with the state DOT and other agencies, is moving forward on a plan to clear out and clean up the unauthorized homeless camp under Interstate 5, known as 'the Jungle.'
A student at Mount Saint Vincent University says he was forced to sign an agreement that he would not discuss his mental health issues with his friends, or risk being evicted from residence.
Hundreds of people have been killed and wounded in Baghdad over the last week as a result of car bombings staged and detonated by the Islamic State group. The attacks come as the Parliament argues over who to appoint to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s cabinet and as security forces battle the militant group in Iraq’s western Anbar province.
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Decisions about competition for the LRV and UH-1N show why McCain’s initiative against USD AT&L really matters.
Senator John McCain of Arizona, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, wants to blow up the Pentagon’s Under Secretariat for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD AT&L). More specifically, his committee’s writing of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2017 would cleave that office into two new under secretariats... Читать дальше...
Tax cuts have allowed people like Bill Self, head coach of the University of Kansas' men's basketball team, to pay almost no income tax. KCUR reports.
Maroon 5's bassist took a deal in an East Village cocaine case Tuesday in which he was arrested with Ivanka Trump's producer ex-boyfriend.
UnREAL co-stars Freddie Stroma and Johanna Braddy are engaged! “We can confirm that Freddie Stroma and Johanna Braddy are engaged,” the 29-year-old actor’s rep told People. “The proposal happened Sunday in Vancouver. They are both thrilled.” The couple met on the set of their hit Lifetime show. Both Freddie and Johanna won’t be back for [...]
The Warriors’ 108-102 loss to Oklahoma City in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals represented the first time they had lost the opening game of a playoff series in head coach Steve Kerr’s tenure, their first home loss this postseason and the first time in 38 tries this season that they couldn’t hold a double-digit halftime lead. [...] the Warriors weren’t the Warriors on Monday night. “To me, the Warriors played out of character,” TNT analyst Reggie Miller said Tuesday. The Warriors scored 60 first-half points... Читать дальше...
Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday flagged off the trial run of a driverless Metro train here.
Police Sergeant Tim Farris was patrolling the streets of Portland, Maine early Tuesday morning when he caught a very different kind of speeder on his dashboard camera — a meteor.
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The West failed to finish the job in 2011; now it must deal with the problem as soon as possible, writes Peter Fabricius
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Yu Darvish struck out six while throwing 68 pitches in his fourth rehab start, and could be back in the Texas Rangers rotation by the end of the month.
Market sentiment is extremely bearish, BofAML reports — at the same time the bank's research team calls for traders to go short.
J.K. Rowling held up Donald Trump as an example of the importance of freedom of expression in her remarks Monday night at the PEN America Literary Gala, where she received the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award. Photo/Video: PEN America
Een kleuter van basisschool Het Ruimteschip in Hoogezand is dinsdagmiddag opgenomen in het ziekenhuis nadat hij een xtc-pil had gegeten.
On Saturday, three people died and thirty were injured during a gun battle over control of a cemetery in Moscow. Just a few hours later, the Russian pop star Sergey Lazarev failed to win the Eurovision Song Contest, in Stockholm, losing to a Ukrainian. This was the story of the day, and it has left Russians beside themselves over what they are calling a great Eurovision vote fix.
Delhi simmered on Tuesday with the maximum temperature at 43.3 degrees Celsius, over three notches over average, while Wednesday is expected to be even hotter with mercury expected to reach 44 degrees.
The top 10 movies on the iTunes Store iTunes Movies U.S. charts for week ending May 15, 2016: iTunes Movies US Charts: Star Wars: Regression The 5th Wave The Hateful Eight iTunes Movies US Charts - Independent: Birth of a Legend The Grand Budapest Hotel The Spectacular Now Search Party Room
Terör örgütü PKK’nın yurtdışı ve içindeki kamplarına yönelik son günlerde yoğunlaştırılan hava operasyonları nedeniyle Diyarbakır’a 25 adet takviye F-16 savaş uçağı gönderildi.Devamı için tıklayınız
