Girls' education campaigner Malala Yousafzai says the world must not stay silent over the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria.

Jet magazine, a six-decade-old magazine aimed at young African-Americans, has said it will stop publishing in print and become a digital app.

Gunmen in the Pakistani city of Multan shoot dead a lawyer defending a university lecturer accused of blasphemy, police and officials say.

Billionaire property developers Thomas and Raymond Kwok are due to go on trial in Hong Kong in the city's biggest ever corruption case.

A Peruvian air force officer, whose parachute malfunctioned during a training exercise, has survived a fall of about 1,500 metres (5,000 feet).

A Saudi court has sentenced blogger Raif Badawi to 10 years in prison for "insulting Islam" and setting up a liberal web forum, local media report.

Global education rankings, which include higher education as well a international school tests, are headed by South Korea, with the UK in sixth place.

Rising levels of CO2 around the world will significantly impact the nutrient content of crops according to a new study.