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When Tyler Anastopoulos got in trouble for skipping detention at City View Junior/Senior High School in Wichita Falls, Texas, last year, he received the same punishment that students in rural [...]

The article reports on a new law in Romania which subjects witches, astrologers and fortune-tellers to a 16 percent income tax.

The article presents statistics on various topics including the percentage of U.S. citizens who think the posting of confidential documents at Wikileaks could hurt U.S. security, amount by which the population of Japan will drop on the next 40 years and the number of people who died from gun violence in the U.S. in 2007.

The article offers information on Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy in Minturn, Colorado, the only public winter-sports school in the U.S. founded in 2007.

The article focuses on a study from the University of Florida which found that modern humans started wearing clothing 170,000 years ago, about the same time as the second-to-last Ice Age, 180,000 years ago.

The article reports on the move of Nic Ramos, a sophomore student at the University of Colorado, to pay his 14,309.51 U.S. dollars tuition fee with one-dollar bills, fifty-cent coin and a penny, to show his opposition to tuition increases.

The article reports on the vocabulary training being conducted by psychologist John Pilley on his dog Chaser, who has learned 1,022 nouns.

The article reports on the construction of the Royal Mecca Clock Tower, a shopping mall and a hotel, south of Kaaba, considered to be the "House of God," located at the center of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The article reports on the concern of the residents of Silveiras, Brazil, on the decreasing number of içás or the queen ants that they have eaten for generations, due to the pesticides sprayed on eucalyptus.