
Man shoots himself in head at Paris school
A dozen students and a teacher saw a man kill himself with a shot in the head at a private Catholic school on Thursday, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe ...

Va. Tech president retires, reflects on massacre
The president of Virginia Tech announced his retirement Tuesday, satisfied he had elevated the university's reputation and acknowledging that the ...

Greek anti-austerity strike threatens school exams
A union representing teachers at Greek state high schools on Friday called a series of strikes to start next week over new austerity cuts, in action ...

UMass: 1 arrested is suspended, 2 not enrolled
The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth has suspended one student charged in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings and says the other two ...
UK man pleads guilty over US school threat
A British man has pleaded guilty for threatening to kill 200 people in a Facebook posting that caused thousands of Tennessee children to stay home ...

Police arrest suspect in school shooting threat
Dutch police say they have arrested a suspect in an online threat to shoot a teacher and students that prompted authorities to close all the high ...

Boost for background checks: Senators compromise
Conservative senators from both parties announced their support for expanding background checks for gun buyers Wednesday, giving a burst of momentum ...

NRA study suggests trained, armed school staffers
The Senate gun control debate on the near horizon, a National Rifle Association-sponsored report on Tuesday proposed a program for schools to train ...
US school gunman interested in other mass murders
The young man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut school last year showed interest in other mass killings, people close to the investigation told ...
Researchers report sharp rise in 'patriot' groups
A civil rights group that tracks extremist groups warns that President Obama's tenure and the gun control debate after the Connecticut school shooting ...
House committee takes up school safety issues
The top Democrat on the House education committee says any discussion about school safety needs to be coupled with "common sense strategies to keep ...

Mali radicals recruited child soldiers at schools
The radical Islamic fighters showed up at Mohamed Salia's Quranic school, armed with weapons and demanding to address his students. The leader, named ...
UK authorities charge man in US school threat
A British man was charged Saturday after he allegedly posted a threat on Facebook to kill 200 people in the U.S. state of Tennessee, causing many ...

Conservatives make gun issue new rallying cry
An immigration debate is raging and a budget crisis looms in Congress, but the conservative activists gathered outside the New Hampshire Statehouse ...

Timbuktu manuscripts mostly safe, university says
Islamist extremists damaged or stole only a limited number of manuscripts in Timbuktu in Mali before they fled the fabled desert city, a South African ...

Somali government arrests 3 over scholarship fraud
Three officials have been arrested for mismanaging a scholarship scheme that sends Somali students to Turkey, Somalia's education minister said ...

Duncan: Hard to teach kids scared of being killed
Too many students worry more about being killed by a gun than learning in the classroom, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Thursday, as he ...

AP-GfK poll: 6 in 10 favor stricter gun laws
Nearly six in 10 Americans want stricter gun laws in the aftermath of last month's deadly school shooting in Connecticut, with majorities favoring a ...

Ex-lawmaker Giffords launches US gun control push
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched an initiative Tuesday to curb gun violence on the second anniversary of the Tucson ...

School offers fresh start for Sandy Hook kids
Sarah Caron made her son his favorite pancakes for breakfast and walked the second-grader to the top of the driveway for the school bus. "I hugged him ...
Wrestling cup renamed for school shooting victim
The Kiki Cup, an international Greco-Roman wrestling meet, is being renamed the Jack Pinto Cup in memory of the 6-year-old wrestler who was killed in ...

Paintings outrage Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan
Pakistan's leading arts college has pushed boundaries before in this conservative nation. But when a series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics in ...

AP PHOTOS: Remembering the Conn. shooting victims
The victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre have been laid to rest more than a week after the shootings. As the families and community grieve, they ...

Lawmakers look to restrict gun magazine capacity
Lawmakers from both parties voiced their willingness Sunday to pursue some changes to the nation's gun laws, but adamant opposition from the National ...