Pervez Musharraf, the former dictator of Pakistan who recently made a triumphant return to his country from exile only to be put under house arrest, has been charged with murdering former prime minister Benazir Bhutto today. Bhutto was killed in 2007, when a suicide bomber attacked a campaign rally only weeks after she returned to […]

When parents complain about the high cost of college tuition, college admissions officers often respond by pointing out that few students pay the full sticker price, due to scholarships and federal aid programs. According to the Department of Education, in the 2011-12 school year 57 percent of students relied on some form of federal aid, […]

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto isn’t the only one with a plan to reform Pemex, the country’s bloated, mismanaged oil and gas monopoly. His proposal, which involves reforms to the country’s constitution that would allow foreign firms access to Mexican hydrocarbons via profit-sharing agreements, will have the two-thirds majority it would need to pass the legislature […]

For once, some good news from the British National Health Service: physiotherapists and podiatrists will now be allowed to prescribe medication for their patients without doctor supervision. BBC: Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb said the move would not only benefit patients by making it more convenient to get treatment, but would also free up […]

At many schools across the country, playing Cops and Robbers is now a punishable offense. On the basis of zero tolerance policies for firearms and other weapons, teachers and administrators are going to war against imaginative games involving fake violence. As War Against Boys author Christina Hoff Sommers points out, this is not only absurd but also […]

Detroit’s public pensions aren’t taking bankruptcy lying down. Concerned that the city’s bankruptcy filing could lead to serious cutbacks, two funds are challenging the filing in court, charging that Governor Rick Snyder is violating the constitutional requirement that the state protect public pensions. In addition, the funds allege that the city has failed to prove […]

A top advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin came out forcefully against Ukraine’s  cozying up to the EU on Sunday, saying that it would be “suicidal” for the former Soviet state. This comes on the heels of Putin’s opening salvo in a potential trade war with  Ukraine last week, when Russia began discriminatory and costly […]

At the foot of Mount Fuji on Tuesday, Japan’s military held annual exercises with dozens of aircraft, 80 tanks, and 2,400 troops, the AP reports. Designed more as a spectacle than a training opportunity, the exercises focus on a scenario in which Japan is attacked from the sea. As a narrator explained the attack to […]

Is seven years old too early to start teaching computer science? Vietnam doesn’t think so.Google software engineer Neil Fraser visited a school in Vietnam where computer science classes begin in the second grade and continue right up to graduation. By fourth grade, students were already writing programs using loops, and by “grade 5 they are […]

There’s a fight going on in the tiny village of Balcombe that could have large implications for Britain’s energy security. The village has just a couple thousand residents, but it’s what lies underground that is causing the controversy. Cuadrilla, an oil and gas exploration firm, is drilling a well there to determine if the region’s […]