Some schools are experimenting with a new way around the snow day dilemma: Telecommuting. When Northern New Jersey schools closed due to Hurricane Sandy two years ago, one superintendent decided to try replacing in-class teaching with virtual lessons.

There’s a growing body of butlers, cooks, estate managers, private security, maids, art advisors, and chiefs of staff employed by the wealthiest Americans. The really eye-popping part: salaries get as high as $250,000 per year.

Sectarian violence in Central African Violence is hitting a new high, prompting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to admit that “the de facto partition of the Central African Republic is a distinct risk”.

Bombs and bullets may be killing people by the busloads, but Pakistan’s Islamists know what the real threat to Pakistan is: Valentine’s Day.

Student protests that began two weeks ago got more serious today when opposition leaders joined a massive march through Caracas. Scores of people have been detained by police, three people were killed, a number of police vehicles burned, and some government offices were vandalized during the protests.

It’s not just German households and businesses struggling under the yoke of the country’s ill-conceived green energy scheme. The ripples from Berlin’s energiewende are extended in to Austria, where excess renewable energy is straining the German neighbor’s grid.

Researchers at California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) made huge progress in the quest for energy’s holy grail in the journal Nature yesterday, revealing that a fusion reaction produced more energy than it required last fall. Take that, Malthus.

A college degree is worth more now than ever before, while a high school degree alone is worth much less. We need to make college education more affordable to better prepare students for the workforce.

Barack Obama was supposed to be the President who mended ties and restored America’s image around the world. Instead, the world is rallying against U.S. leadership on many important issues. Internet governance is only the latest sample of the consequences of the President’s bad management.

Pakistan’s new army chief, arguably the most powerful man in the country, recently wrapped up his first foreign visit to none other than Saudi Arabia. Now that the possibility of an Iran-United States rapprochement has increased, the Gulf Arabs are looking to Pakistan as a possible counterweight.