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Uganda came under international condemnation in September following a continued ‘witch-hunt’ against homosexuals
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Muslims who wear a full veil have been banished from the halls of residence at Helwan University.
A Chinese university is requiring law and business students to take golf lessons.

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A Canadian university lecturer wants to smoke marijuana at work and has refused to enter his campus until he is allowed.
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China Bans AIDS Group

An AIDS group founded by university students in China has been banned.

Scientists claim to develop anti cancer virus

Scientists have claimed that they have developed a new genetically altered strain of a virus which is highly efficient in killing cancer cells.

Page 5 stunners demand more

Page 5 stunners in Romania have threatened to quit unless they are more ‘respect’.

One killed in gun rampage

Canada is still in shock following the college shootings in Montreal.
Darfur deaths top 200,000

Tony Blair joins call for international action to stop the deaths in Sudan.

Student returns from the dead

Taylor University in Indiana welcomed back to campus a classmate they had previously believed to be dead.

Computer says die

The introduction of a new system in China sees the fate of criminals, even whether they are executed or not, determined by a computer.

Nude pictures suspension

A fraternity has been suspended indefinitely for showing pictures of naked women to passers-by.

Player takes a stab at a first-team place

A substitute American football player at a US college is accused of stabbing the first choice in the leg.

Uni shut down student government

The student government at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaulkee has been shut down.

Thou shalt not talk drunken jibberish

Many of us suffer from making very little sense while drunk, and a quirky new Catholic prayer book might have the answer.
Elevator death

A student was crushed to death by an elevator at a dormitory at Ohio State University.
Miami smells what The Rock is cookin'

Wrestling hero and movie star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has given $2 million to a university.
Calendar banned from bookstore

A university bookstore has taken the decision not to stock the latest edition of a swimsuit calendar

Cartoonist draws Christian complaints

A college cartoonist in the US drew thousands of complaints from Christians after two of his cartoons were published in a student newspaper.

Five hoop-shooters shot

Officials at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA have said that five of their basketball players were shot on the night of September 16.

Scientists work on invisibility cloak

Yes, the science fiction dream could soon become a reality.

Student officially a woman

A South African student finally won a bizarre battle to be classified as a ‘woman’.