5 h. ago AP PHOTOS: A school under a highway is a sanctuary for disadvantaged children in India

It’s early morning at a traffic intersection in Thane, a city on the outskirts of Mumbai, the bustling financial capital of India that's home to more than 20 million people. The roads are already crowded with commuters, while engines and horns fill the air with noise that's amplified by the highway overhead.

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25 h. ago 9 playground crazes and toys of the 1990s you'll remember if you went to school back then

If you went to school in the 1990s, this retro photo gallery is bound to bring memories flooding back.

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65 h. ago Teacher's sick excuse for sending nudes to pupil at special needs school

Megan Lanning, 36, admitted sending two nude photographs to a student at Ripplevale School and College in Rochester, Kent, and has been banned from the profession indefinitely

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68 h. ago Drama teacher who sent student naked selfies to 'give all of me' given lifetime ban

Megan Lanning, 36, admitted sending two nude photographs to a student at Ripplevale School and College in Rochester, Kent, and has been banned from the profession indefinitely

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5 d. ago Law firm supports disadvantaged children and young people with 2025 fundraising challenge

Staff at law firm Aberdein Considine from Peterhead to Manchester will be swapping their suits for active wear as they take on a series of fundraising challenges in aid of the firm’s 2025 charity partners, Cash for Kids and the Russell Anderson Foundation (RAF).

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2 w. ago 39 pictures which show what school in Wales was like over 50 years ago

The black and white photos show what school was like up to 125-years-ago

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2 w. ago Polaroid Flip Instant Camera review: Flipping fantastic or instantly useless?

We put the latest in old-school instant photography to the test

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2 w. ago ‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish

His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictionsThe early 1960s was, for my generation in Argentina, an age of discovery when, in our mid-teens, we learned about sex, metaphysics, the Beatles, Ezra Pound, Che Guevara, Fellini’s films, and the new literature of Latin America. In the bookstore around the corner from my school, there began to appear novels with black-and-white photographs on the dust jackets whose Spanish-language authors, while acknowledging Borges as the fons et origo of all literary endeavours, attempted to find in the 19th-century European realists new ways to depict the troubled reality of Spain and South America.One of those novels was La Ciudad y los Perros (The City and the Dogs, oddly translated into English as The Time of the Hero) by a young, unknown Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, who, in 1962, had won the recently c...

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3 w. ago High school students under investigation after posting photo posing with Nazi flag

Two individuals from Aurora High School have faced severe backlash for holding up the hate symbol

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