It looked at the level of classroom disruption in terms of how much teachers had to wait for 15-year-old pupils to "quieten down" during lessons. The study found that despite widespread concerns about bad behaviour, teenagers were less likely to be noisy and disruptive than a similar international analysis in 2000. "Popular belief has it that every successive crop of students is less disciplined t
The French government wants access to a range of data stored by Google, eBay and others Google and Facebook are among a group of net heavyweights taking the French government to court this week. The legal challenge has been brought by The French Association of Internet Community Services (ASIC) and relates to government plans to keep web users' personal data for a year. The case will be heard by t
Engineers at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant have managed to lay a cable to reactor 2, the UN's nuclear watchdog reports. Restoring power should enable engineers to restart the pumps which send coolant over the reactor. Workers at Fukushima have been battling to prevent fuel in the reactors from overheating since Friday's magnitude 9.0 quake and subsequent tsunami.
New footage shows the force with which the tsunami struck Japan's coast. In the fishing port of Miyako, in Iwate prefecture, boats were overturned, while video from Kamaishi city shows cars being dragged down city streets by the water. The tsunami that followed the 8.9-magnitude earthquake wreaked havoc along a huge stretch of Japan's north-east coast, sweeping far inland and devastating a number
The excavation was ordered after former nurse Toyo Ishii spoke out Excavations are beginning at the site of a former medical school in Japan which could yield evidence of war-time experiments on prisoners. The site in western Tokyo is said to be linked to Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which used prisoners for biological warfare experiments.
Cairo's central Tahrir Square was the focal point for anti-Mubarak protesters during 18 days of demonstrations. As the protest neared its peak, the BBC's Yolande Knell took a tour of the area. Explore the protesters' camp by clicking on the links. Tanks Throughout the demonstration, protesters have sat and slept around tanks parked near the Egyptian Museum, to prevent the army from advancing into
The resignations of more than a third of the ministers were required to bring down the cabinet Lebanon's national unity government has collapsed after 11 ministers from Hezbollah and its allies resigned. Energy Minister Gibran Bassil said the decision was prompted by a dispute over the UN tribunal investigating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's murder.
The cameras used for a documentary on polar bears were designed to be as unobtrusive and resilient as possible. Polar Bear: Spy on The Ice used hi-tech "spy cams" to get as close as possible to the bears during summer in the Arctic islands of Svalbard. But while they were built to withstand temperatures as low as -40C, in the end most could not cope with the curiosity displayed by their subjects.
A man with an inherited form of blindness has been able to identify letters and a clock face using a pioneering implant, researchers say. Miikka Terho, 46, from Finland, was fitted with an experimental chip behind his retina in Germany. Success was also reported in other patients. The chip allows a patient to detect objects with their eyes, unlike a rival approach that uses an external camera. Det
French media are describing as a "miracle" the unscathed survival of an 18-month-old infant who fell from a sixth-floor apartment. The boy was left unattended by his parents when he somehow fell, then bounced off the awning of a cafe below. He had a further stroke of luck when a passing doctor saw him fall and caught him before he hit the ground, witnesses were quoted as saying. The doctor found n
The BBC's Ayub Tareen was reporting when there was a further explosion Militants in Pakistan have destroyed at least 40 tankers carrying fuel for Nato in two separate attacks, police say. The first attack hit a depot near Quetta while the second set ablaze a convoy in Nowshera, in the north-west. Attacks on tankers have soared since Pakistan shut one of the main routes into Afghanistan over the de
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