WASHINGTON - PRESIDENT Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite America's sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better teachers at the blackboards.
Mr Obama said he would send Congress his proposed overhaul of the 2001 education law that focused on accountability in the classroom but has fallen short of its original goals.
LONDON - PANICKED residents of a southern England village barricaded themselves inside their homes and prepared for disaster after mistaking a training exercise for a nuclear accident.
BAGHDAD - IRAQI Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki comfortably emerged on Saturday as the top vote getter in Baghdad, which has the most seats in parliament of any constituency, early results showed.
PARIS - THE search for the wreckage and black boxes of an Air France aircraft which crashed into the Atlantic last year killing all 228 people on board will resume on 25 March, newspaper Le Figaro said.
