Nigerians have started scrambling to buy a stake in Aliko Dangote's giant oil refinery, with some seeing the country's biggest-ever public share offering as a rare chance to participate in one of Africa's most ambitious industrial projects.
READ MOREAt least 82 people have been killed in a gold mine collapse in Sudan’s West Kordofan state, with dozens more injured and others feared trapped beneath the rubble.
Casualties have been reported after an Amazon Boeing 767 jet smashed into a road just outside Miami International Airport.
About a quarter of a million mothers with young children have left their jobs due to childcare pressures, research by an equal rights charity suggests.
Teachers in Portland, Oregon, walked off the job on Wednesday for the first day of a strike that shuttered schools for some 45,000 students in Oregon's largest city.
Colleges in England say they are having to expand class sizes and hire exam halls to cope with a rising number of pupils taking compulsory GCSE resits.
Children in care in Surrey and Sussex are being housed in illegal homes amid a severe shortage of placements, a BBC investigation has found.
A record number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds have applied for the most selective UK university degrees, says the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas).
Accommodation costs take up almost all the average maintenance loan received by university students in England, says student housing charity Unipol.
Parents of children with special educational needs have held a protest in Lincoln.
School attendances in Northern Ireland over the past two years have been the worst on record.
Hopeless and frozen - that's how some young asylum seekers in Northern Ireland feel with limited access to education and specialised support.
Parents of children starting secondary school in England and Wales in September 2024 need to apply for their place within the coming weeks.
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