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Bland’s death has sparked a conversation among lawmakers in Texas and elsewhere about jail standards and how authorities deal with potentially mentally ill or suicidal inmates.

But, in part because of a concerted effort to help disadvantaged students do better on such tests, scores have risen across all subjects among students across Virginia, which stepped up the difficulty of the exams several years ago, according to the Washington Post.

One of the attackers was killed during the bombing, while two others and a police officer died in a subsequent firefight, the Istanbul governor’s office said.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has left for Lebanon on the first leg of the second round of his regional tours following a nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers.

“I’ve said this before too, they are all my children, I am pure and pious” said the controversial “godwoman”.

The typhoon, expected to land between the cities of Jinjiang and Fuqing this evening, will pose a serious threat to Fujian, the provincial meteorological station said.

We’re just a couple of days away from one of the most remarkable astronomical shows you will see in the southern Colorado sky – the Perseid meteor shower!

“Repeated incursions by Spanish patrols into the waters around Gibraltar are a clear violation of United Kingdom sovereignty”, British Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire told the press on Monday.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Afghan police academy and the U.S. base.

An Afghan store clerk waits for customers at a news stand where local papers carry headlines about the new leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, August 1, 2015.

The board is meeting tomorrow “to accept Wise’s resignation, vote on a $400,000 bonus and name an interim chancellor”.

An inmate at New York City’s Rikers Island jail is the latest patient to be diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, but health officials say the case is not believed to be related to the South Bronx outbreak that has killed 12 people and sickened 115. It’s easily...

– AFP pic, July 31, 2015.The new Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has a reputation as a relative moderate who favours peace talks with the government, but his leadership already faces challenges to its legitimacy.

I am very happy to report that it was announced today that Jeff Mizanskey has been granted parole, and will finally be released from prison to return to his family.

Last week, three Pakistani civilians were martyred and 11 injured due to a similar incident of unprovoked firing and shelling by Indian forces across the Sialkot Working Boundary. The continued firing has led to panic among villagers in border areas, but there are no reports of...