No Child Left Behind tied some US school funding to test scores
Congress passed No Child Left Behind by 384 to 45 in the House and 91 to 8 in the Senate. Schools that kept missing targets faced closure.
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Every UN member but the US signed the children's rights treaty
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out what every under-18 is owed, from a name to contact with both parents. Scotland made it law in 2024.
At Grasshopper Pueblo, teeth showed who came from elsewhere
Strontium locked into tooth enamel records the rocks under a person's childhood home. Archaeologists compare it with bone to track ancient migrants.
News sites test two headlines and keep the one you click
News sites show different headlines to small slices of readers and keep the winner. One word, epic, doubled clicks for The Dodo. Here is how it works.
Women are taking up the blowpipe in Murano's glass furnaces
Murano's glassblowers gather molten glass on a blowpipe, turn it and blow it by hand. For 700 years the furnaces were male. A few women are changing that.
Katie Taylor retires a three-time champion at Croke Park
Katie Taylor beat Flora Pili on points in Dublin to end her career as a three-time undisputed world champion, in front of 80,000 fans at Croke Park.
Every Time I Die guitarist and wrestler Andy Williams dies at 48
Andy Williams, founding guitarist of Every Time I Die and the AEW wrestler known as The Butcher, collapsed after a match in Pennsylvania and died aged 48.
The Gentlemen season 3: what's confirmed so far
Netflix renewed The Gentlemen for an eight-episode third season before season two aired. Here is what is confirmed about timing, cast and the Markle rumour.
Artemis II flew people farther from Earth than ever before
Four astronauts looped around the Moon in April 2026 on Artemis II, the first crewed flight past low Earth orbit since Apollo ended in 1972.
Rupert Lowe won't say if King Charles is a 'white Briton'
Pressed on BBC radio, Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe would not say whether King Charles is a white Briton, as his party wins a Tory convert.
A US habeas petition makes the government justify detention
A US habeas corpus petition makes the government show a judge its legal basis for holding someone. Immigration lawyers have filed more than 52,000.
A barrel vault carries a roof, and shoves its walls outwards
Builders used it from about 4000 BC. A barrel vault keeps its brick or stone in compression, but its base shoves sideways, so abutments must resist.
Australia's parliament passed compulsory voting in under an hour
A senator from Tasmania proposed the 1924 bill. Both houses passed it unanimously in under an hour, and turnout has stayed above 90% since.
Greenland became Danish in three steps, from 1721 to 1953
A 1721 mission, an 1814 treaty and a 1953 change in status tied Greenland to Denmark. Home rule in 1979 and self-government in 2009 gave it more control.
Harry Harlow's monkeys preferred a cloth mother to a wire one
Harry Harlow's infant rhesus monkeys fed from a wire mother, then went straight back to cling to a cloth one. Comfort, not milk, drew them.
China's Peking opera roles: one character type for a lifetime
Peking opera casts every story from fixed role types, such as the sheng and the hualian. Performers train for years, then keep one type for life.
Why Jung broke with Freud, and the school he built after
Carl Jung rejected Freud's view that all motivation is sexual and the unconscious purely personal. After the split he founded analytical psychology.