Senior Riaz Helfer spent his summer poring over hundreds of PDFs. The documents were tedious at best, but he trudged on, looking for papers that would meet the criteria of the professor he was interning...

Having already cut 260 jobs in the last four years and facing increasing financial strains due to the opening of a new high school, the Columbia Board of Education voted unanimously Jan. 9 to approve...

The year was 1988. The Los Angeles Dodgers had just won the World Series, Ronald Reagan was about to exit the White House as president and a shy programmer named Robert Morris was set to unleash a digital...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Monday in Paris as the European Union considers a drastic overhaul of its powers in an attempt to keep their currency afloat. The...

Kenya is facing increasing criticism from neighboring Somalia for recent military offensives into that nation in an attempt to oust Islamic rebels. Somalia’s president, Sheik Sharif Ahmed, condemned...

The Columbia School Board is searching for a new collective bargaining agreement, which would permit teachers to negotiate terms of employment, such as giving teachers say in the number of hours they work,...

Citizens in the northeastern Turkish city of Van experienced a 7.2 magnitude earthquake Oct. 23. The earthquake destroyed more than a hundred buildings in Van and the nearby city of Ercis. The confirmed...