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School administrators in Sierra Leone say they are worried by high dropout rates and poor exam results. They say having few graduates is not good for the future of a country still struggling to recover from civil war. But in the town of Makeni, desp

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Tony Abbott has put spending cuts to health and education firmly on the government's agenda. The prime minister says the government will keep its pre-election commitment to maintain health and school spending his term, but he says reducing the rate o

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Malaysia has provided French satellites images to Australian authorities, who is searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The images show possible debris in the southern Indian Ocean. Now so far nothing significant has been found. Planes f

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