In 2015, 193 countries committed to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, a shared vision of humanity that provides the missing piece of the globalisation puzzle. The extent to which that vision becomes a reality will in no small way depend on what is happening in today’s classrooms. Indeed, it is educators who hold the key to ensuring that the SDGs become a real social contract with citizens.

The world’s growing complexity and diversity present both opportunity and challenge. On the one hand, globalization can bring important new perspectives, innovation, and improved living standards. But on the other, it can also contribute to economic inequality, social division, and conflict.

Over the last generation, it has become clear that something has gone awry in how the United States prepares its young people for life. In spite of millions of young people pursuing university education, fewer than one in three young Americans successfully attain a bachelor’s degree, while millions of good middle-skills jobs go begging.

Digitisation is expected to profoundly change the way we learn and work – at a faster pace than previous major drivers of transformation. Many children entering school today are likely to end up working in jobs that do not yet exist.

On Mother's Day 2020, we take a look at actresses like Malaika, Kareena, Shilpa who are among the most gorgeous mothers of the film fraternity.

Scaler Academy is an ed-tech platform that has been helping working professionals and college graduates navigate the changing software technology landscape by training them on skills that are sought after by top tech employers

After the success of song 'Pyar Karona', Salman Khan has shared the teaser of his new song 'Tera Bina' with Jacqueline Fernandez.

Chicago is at a tipping point: despite economic strengths, it faces considerable challenges to compete in the “Premier League” of world-class cities, warns the OECD’s review of the Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Region.

This report compares urbanisation trends on the basis of a common methodology which helps cross-country comparison of the socio-economic and environmental performance of metropolitan areas in 28 OECD countries.

Vibrant and dynamic urban centers are among the main drivers of national growth and employment, but OECD’s new report Promoting Growth in All Regions highlights that even less wealthy regions have the potential to bolster stronger, greener, and more inclusive economies.

The metropolitan region of Aix-Marseille in the south of France needs to tackle its fragmentated governance if it is to return to more inclusive and sustainable economic growth, according to a new OECD report.

A major flooding of the Seine River similar to the flood disaster of 1910 could affect up to 5 million residents in the greater Paris area and cause up to 30 billion euros worth of damage, according to a new OECD report.

Health care use varies widely across countries but can also vary as much or more within countries. Governments should do more to improve their health systems to prevent unnecessary interventions and ensure that everyone has the same access to quality healthcare, wherever they live, according to a new OECD report.

Italy has significantly improved the quality of health care in recent decades but needs to tackle the wide disparities that remain between regions, according to a new OECD report.

This report explores this question on the basis of detailed mobility data including origin, destination and timing of all trips for a mid-sized European city. ITF developed a model to test various alternative transport system configurations that would provide the same level of mobility (locations and timing) as today.

In 2011, TIME Magazine named collaborative consumption (or the sharing economy as it is often called) as one of the top 10 ideas that will change the world. Four years on, this prediction seems to be holding true. The number of companies operating in the sharing economy is rising rapidly in the transport sector alone.

This high-level meeting will be organised for the first time in the Eurasia region, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This event creates an opportunity to further strengthen relations between the countries of the region and the OECD and serves as a platform for a discussion on a broad spectrum of thematic issues relevant to further improving the region’s competitiveness.

The OECD LEED Trento Centre is working with Italy and the Autonomous Province of Trento to strengthen capacities to develop and implement integrated strategies targeted at improving the quality of life and well-being of people and reversing demographic trends in ‘inner areas’ (sparsely populated areas and stranded communities isolated from large and medium-sized urban centres).

The OECD Trento Centre is undertaking a review (2017/2018) to identify the needs and priorities for policy improvement and to foster the exchange of experiences, the capitalisation of acquired know-how and the generation of new and fresh thinking in the Adriatic-Ionian macro-region.

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This report of a survey collates member countries’ approaches to manage and mitigate the risk of pesticide use near residential areas.

An addendum to the OECD Guiding Principles on Chemical Accident Prevention, Preparedness and Response to address Natural Hazards Triggering Technological Accidents (Natech) Risk Management has just been published. The addendum consists of a number of amendments to the Guiding Principles and the addition of a new Chapter to provide more detailed guidance on Natech prevention, preparedness and response.

The Product Release and Exposure Data Warehouse is a Microsoft® Access 2016 database is designed to house existing data on releases of chemicals from, and exposures to, commercial and consumer end products. A number of forms provide a simple approach to data entry and access to the existing data.

All the world’s languages are anglicising and pidginising, but particularly French

Donald Trump’s campaign was about sociology not ideology

Deliberately infecting volunteers could accelerate research but raises ethical questions

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2. Children infected with COVID-19 are developing new symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease  WION
3. COVID-19: Cases surpass 4 million worldwide, New York children die from related inflammation  CGTN
4. New York looking further into emerging COVID-19 issue affecting children  The Daily News Online
5. 'Every parent's nightmare': New York is investigating the death of a 5-year-old child from an illness linked t  Business Insider India
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1. Aussies said ‘stay away from him’: Suresh Raina on Indian cricketer whom Australia feared the most  Hindustan Times
2. Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan want BCCI to allow Indian players to participate in foreign T20 leagues  Times of India
3. BCCI should allow non-contracted players to play in foreign leagues: Raina - Cricbuzz  Cricbuzz
4. Come and tell me you have 1 year: Irfan Pathan ready to come out of retirement if ‘communication’ is...  Hindustan Times
5. 'MSK Prasad didn't speak to me', Suresh Raina hits back at former chief selector's claims  Times Now
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The Italian public took to bicycles around the Piazza Venezia and the Via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome while people of all ages walked and cycled to Ruffini Park in Turin during Phase Two of lockdown.

Neil Simpson takes an in-depth look at how to ensure you are ready to travel for when the world reopens. Advice includes checking passports and insurance policies are still valid.

Single parent Beverley Cohen, 55, from Brighton, pictured with her seriously disabled daughter Liora, left, has felt abandoned by the care system since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Ms Nandy has raised the case with the UK ambassador to the US, Karen Pierce. Harry, 19, was killed when his motorbike crashed into a car outside a US military base in Northamptonshire.

A advertising company from Bogotá, Colombia, created hospital beds with metal railings that designers say can double as a casket if a patient dies.

The landmark judgment - which risks throwing the Government's deportation policy into chaos - has already delayed the case of gang rapist Yaqub Ahmed, who was supposed to be deported.

Crooks can buy usernames, passwords and other data to break into private online meetings and steal sensitive information from banks, financial firms and even universities.

Daily coronavirus tests fell the below 100,000 target for a seventh day in a row. Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged Boris Johnson to 'give me a break' in a furious bust-up over the coronavirus crisis.

The victims of the Rochdale grooming gang have admitted they feel 'violated' after the men who haunted them have now returned to the town, despite losing their appeal against deportation.

A clever Australian shopper has demonstrated how to neatly fold reusable shopping bags to save pantry or drawer space in the kitchen. The bag is folded in certain ways to avoid unravelling.

Leaders of unions such as Unite, Unison and the General have written an open letter to Boris Johnson demanding the government puts policies in place to make workplaces safe.

The actor, 65, posted the cute snap on Saturday, captioned, 'My son Ben is taking my place! His first A380 @qantas flight.' The Grease star was referring to his role as an ambassador of the airline.

QF171 left Melbourne at just after 9am on Saturday morning but a mechanical issue meant its intended landing in Wellington at 2.35pm was aborted and the plane diverted to an air base with no customs.

The Veronicas' Lisa and Jessica Origliasso have been announced as presenters at this year's ARIA Awards on Wednesday November 27.

MailOnline will board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner at London Heathrow tomorrow that will then fly non-stop to Sydney - a distance of 11,060 miles that'll take 19-and-a-half hours to cover.

The ASX fell by 1.7 per cent, wiping $36billion off the market amid fears the outbreak will reduce the number of tourists visiting from China.

Around 600 Australians are trapped in the Wuhan province which had the outbreak of the deadly disease that has killed 170 Chinese people and infected more than 7,000.

A flight aimed at evacuating the Australian citizens and permanent residents from Wuhan to and old mining facility in Darwin has left China after it was delayed.

Virgin Australia shares are worth less than 10 cents. Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's has warned the airline's debt problems were likely to worsen in light of the coronavirus.

Almost 90,000 Australians lost their jobs on Monday as the government moved to shut all pubs, bars, cinemas and gyms in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19.

South Australia Health on Tuesday said they are investigating a COVID-19 cluster at Adelaide Airport.

5,500 workers at Dnata, which supplies frozen meals to businesses like Qantas received the news they were no longer eligible for the $1500/fortnight payment on Monday.