An American student accused of threatening to blow up a professor, placing a hand grenade on the desk and forcing a class to be cancelled has now been indicted on charges of child pornography possession. Harvie David Hensley, who graduated from McLennan Community College in 2003 with an associate’s degree in criminal justice, has been jailed with $20,000 bail since November, when he was arrested on terroristic threat charges.

This is the kind of science experiment that everyone can get excited about. Belgian students have set a new world record for the most Mentos fountains by firing 1,360 simultaneous Coke geysers. After they each dropped a tube of the mints into a bottle of Diet Coke, Ladeuzeplein square in Leuven was washed with soda, with some carbonated streams shooting up to 29 feet high.

A Harvard professor has explained the key to long-standing happiness in a relationship: get married and don’t have kids. Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard University, claims that studies across America and Europe show that happiness spikes during the early years of marriage, dropping dramatically after having children with couples only recovering former joy when their offspring have left home.

A Chinese driver got the shock of his life when the car he was driving was blown onto the roof of a building during a fierce storm. His car landed on a house roof during heavy storms in Lu Feng. The driver said he had just turned a corner when it suddenly felt as if his car was flying through the air.

A Turkish television show was called off after a group of students who were barred from the audience held a protest. The programme called ‘Siyaset Meydani’ (The Political Arena) was due to hold a debate on fertility and birth rates whilst being filmed at Harran University. The Turkish military stepped up security measures around the university campus before the filming and students were not allowed in as spectators. A group of 300 students began a demonstration against this decision, chanting slogans and calling for the host of the show, Ali Kirca, to leave the campus.

University of Ottawa students have decided to ban Canadian armed forces advertising in their campus newspaper. In a vote on March 19 students voted to not allow Canadian Forces adverts in their paper the Fulcrum. The ballot pitted anti-war activists against members of the Fulcrum’s own staff, who supported running the full-page advertisements.

The validity of support research on diseases linked to smoking at several Massachusetts universities has been brought into question following reports that a major cigarette company has provided millions of dollars in grants to scientists. Philip Morris USA, the nation’s largest cigarette manufacturer said it doesn’t interfere with the studies and researchers are required to disclose the source of the funding. But critics insist that any link to the tobacco industry compromises the work.

A US university student is going to have no problem getting a parking space for his new vehicle, because he has built himself a half-size Panzer tank. University of Kettering mechanical engineering student Will Foster built the miniature tank which is about the size of a small car. It has treads, travels at 25mph on a diesel engine, and even has a turret that shoots Red Bull cans. Foster who began building the tank two years ago said, "I took it home, driving it around in this white picket fence neighbourhood and one of the neighbours called the cops on us."

A science project malfunction caused train passengers in New York to believe they were in the middle of a terrorist attack last month. Gregory Kats, 29, has apologised for the scare which was caused when his science project, a model of an elevator’s inner workings, short-circuited and started smoking in his backpack. Kats, a computer engineering student at the New York City College of Technology, yelled out, 'This is not a bomb! This is not terror!' as scared commuters rushed for the exits. The box he was holding had a small battery, wires and a motor.

The editor of a student paper has filed a police report claiming that 4,500 copies have disappeared. The issue of North Dakota State University newspaper The Spectrum contained a special section that listed the salaries of all university employees. It also included a news story on a campus skit in which a white student with a blackened face portrayed presidential candidate Barack Obama receiving a lap dance. The skit received national attention and prompted University President Joe Chapman to put out a statement condemning it. Spectrum Editor Stephen Baird said he does not know if the newspapers were stolen after they were distributed but that he finds it hard to believe readers would have taken them all in one night. He said issues from even the typically low-circulation areas vanished.

An Australian student has been jailed for threatening to kill two fellow students whilst briefly holding them hostage after a heated argument with a lecturer escalated out of control. The local district court heard that Bradley John Hayden, 34, barricaded himself and two women in a room at the University of Queensland on September 10 2007.

A German woman is suing doctors after she checked in to have wrinkles removed - and woke up with a new pair of breasts. Ingrid Bruelling, 33, had the operation in the German city of Kassel. She wanted to give herself firmer skin and remove the wrinkles after losing 16 stone on a crash diet. But when she woke up after the operation she found doctors had put two silicone implants into her breasts, increasing their size from a C cup to a D. Doctors said the woman should not complain as the best way to tighten the skin and remove the wrinkles was to make her breasts bigger.

Several white students in South Africa are facing criminal charges after allegedly forcing black campus employees to eat food that had been urinated on. A video has surfaced which appears to show five elderly University of Free State employees being made to drink beer and perform athletic tasks. It also shows them being forced to eat food which appears to have been urinated on. The university has strongly condemned the actions of the students shown in the video.

A new student group in the USA is calling for the ban on firearms on the country’s campuses to be lifted. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) argue that concealed-carry permit holders should be able to take weapons into university to defend themselves and their classmates against a deranged killer.

Student-run sex magazine, Boink, has taken the next big step into the publishing world and released a book. The Boston University based sex-mag recently published Boink: College Sex by the People Having It which contains nonfiction articles and studies as well as fiction and boasts untouched, nude pictures of real university students. Boink is the newest and most explicit publication in the genre of university sex magazines. The website states, "The words and images represented in Boink are necessarily explicit to accurately reflect the sexual openness of an evolving generation. While we understand this may offend some, we firmly believe that sex is a natural and healthy part of college life."

A supposedly satirical editorial column on Asian students published in a student newspaper has sparked controversy. The piece written by staff editor Max Karson at the University of Colorado paper Campus Press which was entitled ‘If it’s war the Asians want... It’s what they’ll get’ has been condemned across the campus. Karson wrote that he had noticed 'some tension between the white students and the Asian students' at the university in the past year. 'They hate us all,' wrote Karson commenting on the Asian community at the university.

A student who was arrested in November pleaded guilty to his part in an internet scheme that crashed the University of Pennsylvania’s computer system. Ryan Goldstein pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting another person to gain unauthorised access to a protected computer, the US Attorney’s Office announced. US District Judge Michael M. Baylson set sentencing for June 3. Prosecutors estimated that Goldstein could get six months in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.

The Italian supreme court has outlawed men from touching their genitals in public. Crotch-grabbing is an ancient superstitious habit in Italy that is believed to ward off the evil eye. It’s traditional for men to do it if passed by a hearse or when discussing serious illness or disasters.

Six students have been killed after a lone gunman opened fire at a university in Chicago. Another 15 people were injured in the attack before the gunman turned the gun on himself. Police said there was no apparent motive.

The death-penalty imposed on an Afghan student has caused worldwide outrage and protest. Student journalist Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, 23, was sentenced to death after being accused of downloading an internet report on women’s rights.

Public opinion on the streets of the Afghan capital on the fate of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh is divided. Members of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan marched during a demonstration in Kabul on January 31 to protest against his death sentence.

A Chinese student stuck in the country’s worst winter weather for 50 years tried to ski 150 miles home. The unnamed student, from Yangtse University, was stopped by police concerned for his safety as he rented a pair of skis and set off.

92-year-old golfer Leo Fiyalko has hit a hole in one even though he is blind. Fiyalko was playing a 110-yard, par-3 hole in Clearwater, Florida when he hit the amazing shot.

An Iranian student studying in Canada has been sentenced to two months in jail for kissing a woman on her breast while the two were sharing an elevator. Farhood Azarsina, 25, pleaded guilty to sexual assault. The PhD student, studying engineering at Memorial University, Newfoundland admitted to kissing the top of the woman’s breast in the elevator on September 27 last year.

The University of South Carolina’s student newspaper, The Daily Gamecock turned 100 years old in January. The Daily Gamecock publishes a free newspaper five days a week and nine times during the summer, printing about 12,000 copies daily. The university has more than 27,000 students at its main Columbia campus.

Halle Berry’s unborn baby has already been offered a place at a top American university, before he or she has even been born.

A university in Paris was shut down last month, due to violence between students protesting decisions made by President Nicolas Sarkozy and students trying to get to class.

A Jewish student who complained about swastikas appearing on her dormitory door admitted to drawing some of them herself.

Researchers at the Universiy of Arizona are developing a tool to scour the internet for the most influential jihadists.

Brigham Nordstrom, is being hailed a medical marvel after tests showed he could have five kidneys.

A man was beaten by his fiancée and in-laws in India for being bald and wearing a wig.