A school district in northwest Oregon has put its superintendent and high school principal on leave, accepted the school board chair's resignation and temporarily canceled classes in response to an uproar over the arrests of a teacher and former teacher on sexual abuse charges. The St. Helens Police Department said in a statement that officers this week arrested one current and one retired St. Helens High School teacher on allegations of sexually abusing students.

From an AI-powered sign language translator and a RAM pump designed to supply water to high altitudes to an eco-friendly precision agriculture system, the working model competition for high school students at the ongoing State School Science Festival in Alappuzha on Saturday highlighted innovative technologies aimed at benefitting humanity.