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After ruling the country for three years as Prime Minister, Vucic will be sworn in as Serbia's new President in parliament on Wednesday.

His victory in the April 2 elections prompted some foreign politicians to congratulate him, predicting that he would contribute to regional stability and to the EU accession process.

Tiny, tubular structures uncovered in ancient Canadian rocks could be remnants of some of the earliest life on Earth, scientists say.

More men inevitably means more testosterone-fuelled violence, right? Wrong, according to a comprehensive analysis exploring how a surplus of men or women affect crime rates across the US.

English-speaking universities continue to dominate the world, according to a new ranking from the Times Higher Education (THE) supplement released on Thursday.

Researchers claim that they have discover the ‘Achilles’ heel’ of cancer which could lead to treatments for cases where disease has spread throughout the body.

They found that all cancer cells carry a ‘flag’, which can be spotted by the immune system despite their mutation.

'Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action' by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale, & Taha Yasseri (Princeton University Press, $30, 304 pages)

The 2015 ranking of global universities has just been published by QS World University Rankings.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the one which has taken again the top place for the fourth year running, whereas Harvard climbed two places and got the second place.

New York Times attempts to map the strategy behind the Islamic State’s (IS) destruction of ancient historical sites in a piece posted by Sarah Almukhtar. On the one hand, the jihadists want to instill fear into the hearts of its enemies, on the other hand they want to impress would-be recruits to its ranks. They do it all for the glory and the money the article argues.

Humans have always been fascinated by the idea of being able to see into the future and predict what will happen. Some researchers say it is possible to predict where your next travel destination will be, based on data taken from photographs on your mobile phone, with a high degree of accuracy!

Turkey?s answer to Pietro Boselli, the hottest math teacher in the world, teaches Islam to school children.

Meet Serhat Karanfil, a religious culture and ethics class teacher from the western Turkish province of Bursa. 

Karanfil has recently been put in the public spotlight in Turkey after many of his students posted his photos on social media.