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Pakistani human-rights and education advocate Malala Yousafzai has been accepted to study at the University of Oxford in the U.K.

The 20-year-old tweeted Thursday: "So excited to go to Oxford!! Well done to all A-level students - the hardest year. Best wishes for life ahead!" along with a screen shot of her acceptance into the prestigious university.

Experts are urging authorities to take active measures to combat anti-Semitism in Greece after a recent study confirmed the high levels of hatred toward Jews in the country - believed to be the highest in Europe.

While some of the world’s leaders are obsessed with keeping people out of their country, an unspoken entity is slowly but certainly taking our jobs: robots. It’s been long discussed that robots and computers will start taking our jobs “in the near future” — well that near future is upon us and we’re not really prepared to deal with it.

Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom are among the most famous and renowned universities in the world, but as the infographic below shows, the UK does not only offer these two famous institutions. Of the twenty best universities in Europe, as ranked by The Times, the UK is home to a mighty 40 percent.

Marine Le Pen has overtaken French presidential favourite François Fillon to become the frontrunner in the latest first round election poll.

The Front National leader is now polling at 26.5 per cent, a lead of 1.5 per cent over former Conservative Prime Minister Fillon.

Turkey's new ambassador to Israel, Mustafa Kemal Ökem, has officially been appointed to mission after his name appeared in the government's Official Gazette on Dec. 7. 

The foreign ministry had officially announced Ökem's appointment to the post on Nov. 30. 

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

John Sibthorp was only 24 when he was appointed Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford at the end of the 18th century. An ambitious scientist who wished to leave his mark in the field of botany, Sibthorp decided to travel to Greece in order to study Europe's "last unexplored plants."

A new William Shakespeare First Folio, part of the original collection of 36 plays published in 1623, has been discovered on a Scottish island, the University of Oxford said April 7.

Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, authenticated the First Folio as genuine, making it one of the most valuable books in the world.

"I am leaving Bulgaria in two weeks as I just got a new job in the UK. But what will happen to me if Britain decide to leave the EU?," a young Bulgarian asked the British ambassador to Bulgaria, Emma Hopkins, at a debate on the future of the UK in the EU in Sofia on Monday.