Adolescence

Tomes of books have been written about homosexuality in ancient Greece, and how widely accepted and prevalent it was in mainstream society. Historians’ opinions are partly founded on ancient vases found depicting homoerotic images between males. The reality is that this pottery cases represents a minute percentage of the thousands of ancient Greek items found in antiquity.

University entrance exams begin on Monday for more than 100,000 senior high school students in Greece.

A total of 103,366 pupils will be sitting the exams over the next few weeks to gain a place at one of the state-run universities or technical colleges (TEI).

Almost 70,000 places in tertiary education are available this year.

The results of the first phase of the university entrance examination (YGS) were announced last weekend. This year, a total of 2,084,000 people took the YGS, including around 913,000 senior year high school students.    

Bulgaria tops or is ranks high in lists of countries based on the share of adolescent drinkers and smokers, according to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) study on youth behavior.

Apart from its traditional culture, Japan is also known for its kinky sex perversions. Be it the weirdest sex TV shows or school girl teens offering their company services to middle aged men, there is a wide gamut of weirdness to choose from. one of the latest crazes that is catching on are the new life-like sex dolls.

Children's rights in Turkey have not been improving over the years, with many continuing to lack education, a new report has said amid the marking of Universal Children's Day on Nov. 20.  

Nov. 20 has been celebrated as Universal Children's Day since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, which was signed by Turkey in 1990 and enacted in 1995.

A study by Cambridge University found that babies born in the summer months are stronger and taller than their counterparts. The research, conducted on 450,000 Britons, found that pregnant mothers who absorb more health-boosting Vitamin D from sunshine in their second and third trimesters give their babies a head-start in life.

As many as 18 million students in preparatory, primary, elementary and high schools all across Turkey are set to begin the 2015-16 academic year on Sept. 28, as the three-month summer holiday comes to an end, daily Hürriyet has reported.

5,000 scholarships are being offered to students in the first and second year of senior high school. Extra tutoring will be offered to the students after they sit through tests at 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 2, 2015, for the first year of senior high school and Thursday, September 3 for the second year. Repeat tests will be offered on September 9 and 10.

The high school entrance exam results of 519 non-Muslim students, who were exempt from questions on the Islamic faith, were re-calculated upon notices issued about erroneous calculations, Turkey's Education Ministry said in a written statement late June 30.