| Germany recruits 8,500 teachers for child refugees Posted: 27 Dec 2015 12:18 PM PST  Germany has recruited 8,500 people to teach child refugees German, as the country expects the number of new arrivals to soar past the million mark in 2015, Die Welt daily reported Sunday. With some 196,000 children fleeing war and poverty entering the German school system this year, 8,264 "special classes" have been created to help the new arrivals catch up with their peers, Die Welt said, citing a survey carried out in 16 German federal states. According to Germany's education authority, 325,000 school-age children reached the EU country in 2015, amid Europe's worst migration crisis since World War II.
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| The bail bond queen and a controversial US industry Posted: 26 Dec 2015 08:55 PM PST  Michelle Esquenazi tosses her mane of flaming red curls, kicks her feet clad in five-inch stilettos onto her desk and hollers for her assistant. Meet the Bail Bond Queen, a New York mother of four with a "Master's degree from the streets of Brooklyn" who worked her way up from being a paralegal student on welfare to company CEO. "I always say I'm a bitch, but I'm not a stupid bitch," Esquenazi tells AFP in Hempstead, a town on Long Island about an hour's train ride east of New York.
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