A study by researchers from King's College in London of 800 Britons ages 13 and 14 showed that teenagers of a generation ago were brighter than today's youth. The survey was based on measurement of understanding of abstract scientific concepts such as volume, density, quantity and weight, with the results placed side-by-side with a similar study made in 1976.

Ezra Wallace, a 29-year-old man from Denver, says he was just "horse playing" around when he tied with tape a teenage girl seated beside him in a Southwest Airlines San Diego-to-Denver flight last August 1. Wallace admitted that he was drunk when he bound the teenager. He added that he "never harmed anybody or had any bad intentions. " He was also attempting to do the same with the teenager's younger sister, according to witnesses.

Eight members of a satanic gang have been arrested in Russia for stabbing to death four teenagers, then roasting and eating parts of the victims' body in a demonic ritual. Russian police said gang leader as Nikolai Ogolobyak led the murders of Anya Gorokhova, Olga Pukhova, Varya Kuzmina and Andrei Sorokin, who were aged between 16 and 17, inside a rural cottage near his apartment in the Yaroslavl region of Russia, 300 miles northeast of Moscow.

Two Spanish children have been sent to a mental health institution by their parents to get treatment for addiction to their mobile phones. The children had allegedly ceased to undertake normal activities without first having their phones. The children, aged 12 and 13, were admitted to Child and Youth Mental Health Centre in Lleida, in northeastern Spain near Barcelona, three months ago. Their concerned parents brought them in after they spend an average of six hours a day on their phones, talking, texting or playing games.

Two teenagers were suspended from school for two days, for wearing homemade shirts with condom packs attached to them. The shirts also had the words "Safe Sex or No Sex" brandished at the front. The students, 14-year old Cheyenne Bird, and 15-year old Victoria Shoemaker, of the Lewis and Clark Junior High School, went to school Monday wearing the shirts, which they said were meant to protest the school's pro-abstinence curriculum.