Afghanistan’s Taliban are appealing to the United Nations, the European Union and the Red Cross to stop President Hamid Karzai from carrying out executions of people on death row, many of them their fighters.

They don’t think the Afghan judicial system is fair, according to a statement by the hardline Islamist group. The UN and the EU have asked Karzai to halt the executions. 

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LAFAYETTE, N.Y. -- It sounds like a student's dream school -- no teachers, no homework, no tests, no grades.

Educators, too, say Lafayette's Big Picture High School is a vision realized. For different reasons, though.

"This is how I ideally envisioned education," said Leonardo Oppedisano, a former science teacher who is now adviser to the school's first ninth grade class.

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