When the UK was placed into its first COVID lockdown in March 2020, many of us may have been tempted to reach for a drink. The...
Lexicographer and TV personality Susie Dent recently embarked on a curious, self-appointed mission. She is determined to bring the word “respair”, last used around 1525, back...
In 2019 Boris Johnson demolished the so-called “red wall” of northern England as scores of Midlands and northern towns voted Conservative for the first time in...
Two-thirds of countries have now committed to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions at some point this century. During 2021, the share of large companies with...
Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in...
Microsoft was positioning itself as one of the pioneers of the metaverse even before its US$75 billion deal to buy online gaming giant Activision Blizzard. In...
Demands for the super wealthy to pay more taxes are not new. But they don’t usually come from billionaires or millionaires. Yet on January 19 2022,...
MANILA – The decline in vaccine hesitancy is a reflection of the success of information dissemination and government efforts to make coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines accessible...
OTTAWA — Canada’s chief public health officer says there are positive signs the Omicron wave is peaking in this country, but no one should start choreographing...
OTTAWA — Strengthening Haiti’s beleaguered police emerged a key theme Friday as Canada, the United States and several other allies held talks to help the embattled,...
