News

This collie knows more words in the English language than any other non-human animal.
Habeas corpus is a critical safeguard of liberty. In the words of Chief Justice John Marshall in the seminal 1803 case, Marbury v. Madison, the “very essence” of civil liberty is “the right to claim ...
In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification ...
Malaysia’s colourful English stepped into the global linguistic spotlight after words like “alamak” and “tapau” found a home in the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary (OED). But how exactly do ...
The president’s order scraps “multi-thousand-word regulations defining the word ... for this common piece of hardware, the Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘showerhead’ in one short ...
Ros, who died in 1939, abused (some would say, tortured) the English language in three novels ... she would "be talked about at the end of a thousand years." She's well on her way.
These ships are staffed by teams of squid-like aliens responsible for teaching humankind their language in order to ...
Now in its eleventh year, the BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University challenges young people in the UK aged between 14-18 years to submit stories of up to 1,000 words. Submissions for the ...
It involves planning out & writing a novella (8x 1000 word chapters) from a minimal prompt ... The situation worsened with non-English inputs; when the identical riddle was asked in Spanish, not only ...
A man fined £1,000 for possession of extreme pornography, a teenage drug dealer, a burglar who broke into Chinese restaurant, ...
Stay connected! Every business day, WBJ Daily Report will be delivered to your inbox by noon. It provides a daily update of the area’s most important business news. Worcester Business Journal ...