In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

We are revisiting the pronunciations of short and long vowel sounds  /r/ and /r:/, as we have in ‘chip’ and ‘cheap’.

I would like to befuddle you with news about [U] and three diphthongs. [Y] is used to represent /u/. Sometimes it is a ...

It is many years since I clambered into a cage in Cambridge’s King’s Parade for Amnesty International and stared glumly ...

It's hard to pinpoint when synesthesia, the rare neurological condition where a stimulus that affects one sense prompts a ...

Cory Booker wrote himself into the Senate annals Tuesday, setting a new record for the chamber’s longest speech when he held the floor for more than 24 hours and surpassed the late Sen. Strom Thurmond ...

While this is the end of the road for the Eala, her Miami campaign has been nothing short of spectacular. “I mean she’s really good. A really good tennis player… She proved that tonight ...

Alex Eala's dream run in the Miami Open came to a close on Friday as the Filipina tennis ace fell short against world no. 4 Jessica Pegula, 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-3 in the semifinals. Eala had an early 5-2 ...

Celebritydom is abuzz from a reported aggressive confrontation between daytime talk show host Sherri Shepherd and actress Nia Long. Both Shepherd, 57, and Long, 54, attended Denzel Washington’s ...

The third-seeded Badgers men’s basketball team put forth a furious comeback during the final 2½ minutes but came up just short, falling, 91-89, to No. 6 seed BYU in an NCAA tournament second ...

(Bloomberg) -- Turkey’s capital markets regulator banned short-selling across all stocks and relaxed share buyback rules in a bid to prevent further equity losses after the country’s benchmark ...