Bank holidays came about thanks to - well, banks! Places like the Bank of England and other public offices would take a large number of holidays a year where they'd shut up shop to celebrate things ...

Last week, I began teaching a new undergraduate course on “Dissent and Democracy in the World.” I started developing the course over a year ago, convinced that the subject is not only essential to ...

Every year in (most of) the U.S., we move our clocks ahead one hour in the spring and one hour back in the fall. That time in between is called daylight saving time. (That’s right, drop that “s.”) As ...

Have we ever truly asked ourselves: What is the purpose of life? We arrive in this world without our choosing to do so and one day, we will depart, which is also not in our hands. Between birth and ...

Fans of digital ID cards argue that they will speed the UK into a digital future by giving everyone a way to prove who they are. What's confusing about this argument is that we can do that already. We ...

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Have an eye for designer finds? Then you’ll want to block out your diary for the VIP sample sale at the lush Anantara Downtown Dubai, running from Friday September 26 to Sunday September 28. Well, ...

Will she, won’t she cut the amount of tax-free cash that we can take from our pension pots?’ It’s a question that is being anxiously asked by hundreds of thousands up and down the country as we hurtle ...

The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN. The withdrawal comes after CNN’s KFile ...

A lawsuit claimed Blige's decades-old song borrowed from a 1973 song with a rich hip-hop history. But a federal judge now says nobody can even hear it. By Bill Donahue A federal judge has dismissed a ...