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A luxury retailer files for bankruptcy, Mattel introduces a new Barbie, and octogenarians run for re-election.

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Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

This week, the Golden Globes branched out, eggs might be cheaper and Greenland is not yet the 51st state. If you're up on ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights icon, died this week. In 1955, a 15-year-old Colvin refused to give her bus seat to a white ...

A change in the number of cruise ships visiting Guernsey and a new tourism campaign for Jersey have been in the news. What ...

For many of us, the holiday season can mean delightful overeating, followed by recriminatory New Year's resolutions. But eating enough and no more should be on the menu for all of us, according to a ...

The 2025 Uncommon Thinkers, clockwise from top left: Anindya Roy, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Lila Biologics; Kiana Ehsani, co-founder and CEO of Vercept; Chet Kittleson, co-founder and ...

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss ...

The robots won’t be replacing us, but we will increasingly be working side-by-side with artificial intelligence tools that can then learn from our human expertise. That’s one conclusion of researchers ...

The World Cup ball will be used in matches split into quarters rather than halves. / Mandel NGAN/AFP/Getty Images FIFA have confirmed that every match at the 2026 World Cup, regardless of the weather ...