Imagine taking out a 12-inch ruler and finding that the number 12 is on the left side and the number 1 is on the right side.

A goal has been scored in each of the 26 shirt numbers used at the World Cup. No goalkeeper has ever netted in the competition, but midfielder Osvaldo Ardiles was on target in the No1 jersey for ...

Historian Jean Arzoumanov’s discovery of an 18th-century Jain text in Persian reveals a forgotten era where Hindu scholars ...

For more than sixty years, Sri Lanka has suffered repeated man-made disasters. Every few years, something man-made (manufactured) happens that pushes the country back by almost a decade. These ...

What if we told you writing a 9-number sequence on your stomach for the next week would likely lead to you experiencing a visible drop in your belly fat? Or a 6-number sequence routinely written on ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

PESHAWAR: In an effort to promote Urdu literature among youth, a vibrant poetry recitation session was held in Hafizullah Auditorium of Khyber Medical University here the other day. The session titled ...

FASANA-I-AJAAIB, one of the Urdu’s most acclaimed specimens of ornate and embellished prose, was written in 1240 Hijri/1825 AD, though it was not until some 19 years later when it appeared in print.

An intrinsic part of our lives as scientists, academic writing strongly affects our careers. Even great researchers are much more likely to be successful if they are also proficient writers.

If you've got the time, we've got the riddle. And it's time for a riddle about time: How many numbers are on a clock? It begins with the simplest of questions that, nevertheless, has no simple answer.

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...