Numbers define reality. The count of protons, neutrons and electrons in an atom determines what element it is; the tally of bricks in a bridge decides if it spans a creek or the Nile; the sum of your ...

Starting when I was about six years old, I was molested by someone I thought I could trust. I didn’t tell a soul until I was well into my 20s. I stayed quiet for lots of reasons — mostly shame — but ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present the Union Budget 2026 on February 1. Ahead of the presentation, attention once again turns to the tradition of the Budget speech, which reflects ...

Wilson’s Hospital has become synonymous with the ongoing protest by its history teacher. But, says its new principal, there is far more to the Westmeath school than that Inside Ireland's most famous ...

Editor: If we judge 2025 by just the new words that have entered the lexicon in the past year we’re certainly in a Brave New World. One that is certainly bizarre and inscrutably opague. According to ...

Many people loathe “big words”. Why say “subsequent” when “next” does the trick, right? Well, it could be argued that those “big words” are actually intrinsic to how we, as people, communicate. They ...

Earlier this year, Dictionary.com chose “6-7” as its word of the year and yet was unable to really define it, chalking it up as “classic brainrot slang.” This was, in the opinion of some people, a ...