The foundation even paid for Israel's Declaration of Independence to appear in full-page ads in leading U.S. newspapers on Independence Day in each of the last two years. “It's a document that speaks for itself and shows the shared values of Israel and …

There's this pandemic of girls comparing themselves to each other and having low self-esteem," which can lead to issues like depression, eating disorders and substance abuse, Case said. The doctor-by-day, author-by-night said she's spent the past 15 …

The 39-year-old chef has blasted the standard of cookery lessons being offered to schoolchildren and accused some schools of doing the bare minimum. He wants inspectors to check what is being taught.

We read a lot of weirdness every day and it’s hard not to become jaded even to the most Fortean of mysteries we’ve heard variations of over and over again, but this is something entirely new and to put it simply, it blows our minds. Researchers have absolutely no idea what caused the fairy circles […]

It’s a bright and sunny Saturday, what the heck are you doing inside? You could be outdoors, reading these great links on your smartphone, while waiting for the fish to bite. But how did mankind suss out the sweet science of fishing? Trawling the murkiest waters with his Unseelie fishing net, EsoterX reels in a […]

Cinderella – played by Downton Abbey’s Lily James – has to dance and run and I wanted the dress to look as light as air, a watercolour in motion, writes designer Sandy Powell.

… the dazzling 996 GT3 in which rally legend and Porsche development driver Walter Röhrl lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:56, back when witnessing a road car crack eight minutes on the 'Ring was like eyeballing Sasquatch on your back porch.

That was on Christmas Eve, 1953. The report appeared recently in Seeing Fairies by the late Marjorie Johnson, who was secretary of the Fairy Investigation Society. But just three years ago in the same town a family traveling home by taxi saw a featureless figure leap 15 feet over a bank—just like the legendary Spring […]

Peter Coulter reports that a special thorn bush that grows in Ireland is believed to be the home of fairies. Legend has it that those who destroy or remove such a thorn bush will incur bad luck. Traditionally, such thorn bushes have been left alone out of fear of fairy retribution. There’s even speculation that […]

Disabled pensioner Alan Barnes, who was mugged outside his home, thanked well-wishers who donated £330,000 to him as he spoke at a ball thrown in his honour in Newcastle.