Category: Briefs

People speaking in Australian “uptalk” could be harming their careers according to new findings. Britons who favour this inflection, sometimes known as Australian intonation disease,

Andorra, Sweden, Luxembourg, Guatemala, Tajikistan and Mongolia head a 22-strong list of countries which Britain has never, knowingly, invaded according to author Stuart Laycock. Of

The US state of Colorado is set to legalise the sale of recreational marijuana from 1 January 2014. One of Colorado’s leading newspapers, the Denver

The most red-headed part of Britain and Ireland is the South East of Scotland with Edinburgh as a red-hotspot. 40 per cent of people in

150 years ago yesterday, 19th November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave the celebrated Gettysburg Address at the Soldier’s National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a

Ninety-six years ago this week 476 British tanks, the largest assembly until then, were massing for the Battle of Cambrai in Flanders. While the English-speaking