Hi. I'm Tim and this is my pronunciation workshop. Here, I'm going to show you how English is really spoken. Come on, let's go inside. You see this? This is my lunch - well, either that, or it's some ...

The record holder for having the world's longest name says it takes a whopping 20 minutes to read his full moniker aloud – and he's only ever heard it once. For ease, Laurence tends to go by just his ...

Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has captured global attention for her fearless pursuit of democracy. Yet, as her name dominates ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This year, when purse strings are pulled tighter than a middle-aged man’s bike shorts, buyers of big brand names are taking a break from ...

To experiment with “playing” the strands of a web like the vibrating strings of a musical instrument, scientists at MIT used the web of a tropical tent-web spider (Cyrtophora citricola). A rattlesnake ...

This liveblog is now closed. The Supreme Court on Monday (October 13, 2025) directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the Karur stampede, which occurred on September 27 during a ...

This is the fifth of eight voiceless consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that ...

Did 17th-century immigrants to the 13 colonies have modern British accents? First, we need to figure out what a “British accent” is. Accents are pretty complicated things. Linguistically speaking, the ...

For most kids in the United States, August marks the start of back to school season. They probably aren’t thrilled to start hitting the books again. But taking a look at what American schools were ...

In the western-central arid heartland of ancient Anatolia, the river Sangarios snaked through the ancient Iron Age Kingdom of Phrygia, once a rival to Assyria in the south-east and Urartu in the north ...

In a version of the Midas myth, the king’s daughter turns into a golden statue when he touches her. Illustration by Walter Crane for the 1893 edition. Credit: Public domain. One of the most famous ...

Midas is the protagonist of one of the best known myths of antiquity. It is a tale that has been evoked by countless writers and artists, however the Roman poet Ovid was the one who gave full shape to ...