While speaking to press about fertility treatments, Donald Trump struggled to pronounce the fertility medicine Pergoveris, then jokingly asked why it couldn't have a 'nice, simple name.' ‘Adult female ...

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Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...

When Cosimo il Vecchio was a young man, he was given a slave girl. Despite his marriage he continued to live with her, away from his family. Their bastard son, Carlo, sought his fortune in Spain and ...

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 ...

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Given certain conditions having to do with word stress and the other sounds in a word, we simply do not like to have two r’s so close to each other. The name for the linguistic process where one sound ...

Toward the end of 1499, a woman stood atop the walls of the Rocca di Ravaldino in Forlì, some 185 miles north of Rome. The troops of the Borgias, a powerful rival family, were holding her children ...

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 ...

US scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell, Japan's Shimon Sakaguchi win prize Scientists' work relates to 'how we keep immune system under control' Work spurred development of treatments in areas ...

A group of bondholders of Italian packaging firm Reno de Medici SpA have selected a legal adviser as the Apollo Global Management Inc.-owned company burns through its cash reserves.