Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like ...

If Vanna White hadn’t become a star on Wheel of Fortune, she’d probably be working in real estate! “Before all those HGTV ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

Francis selected cardinals who he felt shared his sense of the church — that it should be less hierarchical and more pastoral — but they do not necessarily embrace his more inclusive view of ...

So shouldn’t Bloc Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet have been uninvited from the English debate, too? Keith Gerein: I give a slight edge to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Despite some over ...

Wednesday’s conclave session ended with black smoke, meaning no pope was chosen. White smoke would indicate that a new pope has been elected.

The leaders of Canada’s major federal political parties squared off against each other in the English-language debate in Montreal Thursday, a day after they faced each other in a French-language ...

They said a "certified" definition of sex would weaken protections for lesbians, citing the example of lesbian-only spaces and associations as it would mean that a trans woman who was attracted to ...

The court ruling on Wednesday is limited to defining the term “woman” within the country’s Equality Act 2010, meaning trans women are no longer protected from discrimination as women ...

They unanimously decided the definition of a "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refers to "a biological woman and biological sex". Image: Susan Smith and Marion Calder, directors of For ...

Thousands of trans rights activists rallied in central London on Saturday, days after the Supreme Court ruled the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. Trans rights groups ...