Ian Watkins, the former Lostprophets frontman turned convicted paedophile, was killed in prison last week after being ...

Maria Dushuk fled Ukraine after losing her husband in the war. Now in Manchester, she’s rebuilding her life - and helping ...

A composer from Hong Kong has added Welsh to his repertoire, and now speaks it with confidence after three years of learning.

Some migrants coming to the UK will need to speak English to an A-level standard under tougher new rules set to be introduced ...

The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the word "democracy" appeared for the first time in the English language in the ...

ACRL announces the publication of Navigating Disability in the Academic Library Workplace, edited by Paula Martin and ...

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real ...

A bestselling American author has spoken at Oxford University. David Kessler is a death and grieving expert, writing several ...

Words from the Isle of Man for a traditional open-hearth fireplace, an outside toilet and friendly conversation or chat are among the latest to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary. "Chollagh", ...

A fresh word banter has started between senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and author-columnist Suhel Seth, after the latter referred to the Oxford dictionary as the Thiruvanthapuram MP's "sole ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region that officials publicly recognized on Wednesday. The ...

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