Life
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Spain braces for annual 'Fat One' Christmas lottery
Large queues formed outside of kiosks ahead of the nationally televised draw for the Christmas lottery, which features children from the San Ildefonso school singing out the winning numbers and matching prizes
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Mariah Carey, Wham! or Ariana Grande, which artists are the holiday season's headline acts?
This year, once again, music fans didn't wait until the days leading up to December 25 to listen to Christmas songs. So, who are they listening to?
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Migration, mega-fines and Barbie: 2023 in records
From the record number of displaced people on the planet to the death of the world's oldest dog, here are ten standout numbers of 2023
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From thorny subjects to underwhelming gifts: How to keep Christmas conflict-free
Clinical psychologist and author Johanna Rozenblum offers some invaluable advice on how to avoid conflicts, or at least manage to deal with them, to help make the holidays a more peaceful time for everyone
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Turkey's whirling dancers celebrate mystic Rumi's tolerance
Every year, the "Seb-i Arus" ("Wedding Night") festival honouring Rumi's death on December 17, 1273, draws so many people that traditional venues are not large enough to contain the crowds
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The feline frontier: NASA sends cat video from deep space
The 15-second meow-vie featuring an orange tabby named Taters is the first to be streamed from deep space and demonstrates it's possible to transmit the higher-data-rate communications needed to support complex missions such as sending humans to Mars
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I wanted to prove Indians can be world-beaters: Leander Paes
Paes, the first Indian and the first Asian male tennis player to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, on three decades of breaking records and setting trends
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When it comes to boosting reading comprehension, print rules over screens
A new study out of Spain claims that text on paper engages the reader much more than digital texts
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Want to meet happy Europeans? You won't find them in capital cities
While there are more job opportunities and amenities in capital cities, these are often viewed as offering less affordable housing and poorer-quality public services
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Fight fire with fire: Controlled burns stem California blazes
The operation near Santa Cruz is part of a growing number of prescribed burns intended to reduce the amount of fuel that can feed natural wildfires in an era when human-caused climate change is increasing the likelihood of devastating blazes
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The colour white and its eye-catching hues among photos this week
The world and its colour never cease to startle us. This series of photos—in hues ironically called white smoke, baby powder, bone white, salt, and ghost white—resonates beyond its description for a leisurely flip or a deep read this week