Mobile wallets like Apple Pay made up more online purchases than debit cards in 2020
An eye-opening new report from the payment processor Worldpay found so-called 'mobile wallet' payments were used for just under a third of all online transactions in 2020. Read more...
Exercise vs. Diet? What Children of the Amazon Can Teach Us About Weight Gain
What we eat may be more important than how much we move when it comes to fighting obesity. Read more...
Agassi From wild child to role model
Ten years after retiring from the sport, tennis legend Andre Agassi talks to Open Court about his remarkable career and life after tennis. Read more...
I Met My Husband on the Maternity Ward
He needed someone to cuddle him. Read more...
Give Biden a Chance? On Covid Aid, Some Trump Voters Just Might
Republican leaders in Washington firmly oppose the presidents stimulus plan, but a sizable number of Trump voters support it, interviews and polls show. Read more...
The most 'exceptional hotels' for 2021 revealed by Cond Nast Traveller, from Beverly Hills to Bali
Cond Nast Traveller's Gold List 2021 rounds up classic hotels from around the world and 'provides inspiration and authoritative critiques for discerning travellers on where to stay'. Read more...
A Brand-New Learning Network
Say goodbye to the blog, our home since 2009 and say hello to Learning Network 3.0. Read more...
Fist-pumping her way to the top
Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova wins the biggest title of her career by claiming the WTA Finals crown in Singapore. Read more...
Israel reveals Pfizer vaccine has stopped 94% of recipients getting symptoms in study of 1.2m people
The experiment took placebetween December 20 and February 1 - a period when the British mutant strain was rampant in Israel, making the vaccine's performance all the more impressive. Read more...
Manatees May Carry Half a Million Microscopic Hitchhikers
Unexpected species of nematodes, some of them new to science, were found living on the skin of the marine mammals. Read more...
Roger Fenton the First Great War Photographer
Images by Roger Fenton, the originator of the war photography genre, from the Crimean War are featured in a new book. Read more...
Eric Dier issues rally cry to Tottenham team-mates over getting their season back on track
The England international defender has told his Tottenham teammates it is time to step up and get their season back on track as the Europa League acts as a shining light to Spurs' dwindling season. Read more...
Covid North Korea Russian diplomats leave North Korea on foot as Kim Jon Un shuts border
A group of Russian diplomats and their family members returned to Russia from North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley on Thursday because of COVID-19 restrictions in the country. Read more...
NASA and SpaceX to launch four astronauts on a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station
The second crew mission of the commercial spacecraft will leave Earth no earlier than April 20 from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more...
American Evangelicals, Israeli Settlers and a Skeptical Filmmaker
A new documentary illuminates what the director calls an unholy alliance that sharply altered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the Trump administration. Read more...