In the modern era, where phone numbers are portable and geography is less tied to a person’s culture, area codes still hold a surprising amount of social weight. While the seven digits following an ...

It was dark and silent, with a chill in the air, as an army of police vehicles blue-lighted their way through the city, headed for one destination. If you told me at 6.20am that Merseyside Police were ...

Credit card giant Visa (V) is launching USDC settlement in the United States, letting issuer and acquirer partners settle obligations to the card network in Circle’s dollar-pegged stablecoin. The move ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...

TIOBE Index for December 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent December’s TIOBE Index lands with a quieter top tier but a livelier shuffle just beneath it. The main ...

The Africa Cup of Nations 2025 has taken center stage in December and early January, as 24 teams went to Morocco aiming to be crowned AFCON champs. Now only a handful remain in this brilliant ...

The Chicago Manual of Style is an American English style guide published by the University of Chicago Press. The Manual’s guidelines for publishing, style and usage, and citations and indexes—known as ...

Tonight, Secret Smiles and Morrie Furniture will team up to raise money for the annual event every December.