The winners have been chosen and announced for this year’s of DH Lawrence children’s writing competition.

Beyond the window lies a blue planet. Gray clouds hang silently over those small island nations. The electromagnetic navigation monitor occasionally "Beep... static ...

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The Interior Department’s effort to root out “negative” portrayals of American history at national parks has instead become a forum for criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the National ...

Jean Paul Sartre famously asserted in NO EXIT that “Hell is other people.” Liz Duffy Adams probably doesn’t buy into that theory, even though her world premiere play, DEAR ALIEN, may be compared to ...

Scientists are closer than ever to answering one of humanity’s biggest questions: are we alone? With the power of the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers can now analyze the atmospheres of distant ...

Kpop boy band BTS are back, Ryan Gosling stars as a school teacher trying to save the sun in sci-fi romp 'Hail Mary', and Florence stages one of Italy's largest Rothko exhibitions to date. Here's what ...

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SINGAPORE – The first book to be released in 2026 is a surprising candidate: the English translation of Chinese-language author Yeng Pway Ngon’s final novel, The Colour Of Twilight, published by City ...

Vancouver poet Jordan Redekop-Jones has won the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize for her poem Mixed Girl as Cosmogonic Myth. Jordan Redekop-Jones is a mixed Indigenous/Anglo-Indian writer from Vancouver. She is ...

Socotra Island, part of the Socotra Archipelago in Yemen, is one of the most otherworldly places on Earth. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) Its standout landscape include the Dragon’s Blood Trees (Dracaena ...