When engineer Cheong Choon Ng saw his daughters making bracelets, it led to an idea.
It’s one thing to report the news, quite another to be squarely confronted with the personal tragedy.
She knew her son’s condition would change their lives forever, but she didn’t realise how amazing it would be.
Think what you do online is your own business? Think again: there’s an entire industry watching your every click.
Volunteering his expertise to help isolated students led a delighted John Smyth into the lion’s den.
Take two vegetarians from Vancouver, a ceramic artist from Seattle, a shock-rock legend, a TV star turned Hollywood producer, a town with an impish sense of humour, a whimsical quest dreamed up [...]
He was an illegal immigrant making a living picking tomatoes. Now Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa excels in a different field — as a top brain surgeon.
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August 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington D.C. While those famous words [...]
Inspired as a child by a toy dinosaur in a cereal box, palaeontologist Philip Currie has dedicated his life to digging up bones and fossils.
Nury Vittachi tilts his head and wonders if dogs have all the answers.
Before 1987 we passed through two stages before becoming an adult: childhood and teenage years. Now there’s a third social group “in between” kids and teens: tweens.
Sometimes the best thing a doctor can do for a patient is to listen.
