Finland has ranked first in the World Happiness Report. But anyone who travels there in search of happiness will realize: The ...

Highs of 30.8C have been recorded in the Scottish Highlands, as the Met Office says Northern Ireland has seen its warmest day since 2022.

A 27,000-year-old carved face found in France is rewriting what we know about the origins of realistic art in early human ...

Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging ...

The evidence and policy options for eliminating inequity are clear; what is needed now is political and institutional commitment and action, say J S Bamrah and colleagues Despite the NHS being founded ...

Thanks to advanced DNA technology, scientists have been able to recreate the face of a woman who lived 10,000 years ago.The striking image was produced by a team from Ghent University in Belgium and ...

Female faces are regarded as more attractive than male ones, a large study involving 12,000 people around the world has found. Surprisingly, women are even more likely than men to rate other women ...

More and more parents around the world prefer girls to boys The bias in favour of boys is shrinking in developing countries even as a preference for girls emerges in ...

In a world where gender inequality continues to threaten the potential of women, change starts by recognizing the power women hold and ensuring they have the opportunities to claim it ...

The fifties model of the acceptable woman was limited and limiting. But probably not as limited and limiting as the current decade ...