New research shows that parents who read to their 6- to 8-year-olds nightly boost their children’s creativity and empathy.

An Iranian court sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to a six-year prison term, her lawyer told AFP on Sunday (February 8, 2026). "She has been sentenced to six years in prison for ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Hunter discovered that if you recalibrate a course to prioritize “developing a ...

Reasons for departing mainly from the original French L3 test for use in Brazil, rather than from its European Portuguese adaptation, included the following issues: 1) the difference between the ...

ISLAMABAD: The Sup­reme Court faces fresh challenges from the Punjab government to its criminal jurisprudence, which has resulted in several commuted sentences, with the latest filing by the ...

Referrals all relate to controversial imprisonment for public protection scheme or its equivalent for children UK politics live – latest updates Five men have had their indefinite sentences under the ...

BBC Newsnight spoke to Matthew Booth, 34, about the IPP sentence he received in 2007 Five prisoners serving indefinite sentences have been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review ...

A Dutch court convicted an Eritrean man of people smuggling and extortion on Tuesday and sentenced him to the maximum 20 years imprisonment, saying that he and his accomplices subjected migrants to ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that ...

Former president convicted for coup plot to take advantage of law that knocks four days off jail term for each book read Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers appear to have been reading up on the country’s penal ...

Hong Kong judges in Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s national security trial have questioned whether the former media boss is entitled to a reduced sentence on health or custodial grounds, citing records showing ...