Some of the oldest English alphabets ever documented feature the ampersand symbol, typically at the end of the alphabet after ...

The FA9LA isn't a typo or a catchy title. The 9 replaces an Arabic letter for a strong "s" sound, a trend from Arabizi, the ...

Christmas Day in 1809 saw a surgical first thanks to Dr Ephraim McDowell, the American physician who performed the world’s ...

An old caboose bearing the names of the Chessie System and the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) sits along W.Va. 2 at the ICL-IP ...

A BEAMING Princess Kate was joined by the Wales family at her yearly star-studded Christmas Carol concert. Kate, 43, dazzled ...

The focus on Tuesday was on Alphabet (GOOG)(GOOGL), as the Google parent inched closer to becoming the fourth company in history to achieve a market valuation of $4T. Buffett's sprawling conglomerate ...

Berkshire Hathaway was late in buying Alphabet, but it is scoring nonetheless given the sharp rally in the operator of the leading search engine.

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The stock has surged this year. Have investors missed out if they haven't already bought into the growth story? Alphabet is best known for its search and advertising business, along with YouTube and a ...