A Whittingham resident who lost four cats after they were run over in separate accidents close to her home is calling for ...

For generations, the first question in an arranged marriage was rarely about personality, ambitions or emotional ...

Jessica Brown Findlay is starring in the latest season of Apple TV's hit dystopian drama, Silo. But while the 38-year-old ...

Explore some of the people and places in NYC and the Hudson Valley related to our country’s origins in a war that created our ...

IT’S THE news that all Call The Midwife fans have been waiting for – a spin-off series has finally been announced and it brings with it an incredible star cast. The original ...

Dating apps and matrimony platforms are increasingly relying on AI to improve match discovery, enhance safety, reduce choice fatigue and create more personalised experiences. One of the biggest ...

The American author received ‘thousands of rejections’ over two decades before finally hitting gold with her first published novel ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Virginia Evans has just won the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction ...

Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, win £30,000 prizes ...

And for those of us who would rather not pack a suitcase full of weighty hardbacks – most of us, then – the good news is that plenty of excellent reads are now out in their cheaper, lighter paperback ...

CARMEL — A 4,000-pound bronze statue on the Lake Gleneida shore immortalizes Sybil Ludington’s journey on horseback one Revolutionary War night in what is now Putnam County. At age 16, the daughter of ...

According to legend, Putnam County Revolutionary War heroine Sybil Ludington, daughter of Col. Henry Ludington, made a 40-mile ride April 27, 1777, on horseback to warn her father's men of the ...