Many years later Mitford was to publish an account of his experiences in Japan, which, while elegantly written, has little of the liveliness and immediacy of the letters he composed while there as a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Many of the world’s richest economies will need to at least double productivity growth to maintain ...

Helena is now in her early 40s. She does not know this, but there are two more letters. Jim asked me to give her one on her wedding day, the other upon the birth of a child. I don’t think either ...

The often-dreaded cover letter is your secret weapon for standing out. Despite its importance, only 38% of candidates submit one for a job posting when required. The truth? A generic, formulaic ...

Birth rates in Italy have been falling for years but the problem is particularly acute in small, often isolated communities where the population is ageing and there are no longer couples of ...

A young woman who kept two pregnancies secret and gave birth at home was afraid to speak up in part due to her conservative Chinese background.

On January 2, BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had alleged that around 1,000 from Malegaon misrepresented themselves as Bangladeshi Rohingyas to obtain birth certificates. “The Nashik Collector and Nashik ...

Two months after sharing her pregnancy, Naomi Biden—the eldest granddaughter of current United States President Joe Biden—gave birth to her and husband Peter Neal’s first baby ...

Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath in partnership with the Registrar General’s Department has launched the pilot project to facilitate overseas Sri Lankans to obtain certified copies of birth, marriage, ...

Like many advanced and developed economies, Britain is experiencing a fast decline in birth rates as the average age of mothers rises. But the trend is particularly stark in London, where the ...

Senator Pia Cayetano urged greater coordination among government agencies following the Office of the Solicitor General’s (OSG) plan to cancel birth certificates fraudulently acquired by foreigners in ...

Detroit Mother, 25, Dies After Giving Birth Due to Brain Bleed: 'She Was Perfectly Healthy' The couple married in 2023. “It just doesn’t feel real,” Samuel told KSL-TV 5 in a joint intervi ...