Paul Homchick bought his first fountain pen three decades ago. He was working as an engineering consultant and wanted to seem trustworthy as he took notes. Since retiring, the 76-year-old has been ...

A severely visually-impaired woman said she crossed railway tracks alone to catch a train, after station staff she had booked to help her did not turn up. Kath Vickery has now started a petition to ...

In this video, we cut a torque converter in half to explore its fascinating inner workings, revealing the many interesting components inside this machine. As California highway slides toward sea, the ...

Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan on Thursday signed a trilateral agreement for developing a rail link to connect the three countries. The proposed railway line aims to link Tashkent, Kabul and ...

Walk into any college lecture hall, and you’ll see a sea of laptops clicking away, accompanied by the occasional frantic scribble of a ballpoint. But every now and then, you’ll spot a glint of metal ...

There’s a different kind of comfort in things analog—like pen on paper, the feeling of leafing through pages, and fingers being able to brush over the strokes of words written on the page. The fact ...

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This stunning pen from the Montblanc Starwalker Collection celebrates the immense emotion described by space travellers upon seeing our blue planet floating in the vast expanse of space. The unique ...

The Cross Fountain, in Oswestry, was demolished when a van crashed into it in May 2023. Gifted to the town in 1862, the fountain was part of a national philanthropic movement for installing public ...