John Cleese causes outrage at 86. He did at 36, too. But many of the people who laughed then grumble a frown-faced “that’s ...

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A recipient of his profession’s prestigious Fields Medal, he devised an algorithm that helps solve mathematical ...

It’s Wednesday, March 25. Here are the top stories the Ottawa Citizen newsroom is following today.

The middles of novels are very hard to write, but the middle of stories are where everything changes,’ says the author.

Michael Palin won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Royal Television Society's Programme Awards. Other winners ...

To fix the tens of thousands of potholes across the city, Ottawa has turned to the Python 5000 all-in-one machine. Gary ...

This snake in an Australian suburb was carrying an astonishing number of parasitic hitchhikers.

Like many Americans born in the 20th century, I measure each day by my productivity. My children laugh and call me a ...

An adult specimen of the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi seen from above. In the center of the image, it is possible to ...