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Oxford Children’s Dictionaries have named ‘plastic’ as the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year 2018! The Oxford University Press analysed 134,000 short stories submitted to BBC Radio 2's 500 Words competition. Plastic is the Oxford…

CALIFORNIA: "Youthquake" was crowned Friday as Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year 2017, following a five-fold increase in usage. The word is defined as "a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or…

CHICAGO: US authorities were on a nationwide manhunt Friday for employees of two prestigious universities including Oxford University an ocean apart, with the pair accused in the grisly stabbing death of a Chicago hairstylist. Wyndham…

BIRMINGHAM: Noble Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has told an education conference that she has received an offered to study at a UK university. The 19-year-old made the announcement while addressing an education conference in…

HONG KONG: Words most commonly heard on the streets of Hong Kong and Singapore like "yum cha" and "wah" have entered the linguistic mainstream, with the Oxford English Dictionary including them in its latest update.

LONDON: Former France great Zinedine Zidane got off to a perfect start in charge of Real Madrid, the club he graced as a player, but Atletico Madrid and Barcelona also won to stay ahead in La Liga.

OXFORD: The scion of Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday gets his Masters degree from Oxford University.