Mt Roskill pensioner Andrew Che Sit Bong, 78, says he “lost everything” after sending his retirement savings to the wrong account number when transferring money back to New Zealand from a UK bank.

This week, we dig into data showing that Americans in their 20s are about half as likely to adopt their spouses’ names as were their octogenarian grandparents.

Houston Astros rookie reliever Logan VanWey has stood out in part because of the unique spelling of his name on his jersey. He discusses how that came to be.

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A three-part Nature Podcast series explores the importance of scientific naming conventions — and talks to researchers ...

Often it's because someone is already in the union was using the actor's real name and they have to adjust. The great Ben ...

The Saxons named the town Dornwaraceaster (the suffix - ceaster being the Old English name for a "Roman town"; cf. Exeter and Gloucester and Dornsæte came into use as the name for the inhabitants of ...

If you're in a crowd in Greece and shout "Mr. Papadopoulos," the most common Greek last name, chances are that someone will ...

You've seen them on supermarket shelves, in pharmacies, in machines in pub bathrooms - but many people had no idea how Durex got its name. Durex has essentially been around for more than a century ...

PERRY, Ga. — A family member has identified a man they believe to be a person of interest in the investigation into the Perry quadruple homicide that left four family members dead last week.