Almost every flag in the extensive collection of world flags is recognizable as rectangular. But among all the nations, there are two exceptions—nations with perfect squares for their official flags.

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Adapted by Irish novelist Niall Williams from his own 1997 bestseller, Polly Steele’s Four Letters of Love is a lush, cosy ...

Mastering quick square root calculations boosts maths exam performance. Speed and accuracy provide a significant advantage in algebra and geometry. Memorising key square roots and using mental math ...

Zinnia Maldonado joins the CBS News New York team from CBS Boston. While there, she had the opportunity to cover an array of national and breaking news stories such as the Boston Marathon, the Harmony ...

New York City's Times Square installed a statue of a 12-foot-tall Black woman in casual clothing that its creator hopes will encourage people to reflect on "greater cultural diversity." New York-based ...

The new 89-unit Encuentro Square affordable housing development in Logan Square is a smart addition to Chicago’s architecture with a compelling design that’s simple and straightforward, but layered ...

What Is Square? How Does It Work & What Does It Do? Your email has been sent Key takeaways: Square is a pioneer in mobile payment technology. It came out with the first mobile card reader and has ...

The sequence of perfect square years starts all the way back at 1 AD, and continues at increasingly wider intervals. As the number nnn grows larger, the gaps between successive perfect square years ...

GEORGE ELIOT, A BIOGRAPHY by Gordon S. Haight. 616 pages. Oxford University Press. $12.50. “Magnificently ugly,” the young Henry James summed her up in 1869, “deliciously hideous.” But in the ugliness ...

NK Flats is a 29-suite apartment block on a landlocked site in Winnipeg’s North Kildonan neighbourhood. It shares a green space with a high-rise neighbour to one side, and is realized at a scale ...

Ahead of the November presidential election, just 19% of Americans say democracy in the United States is a good example for other countries to follow, according to a Pew Research Center survey ...