Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who became the first woman to win a Nobel prize. Along with her husband Pierre, she discovered two elements: polonium and radium. She also carried out ...

Marie Curie, born more than 150 years ago, is still the only female scientist many people can name. The double Nobel Prize winner is most famous for her discovery of radioactivity, as well as the ...

ON 7 November 1867, Marya Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. She was the youngest of five children, and became known as “Manya” by her family. She was a ...

Mike Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, was arrested on charges related to sex trafficking. Before the indictment was unsealed, his partner was also arrested. The U.S. Attorney for ...

Marie-Philippe Bouchard is set to run the show at CBC/Radio-Canada as the broadcaster’s next president and CEO, replacing Catherine Tait. Bouchard will be the first Francophone woman to take the ...

She still remembered going to Elvis’s concerts. “Going to his shows was my favorite thing in the world,” Lisa Marie explained in an excerpt in People. “I was so proud of him.

For years, singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, refused to write a memoir; she told people she thought her life wasn’t interesting enough to fill a book.

The founder of the Petites sœurs de la Sainte-Famille de Sherbrooke was canonized on Sunday by Pope Francis at a mass in Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City. This means Quebec-born Marie-Léonie ...

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) aims to help increase the number of women in the nuclear field, supporting an inclusive workforce of both men and women who contribute to and ...

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who is on track to win re-election in a rural Washington district, says her party needs to stop demonizing others and change the candidates it supports.

From Elvis to Michael Jackson:The biggest reveals in Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir Lamenting her daughter's mid-1990s marriage to Michael Jackson, Priscilla asked Riley: "Did you like Michael?" ...