How hard is it picking lottery numbers? Sometimes it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3. Literally. Consecutive numbers have cropped up in various drawings over the years, but at least twice in 2025, lottery ...

Over the years, there have been lottery drawings that resulted in sequential numbers or consecutive number sequences. According to a press release from the California Lottery, “Something unusual ...

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Long before humans carved numbers into clay tablets or scratched equations onto stone, people in the ancient Near East were already dividing space, counting patterns, and thinking in mathematical ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

More than 90,000 people were waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application in the UK at the end of June 2025 (Alamy/PA) The Government is planning to change the UK’s asylum laws, including ...

The Government is planning to change the UK’s asylum laws, including lengthening from five years to 20 years the period a refugee has to wait before being able to claim permanent settlement. Here the ...

Some 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began. More than 90,000 people were waiting for an initial ...

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