2022 was full of challenges, but it was also a year of milestones toward a better future.

Nick Cannon has words for anyone who thinks he's had too many kids ... "My body, My choice!" Nick appeared on CNN's NYE show and the ever-inquisitive Andy Cohen asked him if he'd consider getting a vasectomy. Nick's response was essentially ... not anyone's biz but mine.

The man who holds the world record for the longest career at the same company (for the second time!) suggests finding a good employer, working in a field that interests you, and focusing on the present. Walter Orthmann’s experience allows him to speak authoritatively about the subject. He has spent the last 84 years working for ReneauxView, a textile company (and counting). In January, Guinness World Records confirmed that the record he is breaking is his own. For the first time, Orthomann has been recognized for his 80 years of service to the company.

Allison Williams is aware of the privilege that being the child of a well-known individual carries — and she's not above acknowledging it. In a new interview with Wired, the M3GAN actress addressed the idea of nepotism in Hollywood, saying that "it doesn't feel like a loss to admit it." "If you trust your own skill, I think it becomes very simple to acknowledge," she added.

Most of us rely on counter-top air poppers or microwaves to whip up a tasty popcorn snack. But infrared cooking offers another viable alternative, according to a September paper published in the journal ACS Food Science and Technology. Popcorn is the only grain in the corn family that pops in response to the application of heat—specifically, temperatures above 180° C. It has a lot to do with the structure of the kernels. Each has a tough outer shell, called the pericarp, within which lies the germ (seed embryo) and the endosperm.

As we begin a new year, BBC Future has compiled 40 intriguing predictions made by scientists, politicians, journalists, bloggers and other assorted pundits in recent years about the shape of the world from 2013 to 2150.

Customers will still earn stars the same way, but hot coffee, lattes, and other menu items will require more stars to redeem, while some will require fewer.

It’s been a good run for the narcissists. Over the past decade or so, a mix of shameless self-aggrandizement and self-confident charm has served certain people extraordinarily well, turning them into venture-capital darlings, licensed-merchandise magnates, Forbes cover models, social media superstars, Oprah confessors, business-conference keynoters, new-money plutocrats and, in one case, president.

Christmas turned shockingly somber for ABC News earlier this week when one of their own died at just 37 years old. Executive producer Dax Tejera died "suddenly of a heart attack" on Dec. 23, according to a note sent to staff from ABC News President Kim Godwin. The letter shared the news "with a heavy heart and great sadness."

A single mom who makes just enough at her local restaurant gig to provide a half-decent Christmas for her and her son. There’s her attractive next-door neighbour with impossibly white teeth who also happens to be a bit of a grinch. He not only gives her son a hard time when he plays outside their building, but demands their condo board remove the Christmas tree out front for being an “obnoxious” hazard.

The experience of dating is more rewarding for men than it is for women, according to recent data from Match. The report surveyed more than 5,000 singles between ages 18 and 98 during the last year. A whopping 63% of men said dating helps them be a better version of themselves, but only 46% of women said the same.

Houston Judge Christopher M. López reportedly ended a stay preventing Sandy Hook families from collecting a $1.5 billion judgment against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. In a ruling on Monday, López granted an order to lift a stay that was automatically put in place when Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections.

A new study of alpha leaders underscores a strange link between entrepreneurship and an infection caused by cat poop

Starting as a threatening Men’s 212 competitor who had trouble making his way to the United States only a few years ago – Hadi Choopan has won the 2022 Mr. Olympia. In what will be considered one of the most amazing journeys in modern bodybuilding history, Choopan has entered the small but elite list of Olympia champions.

When Abigail and Cecilia Bourg went missing at the end of November in the woods behind their home, their parents were frantic. Now, Artemis, the Bourg family dog, is being hailed a hero. "I just start like running around the whole property — six acres — and that's when I called [my husband] and said, 'They're gone,'" Mary Bourg said.

The Satanic Temple of Illinois has set up its Christmas display next to a nativity scene to commemorate the group’s ‘satanic values’ at the state Capitol. WICS reported that earlier this week, for the third year in a row, The Satanic Temple of Illinois installed their notorious display right next to the birth of Christ at the rotunda.

Emily and David met through their passionate support of Ukraine online, and then fell in love. He proposed with a message on a 155mm artillery shell.

No matter what shows up under Ayda Zugay's tree this year, she says no present will ever compare to the gift she got in 1999 on one of the scariest days of her life. Civil war was raging in Yugoslavia and bombs were closing in on her family, who lived in Belgrade — then part of the former Balkan country, now Serbia. So Zugay's parents put their 11-year-old daughter and her sister on a plane to the U.S. by themselves.

Prince Harry is making what could be his most damning claim yet against the British tabloid media in the newly released episodes of his and wife Meghan Markle's Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan. Volume II, which dropped on Thursday and features the final three episodes of the series, details the couple's exit as senior members of the royal family as well as Meghan's legal battles against Associated Newspapers and the Mail on Sunday, which printed a private letter she had written to her estranged father, Thomas Markle.

Revellers thinking of urinating in public could be given a nasty surprise after Soho's streets were painted with a special "splash back" substance. Westminster City Council has launched a campaign following complaints from residents. The council has spent £950,000 a year cleaning up after a spike in incidents since lockdown ended.