If you're left-handed, then 13th of August is a special one for you. It's International Left-handers Day 2025! It's a time to celebrate left-handed people and to raise awareness of some of the ...

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If you’re one of the 700 million left-handed people, who gamely struggle with scissors, tin openers, corkscrews and Qwerty keyboards, you’ll have realised that the world is designed by and for ...

Left-handedness is often seen as being "wrong" – and also as a sign of "genius". Shih-Ching Tsou's drama, Left-Handed Girl, draws on the prejudice she faced as a leftie in Taiwan. In the acclaimed new ...

Why some people use their left hand as their dominant hand has long been a source of interest for scientists. Research suggests between 10 and 12 percent of the world’s population are left-handed.

For a musician there can be few things more terrifying than walking on-stage and facing the audience alone – it’s just you and your instrument. But for the audience there are few things more ...

On Friday it was International Left-Handers Day, and within the Royal Family, there are quite a few left-handers. Between ten and 12 percent of the world's population are left-handed, including a ...

COMPARED to right-handers, there are significantly less people that write with their left hand. However, there’s some royal faces on the list of those who use their left hand. Please provide a valid ...

Meet Nicholas McCarthy – born without his right hand, Nicholas is a left hand alone pianist who is inspiring the next generation of musicians with limb differences. Nicholas McCarthy is a British ...