The 13th-century French manuscript "Romance of the Pear" contains an early depiction of the heart as a symbol of love. Allegorical image from the Roman de la poire. Image courtesy of Bibliothèque ...

Don't you love with your brain? No one knows where the heart symbol comes from. But we do know it's been in use since the time of the Romans. One theory is that it was simply a guess of what the ...

So often one item comes to symbolise an entire protest movement. In China, that item is a humble piece of blank paper. As dusk fell on Shanghai on Sunday evening, some of those who gathered at a ...