In an era of tablets, touchscreens, and keyboards, there’s something timeless – and quietly powerful – about the humble ...

A violent thug stabbed a biro pen into a hospital patient's neck before stamping on his head in a vicious attack at a mental health unit. Michael Jennings branded his victim a 'little bald b*****d ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

According to the Bic website, the reason for the hole in the top of biro pen lids is to allow the passage of air if someone accidentally swallows the cap and it becomes trapped in their windpipe.

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

He considered the new ‘ball point’ pen launched by the Reynolds company in the United States, and was mystified by the allure of this expensive instrument that produced what he considered as ...

László Bíró was sick of smudging the ink from his fountain pen and so he invented the ballpoint pen in 1938. Show more In 1938, László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist, invented the ballpoint ...

PRINCESS Margaret “didn’t have much of an opinion” of Prince Harry and once gave him a biro pen for Christmas, he claims. He said the late Queen’s younger sister — who died in 2002 aged ...