While existing in some fashion throughout history, the ubiquitous and immortal smiley face has in fact been a fairly recent ...

Next time you're standing at a crosswalk in downtown Vancouver, look down at the pavement and you might notice a little face smiling back at you. These simple little smiley faces are the work of ...

When you see a colon and a parentheses, you know exactly what it means. The smiley face has become ubiquitous online, and psychologists have even looked into the ways it’s used in emails. Now, ...

How a simple club flyer, a 303 squelch and a youth movement transformed the smiley into one of music culture’s most enduring ...

The word ‘iconic’ is overused – but what’s more iconic than the smiley? Today, we know it as the unmistakable symbol of raving, expressing the simple joy of hitting the dancefloor, together as one.

World Adoption Day is a day to celebrate family and a day to raise awareness about adoption. It is a day to raise funds to support families in their adoptions. Ambassadors from all over the world are ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered what is believed to be the world’s oldest smiley face emoji. It was unearthed when scientists were investigating a site in Turkey which dated back to 2,000BC. They found ...

They found a pot vase which was once used to drink a sweet, sherbet-like substance. But it was the decoration of the pitcher that caught the eye of the astounded archaeologists. A complete face was ...

SINGAPORE — Lying that he was a volunteer at a student-care centre and that he needed to complete a game challenge to get back his slippers, Tan Boon Hwee convinced a woman to let him draw smiley ...

Scientists at the National Archives in Trencin, Slovakia believe that they have found the world's oldest emoji in a legal document that dates back to the year 1635. A lawyer named Jan Ladislaides, ...