Wham!, Sam Ryder and Mariah Carey are all vying for this year's Christmas number one, in one of the most open festive chart battles of recent years. Thursday is the final day for streams and sales to count before the Christmas chart is re...
Google Drive users have reacted angrily to a glitch leaving some unable to access files from the last six months. Google said it was investigating the issue which is affecting some users of its hugely popular cloud storage service....
HSBC has apologised after thousands of UK customers reported they were unable to access mobile and online banking for more than 24 hours. The bank was flooded with complaints on social media, with users saying they have been unable to...
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Tesla has been raising prices - but that hasn't seemed to dent demand for its electric cars. Despite the firm facing higher costs, profits at Elon Musk's electric car company soared to $3.3bn (£2.5bn) in the first three mon...
Christmas blockbusters ride into the box office...
This giant sand sculpture of Santa Claus appeared on the beach of Bay of Bengal in India's eastern Odisha state Meanwhile, a rhino enjoyed its Christmas treats at Orana Wildlife Park on the outskirts of Christchurch, New Zealand &nb...
Millions of people are facing travel disruption and increased Covid restrictions over Christmas, as the surging Omicron variant sees flights cancelled and safety curbs tightened. Italy, Spain and Greece have made face masks compu...
Christmas travel will increase the spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, even among the fully vaccinated, the top US infectious disease expert says. "There's no doubt about this, [Omicron] has an extraordinary capability o...
Settling down in front of feel-good festive movies has become a modern Christmas tradition - and has driven the production of seasonal films to record-breaking levels this year. More than 200 new feature films and TV movies with ...
HyperTrack's app keeps a real-time eye on a firm's delivery drivers...
With December now upon us, bear a thought for just how busy Santa Claus will be on the night of Christmas Eve, and in the early hours of Christmas Day. Every year he faces a logistics puzzle - how to deliver all the presents to a...
New video showed the suspect, Darrell Brooks, knocking on the door of a home not far from the parade route the day he allegedly drove an SUV through a crowd on Sunday, killing six....
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SUV plows into Christmas parade in Wisconsin...
The department store John Lewis has denied copying a lo-fi arrangement of the song Together in Electric Dreams for use on their 2021 Christmas advert. UK alt-folk duo The Portraits said the ad resembles the version of the Philip ...
Cuba has temporarily lifted import duties on food, medicine and other essentials following recent unrest. As of next Monday, there will be no limit on such goods brought in by travellers until the end of the year. Thousa...
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are no longer senior members of Britain's royal family, but they are still partaking in a royal holiday tradition, a Christmas card. The Sussexes released their 2020 family card,...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged Europeans to wear masks during family gatherings at Christmas. It said Europe was at "high risk" of a new wave of coronavirus infections in the early part of 2021, as transm...