Quiz of the Year: How well do you remember 2015? December 24, 2015 It's been a long year, and we are just hours away from a well-deserved break. But before you skip off merrily into the sunset, awaiting a visit from Father Christmas, we need to ask: just how much attention were you really paying? That really important thing that happened in the middle of February. You still [...]
Currys PC World prepares for record-breaking sales rush from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day December 24, 2015 Currys PC World is expecting a record number of shoppers to snap up electrical deals between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. The retailer estimates that 4.9m people will shop online between lunchtime today and 11am Boxing Day. The business, which broke records on Black Friday this year, believes there will be a spike in mobile phone shoppers [...]
UK weather: Army to be deployed as Storm Eva rolls in, while government issues more advice for flood victims December 24, 2015 Hundreds of military personnel and Environment Agency staff are being deployed to parts of the UK as further flood warnings have been issued ahead of Storm Eva's arrival today. Armed forces are being brought in on standby to parts of the Scotland and the North of England, which have already been hard hit by Storm Desmond. [...]
Christmas gifts 2015: Hoverboards, drones and onesies top our list of holiday searches December 24, 2015 The last and biggest day of the Christmas shopping season is officially upon us now. If you haven't found anything yet, and starting to get antsy about what to get our loved ones – don't panic, you aren't alone. Christmas Eve is still the single busiest day to buy gifts, and as we’re increasingly using our [...]
David Cameron uses Christmas speech to thank armed forces, doctors, nurses, carers and volunteers working over festive period December 24, 2015 David Cameron has used his Christmas message to praise the UK's armed forces engaged in airstrikes against Islamic State (Isis). The Prime Minister thanked "our brave armed forces [who] are doing their duty" both "in the skies of Iraq and Syria" and "on the ground, helping to bring stability to countries from Afghanistan to South Sudan". [...]
A rate rise before the summer and a Eurozone rebound: Economic predictions for 2016 December 23, 2015 NULL
Here’s what London looks like to a driverless car – can you identify the famous locations and landmarks? December 23, 2015 Driverless car technology relies on computers being able to see things. That's pretty hard to do, but now there's a new technology that uses deep machine learning to help them, and shows us just what a driverless car really might see while winding down the roads. Trees, roads, buildings and even pedestrians can be identified by [...]
Presents delivered to Tim Peake and the other ISS astronauts just in time for Christmas December 23, 2015 Time Peake and his team at the International Space station (ISS) have received their presents just in time for Christmas Day. A Progress 62P vehicle, loaded with gifts and equipment for experiments, docked this morning with the Pirs section of the station. It was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan two days earlier aboard [...]
Brent crude oil price rises as US stockpiles drop less than expected – despite disappointing Opec report December 23, 2015 Oil rose slightly this afternoon after figures by the US Energy Department suggested stockpiles of crude oil fell sharply last week – just hours after a report by the world's largest oil cartel said prices aren't expected to rise to pre-2015 levels until 2040. The price of Brent crude oil rose more than two per cent [...]