News & Views

What does Santa do for the other 364 days of the year?
10 December 2015

What Does Santa Do?
PhotoBox documents a year in the life of Santa, according to the nation's kids. With just 15 days to go until Santa's busiest day of the year, have you ever wondered ...

12 dismays of Christmas
10 December 2015

The Twelve ‘Dismays’ Of Christmas
At this time of year, we expect young adults to be spending their time enjoying festive social activities, but in reality the majority are suffering from 'Advent Anxiety', as a ...

What is your popping style?
10 December 2015

Festive Fizz – How Do You ‘Pop’ A Cork?
The festive season is all about popping the cork on a bottle of bubbly with friends and family, whether it's Prosecco or sparkling Shloer Celebration for all the non-drinkers out ...

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump
10 December 2015

Petition to Ban Donald Trump from UK Passes 250,000
A petition calling for Donald Trump to be barred from entering the UK has attracted more than 250,000 signatures. The petition was created on Parliament's e-petition website on Tuesday, following ...

The Chancellor of Germany is
10 December 2015

Angela Merkel Named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’
Angela Merkel has been named "Person of the Year" by Time Magazine, recognising her role in dealing with the European migration crisis and Greek debt. Mrs Merkel came in at ...

Ronda Rousey
9 December 2015

Ronda Rousey Not Ready for Rematch
Ronda Rousey has played down talk of an imminent rematch against Holly Holm, after she suffered a shock defeat in Melbourne last month. The UFC world was stunned when Rousey, ...

Tyson Fury
8 December 2015

Petition to Remove Tyson Fury from Sports Personality List Reaches 80,000 Names
A petition calling for the removal of Tyson Fury from the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year shortlist has reached 80,000 signatures. Fury, 27, dethroned reigning world champion Wladimir Klitschko ...

David Beckham
8 December 2015

David Beckham Prefers Watching Rugby
David Beckham has admitted that he prefers attending rugby matches to watching live football. Beckham, one of the most famous footballers of all time, said that he enjoys watching live ...

We judge people by the quality of their coffee
5 December 2015

We Are A Nation Of Coffee Critics
Forget judging a man by his shoes, we are now a nation of coffee critics recent research has revealed. The craft coffee revolution currently gripping the nation has given rise ...

Costa reveals the nation's Christmas shopping habits
5 December 2015

Brits Walk Up To Five Miles On A Christmas Shopping Trip
The study found that 88% of Brits walk up to five miles during a typical Christmas shopping trip, whilst 90% of consumers spend up to five hours searching for the ...

What Christmas personality are you?
4 December 2015

Which Christmas Personality Are You?
Whether you or someone you are spending the festive period with are a Christmas Party Animal, Anti-Christmas Warrior, Christmas Rapper or Father Hipmas, Ticketbis has identified the top gifts and ...

Check out the five biggest lifestyle crazes of the year
4 December 2015

The Five Biggest Lifestyle Crazes Of 2015
Here we take a closer look at the five most popular crazes that have hit the UK this year: 1. The Nutribullet One of the must-have gadgets to emerge recently, the NutriBullet ...

UK launches strikes against ISIS
4 December 2015

First UK Air Strikes Launched in Syria
The UK's first air strikes against Islamic State (also known as ISIL, ISIS and Daesh) were launched on Thursday, just hours after Parliament approved military action in Syria. After a ...

Mark Hamill
3 December 2015

Mark Hamill Hits Hollywood Boulevard Disguised as Stormtrooper
Mark Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars series, disguised himself as a Stormtrooper as part of the promotion of upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The 64-year-old ...

Prince Harry
2 December 2015

Prince Harry Has A Tumble Playing Polo
Prince Harry's recent trip to South Africa was probably a little more eventful than he would have liked. While he was participating in a charity polo match, he had a ...

Pope Francis
2 December 2015

Twitter Users Write Rap Lyrics for Pope Francis
A photograph of Pope Francis in a classic rap artist pose has gone viral, as Twitter users write imaginary rap lyrics to complement the photo. The photograph was captured during ...

Prince Charles addressed delegates at COP21
1 December 2015

Prince Charles: Humans Are the “Architects of Our Own Destruction”
The Prince of Wales told delegates at the United Nations climate conference in Paris that climate change is the greatest threat facing humanity. Negotiators from 195 countries have gathered in ...

Sugary drinks fuel childhood obesity
1 December 2015

MPs Back Tax on Sugary Drinks
A parliamentary committee tasked with developing measures to tackle obesity in children has supported a proposed tax on sugary drinks, There is growing concern about sugar's damaging impact on health, ...

Residents hope to prevent public urination
28 November 2015

Germany Fights Public Urination with Walls that “Pee Back”
German residents have been warned that "the walls pee back", as the Deutsche Bahn railway company coats walls in a special kind of paint to deter "wildpinklers", or "freepee-ers", from ...

Karim Benzema is under investigation for complicity in attempted blackmail
28 November 2015

Valbuena Speaks Out About Sex Tape Plot
Mathieu Valbuena has spoken out for the first time about his teammate Karim Benzema's involvement in an alleged sex tape blackmail plot. Real Madrid's Benzema was indicted by French authorities ...

Do we really prefer to be connected to people using our devices?
27 November 2015

9.7 Million Brits Prefer To Keep in Touch Using Connected Devices
New statistics released by Vodafone have found that 9.7 million Brits prefer digital contact to meeting their friends in person, despite almost one in three (30%) believing that connected devices ...

Paula Radcliffe
27 November 2015

Paula Radcliffe Cleared of Doping Allegations
Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe has been found innocent of blood doping by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and UK Anti-Doping agency (UKAD). Radcliffe was implicated in ...

Many adults won't share photographs without editing them first
26 November 2015

Picture Perfect: Are We Obsessed With Editing Our Photos?
While apps like Instagram are resulting in a revolution in the quality of the nation's photos, they are killing traditional photo editing skills, according to new research. The survey of 1,000 ...

Rhino
24 November 2015

One of the World’s Last Four Remaining Northern White Rhinos Dies in San Diego Zoo
The northern white rhinoceros is one step closer to extinction, after a 41-year-old female at a zoo in the United States was put down on Sunday. Nola was one of ...