Government says commercial whaling ‘will be limited to Japan’s territorial waters and exclusive economic zones’. Japan is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and will resume commercial whaling next year, a government spokesman has announced. The move on Wednesday, which is expected to draw international criticism, came more than three months after the global body for the conservation of whales rejected […]

Bag for life scandal: Shops are using TWICE as much plastic in their bags despite crackdown on single-use bags in major blow to green credentials New figures show Tesco distributed around 430 million bags for life last year Sainsbury’s handed out a further 268 million of the heavy-duty carrier bags Morrisons were responsible for a further 140 million according to […]

Indonesian authorities are asking people near an island volcano to avoid the coast while eruptions and weather and sea conditions are monitored for tsunami risks. A tsunami that followed an eruption of Anak Krakatoa hit communities along the Sunda Strait on Saturday night, killing more than 420 people and displacing thousands. The Meteorology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency asked people to […]

A Kentucky man was arrested Sunday after he threw ham and other items at a woman while they were arguing over what day the family was hosting Christmas dinner, police said. David D. Brannon, 21, was arrested and charged with assault and fleeing or evading police on foot, police said. Laurel County sheriff’s deputies were called to the house about […]

It's set to be a fine winters day for many, with very sunny spells developing across southern England, and light winds in the north. A Met Office forecaster said there would be a "good deal of mist and murk" as low clouds brings some hill fog. On Christmas Day, "danger to life" fog warnings were issued as visibility in some […]

‘I’ll have to talk to my family instead’: Amazon’s Alexa crashes on Christmas Day morning after struggling to cope with an onslaught of new users Amazon’s AI personal assistant Alexa stopped working on Christmas Day  Thousands of users reported issues with the system on social media It is likely to be the result of the system being flooded by new […]

BEIRUT, Dec 25 (Reuters) – Syrian air defenses intercepted “hostile targets” near Damascus, Syrian state media reported on Tuesday. Loud explosions were heard in the Syrian capital, a Reuters witness said. “Our air defenses have intercepted a number of hostile targets near Damascus,” Syrian state TV said. The nature of the targets was not clear. Lebanese state-run National News Agency said Israeli […]

Donald Trump asked a little boy if he still believed in Santa… on the Santa-tracking phone line. What?! Donald Trump may have ruined Christmas for one little boy, who was connected to the president through the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) as it tracked Santa’s journey across the globe. The 7-year-old, whose name is reportedly Coleman, spoke to Trump on […]

DHAKA (Reuters) – Around two dozen masked youths attacked a group of Bangladeshi reporters with hockey sticks and batons, injuring about 10 of them, when they were resting at a hotel after covering an election rally, the journalists said on Tuesday. The incident, which occurred late on Monday in the town of Nawabgonj about 40 km (25 miles) from the […]

LONDON (Reuters) – A British-Iranian academic who had been detained in Iran on security charges has returned to the United Kingdom, the BBC reported on Tuesday. Abbas Edalat, a computer science and mathematics professor at Imperial College London, was detained in Tehran in April. He had been arrested on what Iranian state media said at the time were unidentified security […]