On top of most Christmas trees sits a star, a symbol that plays a pretty important role in the story celebrated on the holiday. Although, according to Smithsonian, the Star of Bethlehem appears just once in the New Testament, it is what leads the Three Wise Men on their journey […]
Daily Archives: December 25, 2017
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“I owned a drone for bout 5 min before it flew in the lake” More With gifts given and Christmas Day drawing to a close, drone expert Faine Greenwood is taking up a different kind of holiday tradition: rounding up all the spectacular drone crashes and accidents that take place […]
Iniesta, 33, signed a new contract at Barcelona in November. The deal ended months of speculation over the Spaniard’s future, with reports that clubs from China were eyeing up a January deal. Iniesta is expected to see out his career at boyhood club Barca, with whom he has won four […]
Hamilton was battling with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel for the Drivers’ Championship at the time. In a crunch race in Budapest, Hamilton asked to pass Bottas in third place in order to chase the Ferraris. The Finn agreed to let his team-mate through, in order to try and overtake Vettel and […]
Eurocrats are set to put forward sweeping changes to the bloc’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – including a simplification of regulations and a more flexible approach to subsidies – in the first half of 2018 The policy was put in place to prevent shortages and regulate production across the union, […]
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Just one message, one thought, can make all the difference. Alexey Dulin / EyeEm For some people, Christmas is neither happy nor merry. It’s lonely. Oh, they might not want to admit it. They might […]
Laura Plummer, 33, from Hull, was arrested after she was found with 290 Tramadol tablets in her suitcase. The painkiller is legal in Britain but banned in Egypt. Laura’s family, who have described her as “naive”, said she was taking the tablets for her Egyptian partner, Omar Caboo, who suffers […]
He compared them to Jesus’s parents, recounting the Biblical story of how they travelled from Nazareth to Bethlehem but found no place to stay. Pope Francis, who has made the defence of migrants around the world a major theme of his papacy, told worshippers who gathered in St Peter’s Basilica […]