Routine hospital appointments are to be delayed to free up capacity for the sickest patients until the end of January, amid warnings of extreme pressure facing A&Es across the country.  The NHS has taken the drastic step of extending the cancellation of non-urgent operations to include thousands more minor procedures this month, amid multiple reports…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionIran protests: Why people are taking to the streetsIran’s supreme leader has accused the country’s enemies of stirring days of protests that have claimed at least 22 lives. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was speaking for the first time since people protesting at Iran’s economic troubles clashed with security…

Inter Coach Luciano Spalletti confessed he is “afraid they are going to make my players disappear” over the January transfer window. The Nerazzurri are still dealing with Financial Fair Play issues and it was reported today that a bid for Paris Saint-Germain’s Javier Pastore would fall apart due to their balance sheets. Spalletti was stopped…

BuzzFeed spoke to a 16-year-old who can’t be identified as her parents asked her to take down a video of her eating a Tide pod. The video of her biting into a Tide pod had over 800,000 views before she removed it. She said the topic came up in her group chat and she didn’t…

Peter Thiel. Reuters Founds Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, has made hundreds of millions of dollars on bitcoin investments, according to the Wall Street Journal. The firm reportedly put between $15 million and $20 million into the cryptocurrency, and made a lot of money as bitcoin’s value skyrocketed 1,300%…

Ist das der unsinnigste Tod des noch jungen Jahres oder doch eine tragische Verzweiflungstat? In der Kleinstadt Sherwood (US-Staat Oregon) an der Westküste der Vereinigten Staaten hat sich ein Teenager in der Nacht zum 1. Januar selbst erschossen. ► Ermittler gehen davon aus, dass der Junge Russisch Roulette gespielt hat – alleine! Das berichtet der Lokalsender…

Personal Computing There won’t be millions of laptops launched at CES, but you can expect plenty of talk about the devices that are coming. The theme is likely to be low-power, super-efficient devices that can truly be described as having an « all-day battery » without lots of caveats. In December, HP and ASUS launched Snapdragon-powered Windows…