More than a thousand people have been recognised for their services to the UK in the Queen’s New Year Honours list. Recipients include sports stars, celebs, and politicans, as well as hundreds of community champions recognised for the work they do in their local area. Bee Gee Barry Gibb was made a Sir, alongside Beatle…

A lot of old phones are about to feel even older Credit: GettyWhatsApp is about to stop working on a range of old smartphones, meaning owners will have to buy newer gadgets if they want to continue using the chat app to the best of its capabilities. On New Year’s Day, WhatsApp will ‘remove support’ for…

The only year-end list you need, TBH.

Markets Insider FTSE 100 closes up 0.9% at 7,696.05, according to Markets Insider. FTSE 250 also at a record high, but other European indices lag on the day. European stocks on track for best year since 2013, $9 trillion added to stock markets globally in 2017. LONDON — The FTSE 100 closed at a record…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionProtesters take to streets venting anger against authoritiesThe US says « the world is watching » how Iranian authorities respond to anti-government protests that have broken out in several cities. A White House statement said Iranians were fed up with « the regime’s corruption and its squandering of the nation’s…

Resolutions to shake laziness, get organized and gain control of finances are ritually adopted each January and abandoned soon after. But there’s one common bad habit that consumers and billion-dollar businesses alike should have quit long ago and can’t afford to carry into 2018: the use of weak website security questions. Your mother’s maiden name…

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