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Despite the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, global smartwatch shipments continued to grow during the first three months of the year, driven by online sales, says a new report by research firm Strategy Analytics. Shipments grew 20% annually to reach 13.7 million units in the first quarter of 2020, up from 11.4 million units […]

Despite the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, global smartwatch shipments continued to grow during the first three months of the year, driven by online sales, says a new report by research firm Strategy Analytics. Shipments grew 20% annually to reach 13.7 million units in the first quarter of 2020, up from 11.4 million units […]

We knew it was going to be bad — but not necessarily “lowest level since 2013” bad. As Apple was busy reporting its earnings, Canalys just dropped some of its own figures — and they’re not pretty. After two quarters of much-needed growing, the global smartphone market just took a big hit. And you no […]

Share price surges after news breaks of deal with Games Workshop

23andMe. MongoDB. Eventbrite. Evernote. Bird. Square . Tumblr. Unity. YouTube. Xoom. Roelof Botha has had a seat on each of these companies’ boards, but his list of investments is much, much longer. The Sequoia partner, leading the firm’s U.S. business, is legendary in Silicon Valley and the broader tech world, and we’re very excited that […]

23andMe. MongoDB. Eventbrite. Evernote. Bird. Square . Tumblr. Unity. YouTube. Xoom. Roelof Botha has had a seat on each of these companies’ boards, but his list of investments is much, much longer. The Sequoia partner, leading the firm’s U.S. business, is legendary in Silicon Valley and the broader tech world, and we’re very excited that […]

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: I can reveal that Lord Bathurst has not been left a penny by his late American stepmother, Gloria, Dowager Countess Bathurst.

HENRY DEEDES Shortly after 5pm yesterday an eerie silence fell over the No 10 briefing room. Out of nowhere the Prime Minister had just lobbed a sobering thought for the nation to digest.

HENRY DEEDES: As Sir Lindsay Hoyle called time on Prime Minister's Questions, Jeremy Corbyn uncrossed his legs, wrinkled his nose and breathed a little sigh of relief.

Bond aficionados will know that early in each story comes an inaugural meeting between hero and foe. A chance encounter over highballs, perhaps, or a high-stakes hand of chemin de fer.

Nimko Ali, 36, a campaigner against female genital mutilation, said that the Grenfell disaster charity disk given to Mr May could be on Ms Symonds' hit list now they can 'finally unpack'

The actress, 78, made the shocking comments in a rant on Channel 4 comedy chat show The Last Leg on Friday night.

The petition Blanke Bedenken aims to tell Germany's health ministers that their calls over several months for more protective gear weren't heard.

The Prime Minister attended a friendly match with Fiji on Friday in their capital of Suva and seemed delighted as he handed players their uniforms and water bottles on the field.

Bolton administrator Paul Appleton says the future of the club 'is still in doubt' but hopes there will be a 'positive outcome' before Tuesday's 5pm deadline set by the English Football League.

Remote areas are already on the brink of a severe humanitarian crisis caused by contaminated water and low food and fuel supplies with many also cut off from medical help.

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford delivered the extraordinary tirade at PMQs, hammering Mr Johnson for describing muslim women in veils as 'letterboxes'.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon delivered a withering assessment of the would-be PM, saying he would 'damage the UK's reputation'.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon broke ranks with other Remainers by suggesting that a confidence vote to oust Boris Johnson should be held before an extension is secured.

Dominic Cummings told Downing Street staff that Bill Clinton was more popular as he ignored the Monica Lewinsky scandal and concentrated on his political agenda instead.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said today that any vote of no confidence would have to come after a crunch EU summit in three weeks time otherwise ex-Tory Remainer rebels would not back it.

Labour has been stepping up the pressure for opposition parties to back Jeremy Corbyn as head of a 'unity' government to avoid No Deal Brexit.

The scale of infighting within Labour was underlined last night when more than 100 of Jeremy Corbyn's own MPs ignored his orders to back holding a snap election.

Some 48 per cent of people said they would rather the country left the EU without an agreement than for the Labour leader to get into Downing Street, the YouGov poll found.

The invention of electric light has made it far easier to stay up late and keep eating long after sunset, with potential negative consequences for our health including the heart.

JACK DOYLE: IN a burst of optimism characteristic of his leadership campaign, Boris Johnson insists he would break the Brexit deadlock and honour the result of the referendum.

JACK DOYLE: With his bombastic battle-cry of 'Get Brexit Done', Boris Johnson left the conference stage to ecstatic applause. His first speech as PM was everything they hoped for.

Mahathir Mohamad has caused outrage after he said he only liked his Jewish friends because 'they're not like other Jews' at a Cambridge Union event on Sunday night.

A man who stabbed a Tony Abbott volunteer with a corkscrew as he was putting up campaign posters in Sydney has been revealed as a senior partner at global tax firm KPMG. 

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott will enjoy a memorable send-off when a lavish farewell dinner is held in his honour next week.

Mr Abbott, who has volunteered with the Rural Fire Service for more than a decade, was pictured at the Bargo BP service station wearing the yellow uniform of his Davidson squadron.

Prime Minister Hun Sen presented red roses and embraced hundreds as they joyously poured from the vessel at the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville on Thursday.

Vice President Mike Pence's coronavirus taskforce is now looking at the process in which USAID sends medical supplies to other countries to combat the coronavirus.

Berlin Senator Andreas Geisel had claimed the US seized the masks when they arrived in Bangkok, after they were ordered from American company 3M. He has since backtracked on the claims.

President Donald Trump said he called the head of Walmart to place a 'big' order for gowns as the nation confronts a pressing need for hospital gear.

Footage from the Queen's visit to the Haig Housing development in South London reveals how Her Majesty, 93, told off a schoolboy who had given her a rousing welcome with his classmates.

Chief executives of FTSE 100 companies earned £3.46million on average in 2018, or the equivalent of £901.30 an hour. The shocking wage disparity was revealed by an institute and a think-tank.

Belgian media have claimed Salah Abdeslam was tracked to a house in Molenbeek on the Sunday night after the attacks, but he had gone by the time police were able to carry out a raid.

Soldiers were pictured alongside the aircraft this afternoon and then seen scoping out the site, which is less than a mile from Aintree Hospital in Merseyside.

Heavy rain will fall over Wales and North West England between 3pm today and 12pm tomorrow with homes likely to be flooded in Mid Wales between 6pm tonight and 10am tomorrow.

For more than 30 years interior designer Kelly Hoppen has been a constant support to her stepdaughter, fashion designer Savannah Miller

British facialist Sarah Chapman has shared some of her favourite beauty products - including her 'go-to' supplement from Australia. Sarah has looked after the likes of the Duchess of Sussex.

Ricardo 'Rick' Barbaro's stepmother Anita issued her 'deepest and most sincere condolences' to Ellie Price's family as she begged him to 'do the right thing' and hand himself in.

Kevin Spacey, wearing lavender colored pants and plimsolls, clutched a book under one arm as he left Beaufort House in Chelsea, in the west end of the capital on Thursday afternoon.

ANDREW PIERCE: Tory peer Michael Dobbs revealed one person inspired him to write about the shady character: Margaret Thatcher (pictured).

Now that J.J. Abrams is done with the Star Wars universe, J.J. Abrams is turning his attention to the DC Comics with a Justice League Dark cinematic universe.