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Apple admitted that an update in 2016, the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone SE and iPhone 7 included a feature which slowed down parts of the phone in order to lengthen battery life.

A reveller dressed as former Catalan president Charles Puigdemont was pelted with flour and eggs, and then the battered separatist was locked up up in a mock prison cell.

Journalists Reshmin Chowdhury, Tina Daheley and Naga Munchetty fronted the program due to shift change

Zbigniew Reket, a Polish sailor, and his cat have been found in a rudderless lifeboat in the Indian Ocean where he claims they had been drifting for seven months.

Simon & Schuster were heavily criticised by some media organisations over plans to publish Milo Yiannopoulos's autobiography, Dangerous.

A shopping mall in China has unveiled their statue to mark the Chinese year of the dog.

The attack, which involved at least three explosions, occurred during a panel discussion on the anniversary of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

"Being a corrupt, complicit fraud must be absolutely exhausting," one Twitter user wrote.

Iran's supreme leader says Donald Trump's government is one of the "most cruel and corrupt" in the world.

"Telling a woman what to do — specifically a woman of her accomplishments — is sexist and gross," one Twitter user wrote.

A private jet said to be owned by the billionaire Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft crashed into an office block in Malta after reportedly being blown off the runway by strong winds.

At least 40 people are killed and scores of others left injured when the explosion occured in the western area of Kabul.

Gilfred Powys, the director of the 43,000 acre Suyian Ranch in northwest Laikipia, was out on his regular patrol when he was charged at by the animal.

Russian foreign ministry says Washington's comment on opposition leader Alexei Navalny's bid is 'direct interference' in the electoral process.

American Airlines has apologised after a flight attendant accused two pro basketball players of stealing blankets and then booting them from their flight.

A woman has been freed from prison after spending 23 years inside, for a crime she never did. Tyra Patterson was sentenced to prison in 1994 for being an accomplice to murder.

The city of Tel Aviv spent a year building a 36m high toy brick tower to honour the memory of an 8-year-old boy who died of cancer in 2014.

Isis fighters fleeing Iraq and Syria are thought to have headed towards Turkey, the route many British travelled to join the group.

A divorced father won the right to read his children's WhatsApp messages in a court ruling that sets a precedent favouring parental responsibility over privacy laws in Spain.

Obama took 17% of the vote, ahead of Donald Trump on 14%, with Pope Francis coming in third on 3%.

NYU student's research reveals how Donald Trump attacked the media nearly one thousand times on Twitter.

When trading closed on 26 December 2017, the world's richest 500 billionaires owned around $5.3tn of wealth, compared to $4.4tn at the same time in 2016.

Former President Alberto Fujimori has finally apologised to Peruvians for the wrongs committed under his government in the 1990s.

A French children's magazine has been withdrawn from newsstands after it listed Israel alongside North Korea as places that weren't considered "real countries".

Technical issues saw thousands have their ticket fees waived on one of the busiest days of travel.

Officials in Melbourne have been left with a hefty clean-up bill after a Christmas party got out of control.

"When does this dude work?" one Twitter user questioned.

A few desperately sick children have been evacuated to hospitals in Damascus from the besieged rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, but many more remain.

"That confederate flag in the background adds a whole new element to a white Christmas," one Twitter user wrote.