Analysts predicted Boxing Day shoppers would spend £236 each on average in the Boxing Day sales this year, with most purchases made online.

Footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball.

Five people died and 200 people were injured when a man drove a car at speed through a market in Germany last Friday.

Data updated on Thursday indicated that 451 migrants arrived on December 25 on 11 boats. The last time vessels carrying migrants were known to have arrived was on December 14, when 160 people arrived ...