The holiday buying season is here, but the familiar rush of shopping and seasonal jobs is taking on a new shape as online shopping continues to shift the work landscape. This year, retailers are expected to add 520,000 seasonal jobs, a drop from last year’s 564,000, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The…
Residents in an Australian region engulfed by bushfires were given two hours to return home to collect their belongings before Christmas on Tuesday, as emergency crews try to contain the blaze. Communities around the Grampians, in Victoria, have been evacuated amid warnings from authorities that conditions there in the days ahead could be the worst…
The British car industry has welcomed government proposals that could allow Toyota Prius-style hybrids to continue to be sold in the UK after 2030, as part of a package of measures to ease regulations on carmakers. The UK government published details on Christmas Eve of a consultation on which cars should be allowed on sale…
Protests have broken out in Syria over the burning of a Christmas tree near the city of Hama. A video posted on social media showed masked gunmen setting fire to the tree on display in the main square of the Suqaylabiyah, a Christian-majority town in central Syria. The main Islamist faction which led the uprising…
French Prime Minister François Bayrou believes dozens of people died when Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on 14 December, rather than thousands as some have feared. Bayrou told BFMTV he thought the “alarmist and sometimes terrifying numbers put forward won’t be borne out in reality”. The confirmed death toll on…
UK housebuilder Vistry has issued its third profit warning in three months, in a year-end blow to the construction company that sent its shares to a two-year low. The business, which was relegated from the FTSE 100 share index on Monday, now expects annual adjusted pre-tax profit of just £250m, down from previous guidance of…
A Russian cargo ship, Ursa Major, has sunk in the Mediterranean between Spain and Algeria after an explosion in the engine room, Russia’s foreign ministry has confirmed. It said 14 members of the crew were rescued and taken to the Spanish port of Cartagena but two others were missing. Ursa Major left port in St…
Play video content TMZ.com Tony Rock says his brother Chris kills the gift-giving game every Christmas … and, even makes up for the subpar presents their less successful brothers give them. We caught up with the comedian at LAX Wednesday … and, we had to ask him how Christmas works between the seven Rock siblings…
Play video content TMZSports.com Struggling to come up with food ideas for Beyoncé‘s Christmas Day halftime show? Fear not … celeb chef Andrew Zimmern is offering up some snack hacks to help you crush it at the Dec. 25 party!! The host of “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern” tells TMZ Sports … the real key…
Brazilian authorities have halted the construction of a factory for Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD, saying workers lived in conditions comparable to “slavery”. More than 160 workers have been rescued in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia, according to a statement from the Public Labour Prosecutor’s Office (MPT). They were allegedly put in a “degrading”…
