Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because ...

A leafless, lifeless tree is among the most striking new emojis coming to our smartphones in the coming weeks, as part of the ...

App developers use the coding as a guide, so the new symbols published in Unicode - which also include a fingerprint ... Later this year, meanwhile, we can look forward to a bigfoot emoji, as well as ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket, named after astronaut John Glenn, from Florida's historic pad. The test flight marked a significant milestone, reaching orbit on ...

Although long considered a disease of aging, certain cancers are turning up more often in younger women, according to a new report. By Roni Caryn Rabin More Americans are surviving cancer, but the ...

A French woman has been mocked on social media after losing more than €830,000 (£700,000) to scammers posing as the Hollywood actor Brad Pitt. The 53-year-old interior designer, known only as ...

SINGAPORE: As political parties ramp up preparations for this year’s General Election, some new faces have been seen across various constituencies in the past months. Singapore must head to the ...

Wales open their Six Nations campaign against France in Paris on Friday, 31 January before travelling to face Italy in Rome eight days later. Cardiff head coach Matt Sherratt says he is unsure ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s competition watchdog has opened an investigation into Google to determine if its position in ...

Meta recently announced that its stable of social apps, which include Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, would ease content moderation policies, discontinuing its third-party fact-checking ...

SA Police confirmed to The Advertiser patrols were deployed to Morphett St on Saturday morning after reports of a protest in which a group of men were disguising their faces with ski masks.

We’ve long used pets to signal our tastes, lifestyle and even social class, but the breed of dog considered a status symbol these days is vastly different from years gone by. There’s a lot of ...