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Boxing Day: most Americans know it as the day after Christmas, but what is it exactly, and where did it come from?

Boxing Day 2011 boasts huge sales from some of the biggest brands in the UK, with up to 80 percent slashed off original prices.

The star of the recently concluded Harry Potter series of films, Emma Watson is now the new face of cosmetic giants Lancôme's new make-up line.

Isobel Narayan, teen-aged daughter of a judge was found dead in her home. The 16-year-old was found by her parents in the bedroom of her family's £400,000 four-bedroom home in Didsbury, Greater Manchester, last Sunday, reports Mirror. The cause of the death is not known and the circumstances also do not seem to be suspicious. However, tests are being carried out to see if her life has been claimed by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS).

As Prince Philip recovers from emergency heart surgery this Christmas, it's unsurprising that Queen's Elizabeth II's 59th annual holiday message is a poignant one of family, strength and community spirit. Read a full text of her Christmas message, watch her video here, and find links to all her Christmas broadcasts since 1952.

A 1941 fruit-cake was sold to a lucky online bidder in Arizona for $525 on Thursday, the proceeds of which will be sent to the homeless in the region. Made 70-years ago by The Kroger Co, the cake returned unopened back to the company store in the year 1971.

Most ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime enthusiasts will get their hands on the tablet in 2012, but customers who order the 32GB Amethyst Gray version from Best Buy could get it as early as Monday, according to Android Police.

A compilation of all things Dark Knight Rises - from leaked scripts, to rumors, to trailers, to that elusive six-minute prologue.

An emotional Melanie Amaro won the TV singing contest The X Factor on Thursday, earning a $5 million recording contract and closing the first U.S. season of the heavily hyped Fox show.

Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Phillip has been taken to Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, UK after chest pains caused him to call short the royal family's Christmas festivities at Sandringham Estate. The 90-year-old royal consort is getting precautionary tests, but old 2007 rumors of a hidden heart condition are already resurfacing.

Tim Tebow's relationship status remains a mystery. Does he have a girlfriend? Does he not? One lovely lady he has been linked to is Lindsey Vonn, Olympic skier. Vonn recently told TMZ I'm not opposed to dating him.

Mike Bell likens his new job at Intel Corp to piloting a glider.

Most Asus Transformer Prime enthusiasts won't get their hands the Eee Pad tablet until 2012, but a U.S rep for the company told ZD Net that the first batch of pre-orders will be delivered in time for Christmas.

With Christmas two days away, U.S. customers of collapsed broker-dealer MF Global with funds still tied up in the rubble of the company bankruptcy just got a nasty present: a statement by the trustee fighting on their behalf telling them how accountants in London are making it even harder for them to get their money back.

Spurs remain in third place with the draw.

In 2012, buzzwords will bow to the British royals with Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, forecast as the most-used word in the media, according to a group that surveys the English language.

It is not clear where Wati has been all these years or what she had been doing to survive.

A creepy cloud formation was reportedly photographed today hovering over England and users on the forum site Reddit began spreading the picture.

Firefox Add-on DeSopa developer Tamer Rizk created a simple way to defeat SOPA--the Stop Online Piracy Act. Today we present an exclusive interview with him on his motivation, the troubles it may case and the ways tactics to defeat Internet Freedom will fail.

Britain, which closed its embassy in Tehran last month after it was ransacked by protesters, said on Thursday that Iranian authorities had blocked its website aimed at Iran.

Weakening economies and falling prices of rival smartphones are hurting sales of Apple iPhones across Europe, data from research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech showed on Thursday.