Alright, lovely people! You know it's Christmas when the scent of cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those warm, festive spices hits you — and there's no better way to get that Christmassy vibe than with a cracking mince pie. So what is the ultimate pie for you?

Christmas is coming and Europe is starting to close-down leading to an ongoing debate over work-life balance. Europeans, who enjoy some of the most generous vacation allowances in the world, report feeling just as vacation-deprived as Americans, who typically take far fewer days off. How can it be that two such different systems yield similar frustrations?

In a dramatic turn of events, President-elect Donald Trump has intervened in congressional negotiations, urging Republicans to reject a bipartisan stopgap spending bill designed to prevent a government shutdown, throwing Washington into turmoil, as lawmakers scramble to find a solution before the current funding expires on Saturday.

Imagine waking up to find that half the road signs in your city have vanished overnight. You try to get to work, to the store, or even back home, but the paths you once knew by heart are confusing now—fragmented, disconnected. You stop to ask for help, but no one really seems to understand what you're going through, and worse still, there are no clear systems in place to guide you.

Behind Manchester City’s perfectly calibrated passes and the controlled chaos orchestrated by Pep Guardiola, there’s another system—one that’s perhaps even more meticulously crafted, and that's the business of an international football network.

Bottlenecks. They slow things down, restrict movement, and tend to cause frustration. In our digital age, the latest bottleneck isn’t from a traffic jam of data, but from something far more subtle: regulation.

In the fight for survival, Ukraine has proven that the front line isn’t where the battle always ends. Sometimes, it rolls silently on two wheels, deep into the heart of Moscow.

Mercedes-Benz’s latest move in Kuppenheim, Germany, is more than a corporate milestone—it’s a signal of where smart money might flow in the next decade. In this quiet town in the Black Forest, the luxury automaker has unveiled a state-of-the-art battery recycling plant that could reshape the economics of electric vehicle (EV) production.