Holiday Season

Apple's iPhone gained ground in the US market over the holiday season and early 2013, outpacing Samsung and other smartphone makers using the Android operating system, a survey found Wednesday.

DreamWorks Animation has announced an $87 million write-down on last year's holiday season animated blockbuster "Rise of the Guardians."

Canada's trade deficit was halved to Can$901 million (US$898 million) in December, as a big drop in imports outweighed the impact of fewer exports, a government agency said Friday.

A Somali-US man was found guilty of plotting to blow up a crowded US Christmas tree ceremony attended by thousands, despite his claims that he was trapped by an FBI sting operation.

A Somali-American was found guilty Thursday over an alleged plot to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in the northwestern US state of Oregon more than two years ago.

The jury in the trial of a Somali-American accused of plotting to blow up a Christmas tree ceremony retired to consider its verdict after lawyers made closing arguments.

The Japanese director of the acclaimed World War II prison camp drama "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence", Nagisa Oshima, died Tuesday, his son said. He was 80.

FBI tactics in investigating a Somali-American accused of plotting to blow up a US Christmas tree lighting ceremony took center stage, as undercover agents began testifying.

FBI tactics in investigating a Somali-American accused of plotting to blow up a US Christmas tree lighting ceremony took center stage, as undercover agents began testifying.

Two men appeared in court Friday charged with the murder of a church organist who was attacked as he walked to midnight mass on Christmas Eve.

Personal computer sales slipped at the end of last year, despite the holiday shopping season and the release of new Windows operating software for machines, a leading industry tracker reported.

Shares in British high street retailer Marks & Spencer fell on Thursday, but clawed back earlier heavy losses, as investors fretted over sliding sales in the key Christmas holiday trading period.

Eurozone and EU retail sales edged up in November after a sharp fall in October as consumer confidence firmed slightly ahead of the Christmas holiday season, official data showed on Tuesday.

A surge in online Christmas shopping prevented a slump in retail sales in December, the lobby group British Retail Consortium (BRC) said Tuesday.

A surge in online Christmas shopping prevented a slump in retail sales in December, the lobby group British Retail Consortium (BRC) said Tuesday.

Having brought joy to Lithuanian families over the holidays, Christmas trees will now warm them through the rest of winter after being converted into biofuel.

Industry tracker comScore on Thursday reported that US shoppers spent a total of $42.3 billion online during the year-end holiday season -- a 14 percent jump from the same period in 2011.

New claims for US unemployment insurance benefits rose slightly last week during the year-end holiday season, official data released Thursday showed.

Five prison officers were injured during violence which flared up at the Morton Hall immigration removal centre on Christmas Eve, the prison staff union revealed Wednesday.

Relatives of victims massacred by a gunman in a Colorado movie theater criticized Wednesday an invitation to its re-opening as a "ridiculously offensive" publicity ploy.