The UPS Store tried to joke about shredding children's letters to Santa and it backfired badly..

At Christmas time it's very easy to become cynical and fatigued, effectively forgetting what the true meaning of the season is. That appears to be what happened to the social media manager of The UPS Store on Sunday who put out a rather un-festive tweet about children sending letters to the North Pole.

Gladys West the 87-year-old mathematician who helped design GPS technology.

Almost everyone knows what the Global Positioning System (GPS) is and how it has changed the way people navigate the world. Incorporated into several devices such as cars and cell phones, as well as, social media, this technological system allows accurate determination of geographical locations which makes navigation easier as compared to the past. Yet, not everyone knows about Gladys West and the pivotal role she played in birthing the GPS.

Iddris Sandu at just 21,is the tech genius behind Uber, Instagram and Snapchat!

When Iddris Sandu was in high school, he developed a mobile software that would later gain the attention of former U.S. president Barack Obama and land him at the White House, where he received the honorary presidential scholar award. He was only 16 years old.

CHUNKY MONKEY Muscle-bound chimp ‘four times stronger than humans’ shows why we pray Planet of the Apes NEVER happens

These terrifying images of muscle-bound chimp show why we should all pray the apes don't ever try to take over the world. The pumped-up chimpanzees who all suffer from the hair-loss condition alopecia show just how ripped the burly beasts actually are.

Twelve PRACTICAL ways to help the homeless this Christmas and New Year.

THE HOMELESS AND housing crisis in Ireland has continued to worsen and deepen since Christmas last year. Emergency accommodation figures for October found that there are now collectively 9,724 people living in emergency accommodation across Ireland. 

Watchdog bans 'harmful' gender stereotypes in adverts.

The UK's advertising watchdog has said it will ban "gender stereotypes that are likely to cause harm or serious or widespread offence".The Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) said harmful stereotypes in adverts "contribute to how people see themselves and their role in society", and can hold some people back. The ban will cover men struggling with household chores or girls being less academic than boys. The rules come into force in June 2019.

How Kunwar Bai Yadav a 105-year-old ended open defecation in her village.

Dhamtari became the first district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh to be declared free from open defecation. And the credit for that is being given to Kunwar Bai Yadav, a woman who claims to be 105 and sold her only assets a few goats to build a toilet at home.

Mum finds missing son after spotting him in Bugzy Malone video.

The neighbourhood, the crew, the expensive car arguably all key ingredients in a grime video, however, Bugzy Malone has revealed his visuals helped reunite a family.

India girl took her dad to the police over a toilet!

A seven-year-old Indian girl went to the police after her father broke his promise to build her a toilet. Hanifa Zaara told the police in a letter that her father had "cheated" her and should, therefore, be arrested. She said that she was "ashamed" to defecate outside.

London schools teach self-defence and first aid to protect pupils from knife crime.

Schools and colleges are introducing self-defence and first aid classes to protect their pupils from harm as a knife crime epidemic seizes the capital. But headteachers’ efforts to make children feel safe could be undermined unless extra resources are secured, a school leaders’ union has said. The Ofsted chief will also insist this week that schools cannot tackle the recent rise in knife crime among young people on their own.