A nail technician spent 50 gruelling hours trying to comb knots out her matted extensions after not following the aftercare advice. Lissa Patterson was initially over the moon with her…

Jimmy Anderson backs ‘superhuman’ Joe Root to break Cook’s England record
After Joe Root surpassed Graham Gooch’s tally of 8,900 Test runs, Jimmy Anderson has said that he is “absolutely” backing his England captain to make it the top of the…

Alex Jones: ‘My worst job? A call centre. I said I was going to the loo and never came back’
Born in Carmarthenshire, Alex Jones, 44, began her television career at the Welsh channel S4C. Since 2010, she has presented The One Show for the BBC. She lives in London…

The $29 billion deal in 11 weeks: how Square bought Afterpay
Jack Dorsey introduced the world to expressing itself in just 140 characters as the creator of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), and his payments company, Square Inc (SQ.N), also likes getting straight…

Windows users can now manage their iCloud Passwords
If you sync your iCloud Passwords with Windows, Apple’s new, dedicated iCloud Passwords app is going to give you some much-needed new abilities. The app, which comes with the iCloud…

New app brings portraits of dead loved ones to life – but some brand it creepy
The 'deepfake' technology animates faces of dead relatives and while some consider it magical others are unnerved and have branded the concept 'creepy' Seeing an image of your lost loved…

Bayern Munich held by Borussia Mönchengladbach in opener
Bayern Munich had to work their way back from a goal down in their Bundesliga season opener on Friday as they earned a 1-1 draw at Borussia Mönchengladbach thanks to…

How to tidy up an unruly garden
Rain, wind, sun, rain, wind, sun: this summer’s varied weather has led to a lot of lank growth, which means things are flopping all over the place, or running amok.…

ADB, Citi, HSBC, Prudential hatch plan for Asian coal-fired closures
Financial firms including British insurer Prudential, lenders Citi and HSBC and BlackRock Real Assets are devising plans to speed the closure of Asia's coal-fired power plants in order to lower…

T-Mobile says unauthorized access to its data occurred, not clear if customer info involved
Following a weekend report that its servers had been breached, T-Mobile said Monday that unauthorized access to some of its data occurred, but it had not yet determined whether personal…