As Japan is not a Christian country, Christmas isn't a national holiday there, and the religious part of the festival is not celebrated except by the country's small Christian minority (who... (read more)

There is a very clear answer to this question, which is: Nobody. It's very easy to mistake possessiveness for love, and some people even begin by enjoying this kind of relationship because it can be very intense, and after all everyone likes to feel wanted.... (read more)

He is going to start playing again on 27 December 2012 - so, just a week from today - so obviously he is a lot better, but he has been off the sport for 7 months and has said that he is rather nervous about his first event after so long. According to... (read more)

That rather depends on the business. In some businesses, especially entertainment related, a lot depends on the owner having a public presence, and building up followers on Twitter, having a lively Facebook presence etc, as well as probably blogging actively... (read more)

Spreebooks expire in the October of the following year after they were issued. So if you have a 2011-12 Spreebook it expired on 1 October 2012 and if you have a 2012-13 one it will be valid until 1 October 2013. You can find this and other information... (read more)

He scored 34 goals between January and May 2012 in the second half of the 2012-2012 season - you can find the details here starting with the last. He has since scored another... (read more)

This idea seems to go back to the 1990s, though the word 'hip' to describe someone is a lot older than that and seems to have come out of the music scene in the late 1940s or even the jazz scene in the 1920s. The word hipster started being used in the... (read more)

Generally, people born in this year are considered to be intelligent and aware, often ambitious and interested in possessions, cunning and sometimes devious.In the Chinese horoscope, though, the element you were born in is also considered to be important,... (read more)

Change their character, do you mean? That's a very difficult question ... But it is sure that people can change what they do and how they react to events, and if you change your behaviour it does eventually have an effect on your character. For example:... (read more)

Jamie Oliver owns several restaurant groups. The most famous is probably Fifteen, the restaurant in London that he opened and staffed, at least to begin with, entirely from young people who had dropped out of education and had no jobs. This was so successful... (read more)

On 8 December 2012 it was announced that the first ever 'European Olympics' will be held in the city of Baku, the capital... (read more)

Gravitational waves are best decribed as ripples in space-time. If you think about a boat travelling through the water, its movement will leave ripples or waves behind.... (read more)

It's probably the way it lets you use your imagination and encourages creativity. A bit like the voiceover says in one of the Minecraft ads: No one can tell you what you can and can't do. It's also unusual in having two very different modes; there... (read more)

There are many songs that could claim this title. In fact you can get an album of Britpop... (read more)

He speaks some French, but is not very fluent apparently. French was one of... (read more)

The effects were mainly created by Rhythm and Hues Studios, an international company based in California but with offices in India and elsewhere. The effects for this film were largely made from branches in India,... (read more)

The main thing is to avoid Holy Week (the week before Easter, which varies from year to year) as everything gets booked up, prices rise and places become very crowded. Otherwise, you can have an enjoyable visit at any time. The dry season, during the... (read more)

If you mean the 21 December 'end of the world' rumour, this comes from a prediction supposedly in the ancient Mayan (mesoamerican) calendar. There was some uncertainty about the exact date, and also about whether it predicted the end of the world or just... (read more)

If you are in the UK it is no longer possible to study alternative medicine at a public university. In 2012 the last such courses were shut down, partly due to lack of students and partly due to increased scrutiny of the actual content of the courses,... (read more)

One film for which she received a good deal of praise, and which was also regarded by both critics and audiences as a good movie, was Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion. The film was released in 2006 and Altman died soon after; it is about the cast... (read more)