Christmas Eve

Arctic heatwave could break records

Climate scientists say these unseasonably warm weather patterns in the Arctic region are directly linked to man-made climate change.

Temperatures throughout November and December were 5C higher than average.

It follows a summer during which Arctic sea ice reached the second-lowest extent ever recorded by satellites.

Miley Cyrus premieres new festive-themed song

Cyrus spent a large part of Christmas Eve (December 24) teasing the song on her social media accounts before officially making the song available to hear later that day.

The singer recorded the song with American rock band The Flaming Lips, whose lead singer and guitarist Wayne Coyne has been documenting the process on Instagram.

The new track comes a few weeks after Cyrus starred in the bizarre and NSFW video for 'BB Talk', taken from her recent album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz.