Thanksgiving

Retail Therapy > Love: What is Singles’ Day in China and how has it turned into the world’s largest shopping festival?

Singles’ Day was started by four male students at a Chinese university to celebrate singlehood in the 1990s. In 2009, e-commerce giant Alibaba started offering major discounts on 11 November and now it has snowballed into a mega-shopping bonanza, bigger than America’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Black Friday 2021: Here's all you need to know about mega shopping event

Black Friday is associated with post-Thanksgiving and pre-Christmas shopping. It is a sales weekend in which both online and offline stores mark the day by offering attractive discounts to customers

Thanksgiving 2021: All you need to know about celebrations, significance of popular holiday festival

The day is considered one of the busiest holidays in the US and also marks the beginning of the holiday season.

Hospital staff 'truly exhausted,' says Texas doctor on viral photo of him hugging elderly COVID-19 patient

'My staff is very tired. My nurses break down because they are so overwhelmed with the number of cases we're getting that they are truly exhausted,' said Joseph Varon, the chief of staff at United Memorial after a photo of him on Thanksgiving went viral

Friends star Courtney Cox recreates Monica Geller's Turkey head dance for Thanksgiving

"Since I'm the symbol of Thanksgiving, here you go," said Courtney Cox while recreating the famed Friends act for Thanksgiving

In Thanksgiving address, Joe Biden says citizens at war against COVID-19 and 'not each other'

President-elect Biden said citizens should forego high-risk holiday traditions as cases of the virus continue to surge in the US, which, with over 2,62,100 deaths, is the world's worst-hit nation

Man sculpts Tesla's new Cybertruck out of mashed potatoes; Twitter calls him 'Elon Mash'

Milano, who has a background in art and architectural history told the publication that that the most difficult part of the carving the Cybertruck was getting the geometric lines in proportion, and achieving the illusion that it is sitting on four wheels.

Eleven injured in shooting at New Orleans' historic French Quarter; no arrests, investigation on, say police

Eleven people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in New Orleans' French Quarter, a popular tourist hub, US police said, adding that two of the victims were in a critical condition.

On surprise Afghanistan visit, Donald Trump meets US troops and claims to have reopened talks with Taliban

President Donald Trump paid an unannounced Thanksgiving visit to US troops in Afghanistan on Thursday and declared that he had reopened peace negotiations with the Taliban less than three months after scuttling talks in hopes of ending 18 years of war

Thanksgiving 2019: New York commuters enjoy early festive meal on a subway car; video goes viral

Stand-up comedian Jodell “Joe Show” Lewis tells the New York Post he organized the Thanksgiving dinner to “bring a little excitement to commuters” and feed any New Yorkers who might be hungry.