While we count down the days until Christmas and the national groanathon that is cheap crackers over turkey and all the trimmings, children everywhere are already dispensing terrible humour online. Strangely, however, they're often genuinely funny.

A lemur named after the fictional character Christian Grey from the best-selling book Fifty Shades Of Grey has met a love interest.

Find out what's causing a buzz in 12 different cities with Twitter's latest location filters. Simon Usborne takes the nation's tweeting temperature

Artist Lydia Leith continues her humorous line in vomit vessels in celebration of the new addition to the Windsor family

Atheists could be welcomed into the Scout movement for the first time in 105 years, the association has said.

...or 3D? We're not quite sure what dimension origami exists in

Oliver Laric has been awarded the £60,000 commission for 2012

This Friday is Black Friday in the States, the day after Thanksgiving, which marks the traditional start to the Christmas shopping season with massive discounts to lure shoppers. Most years it turns nasty, though. In 2011 it was marred by shootings and pepper-sprayings (one started over a tussle for a waffle iron) as bargain-hunters stampeded into stores across America.

Hastings Pier, the seaside attraction that became an unlikely musical mecca in the 1960s by hosting performers from the Rolling Stones to The Who, is to be restored following an £11m Lottery grant.

Roads are often named after famous residents. Usually it is an honour bestowed on the most distinguished in order to give them immortality, ranging from streets bearing the moniker of Queen Victoria to that paying tribute to Alan Turing.

The number of Britons living abroad increases each year. But it's not all sun, sea and tax havens. Charlotte Philby talks to expats living in Dubai, Barcelona and even Afghanistan.

Paul Gallen 26, from Belfast, was crowned the 41st national Scrabble champion in west London today. In the final he scored 71 points for "neonates" – meaning a newborn child or mammal – which helped give him an unassailable lead over Wale Fashina, 43, from Liverpool.

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Traditional festive stamps designed by Axel Scheffler, illustrator of children's book The Gruffalo, have been unveiled by the Royal Mail.

Say the words eggs and flour to the average householder and a fair proportion will doubtless respond, "Bake Off!" But mention those cakey basics on 31 October and they might equally induce feelings of dread. Eggs plus flour? That's a recipe for but one thing: a surprisingly hard-to-clean front door thanks to the dastardly menace of trick-or-treaters.