Online shops are suffering the same fate as the high street with fewer customers spending money. US net measurement firm comScore found that online shopping was in decline for the first time since it began measuring it in 2001. Online shoppers in the US spent $8.2bn (£5.3bn) in November, down 4% on last year's figures. ComScore forecast flat growth for the upcoming Christmas shopping... [read more]

  (CNN) -- Things didn't go quite according to plan for astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper during her spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday. First, a grease gun inside her tool bag leaked, coating everything inside with a film of lubricant. While she was trying to clean it up in the absence of gravity, the whole bag floated away. Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen... [read more]