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In a blast from the past, there are long lines already forming in cities around the world for tomorrow’s iPhone X launch. After the iPhone 8’s muted rollout in late September, the lines of people willing to wait overnight suggest massive demand for the iPhone X – despite its US$1,000-plus price tag. In Singapore, there are “hundreds” waiting for the iPhone X outside Apple’s freshly-opened store. By late afternoon, there were already overwhelming numbers, reports Channel News Asia. “You need breathing space. This will take a while. There is no point in pushing,” Apple store staffers were heard saying. Video...

There are times when a little piece of news comes in from some far flung corner of the world and it’s necessary to wonder whether one should laugh or cry about it all. So it is with this remarkable story from Venezuela. The wonders of Bolivarian Socialism are so great that governors in some parts of the country have decided to ban queuing. No, really, I promise you that I am not making this up. Here’s the news about the queuing: Governors in three Venezuelan states have banned overnight queuing amid huge and sometimes rowdy lines around shops across the...

Monday January 12, 2015 01:40 PM Last Friday, dozens of people spent the night in the surroundings of the Andrés Bello square (north Caracas) to buy food in an outdoor market organized by the Venezuelan Ministry of Food. For taking home staples such as rice, pre-cooked corn flour, milk, oil, sugar, beef or chicken, people had to wait in line for at least twelve hours. Buyers had numbers written on their arms. With fear and anger, but with the need to buy food, they were waiting there since the day before. "No matter if I am very fond of this...

Petrol shortage fears as garage queues build By David Millward, Transport Editor Last Updated: 5:19PM BST 11/06/2008 Concerns over petrol shortages are leading to queues of motorists at the country's forecourts. Lengthening queues at a petrol station in Mersyside. There were reports of lines of cars outside garages on Merseyside and in Stoke. It led to fears that Gordon Brown's plea to motorists not to panic ahead of a four day walk out by Shell's delivery drivers over the weekend could have backfired. His appeal came as drivers were bracing them for even more bad news with the head of...

An Aberdeenshire joiner has hit out after waiting nearly 24 hours to have a 3in nail removed from one of his fingers. John Milne went to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary's accident and emergency department to have the nail removed but, after becoming increasingly frustrated, he left 22 hours later with it still in his finger. It was eventually taken out in a matter of minutes by his local GP. He said the hospital told him he needed to see a plastic surgeon.