IN FOCUS: Plenty of parents see covering up their children’s faces online as a happy medium, allowing them to share family snaps without encroaching on their privacy. But is this actually ...

These “emoji-over-face” parents are often met with confusion or criticism, accused of being overly cautious or even paranoid.

A passenger spotted smiley faces drawn on a plane's wing. The traveller, seated by the window, noticed two cheerful images sketched on the dusty flap located on the lower rear part of the aircraft ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

That means sending smiley face emoji to your younger colleagues in work emails might be making you seem passive-aggressive rather than friendly.

Watch the hilarious moment this little lad swears at his elf for drawing on his face! Jude Kavanagh woke up to his naughty elf on the shelf having drawn all over his face in bright green marker ...

Your ultimate Emoji guide to translating and ranking the most- and least-used Emoji symbols.

There are 8 new emojis coming soon to smartphones. They include an exhausted face with bags under the eyes, a root vegetable, and a shovel.

The reveal of 'Face with Bags Under Eyes' emoji sparks excitement among X users who can relate.

And one of the emojis that Gen Xs and boomers seem to love above all is the winking face. There are few messages my parents do not seek to enliven with the winking emoji.

The smirking face emoji is also seeing a decline in popularity in nearly 38% of countries. The 😱 emoji has seen a decline in use in nearly 47% of European countries seeing a decline in its use ...