Norad tracking Santa's travels

Radars, satellites, cameras and jet fighters normally dedicated to detecting any threats against the US and Canada were being used today to “track” Santa Claus in his global Christmas Eve travels.

On the 50th anniversary of a tradition that began with a typographical error in a newspaper advert, soldiers at the North American Aerospace Defence Command, or Norad, in Colorado Springs said that by about 1500 GMT, Santa had been spotted near Fuji, Japan, travelling about 100 times faster than the 185mph Bullet Train.