After a long fast, Medieval Christendom typically celebrated the holiday with many days of raucous festivities ...

Twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-milking, seven swans ...

Some Christmas traditions mirror pre-Christian festivities, but some pagan influences may have been overstated.

Christmas descends on Dubai Mall and its more than 1200 shops. Credit: iStock. Improbable as it might seem, Dubai goes mad ...

Our team of experts discuss what gift each Premier League club would love to be unwrapping on Christmas morning ...

The Christmas tree is one of the most recognized holiday symbols across the world, and Mexico is no exception. Different ...

Latvia claims to hold the title of the world's first Christmas tree, as does Estonia. Several sources cite that the first written record of a Christmas tree belongs to Latvia.

Brits are set to use 300,000 tonnes of card packaging waste this holiday season. Recycling figures from 20232 would suggest that over a quarter ...

As the winter solstice approaches, bringing the shortest day and longest night, Bavaria is wrapped in nature’s quiet ...

We have snow. We have fir trees. And we have Christmas markets – which are so overwhelmingly popular that Fikardou often ends ...

NASA has warned that the massive asteroid 2024 NX1 will skim past Earth tonight - reaching its closest point at 02:56 am GMT ...

In my corner of Oxfordshire, it seems Christmas is a competitive sport. It's always easy for the truly posh to spot the ...