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Now that the holiday shopping frenzy is over, I hope everyone is happy with their decisions. I also hope no one bought anything from the Web site I heard about.
A reporter for the NBC television station KTUU in Anchorage, found her way into the national spotlight while taping a scene with a young reindeer named Blitzen at the Santa Claus House in North Pole.
Young women dressed in skimpy Santa outfits have distributed 50,000 free safe-sex stocking stuffers — condoms — to holiday shoppers in the city-state's glitzy tourism and shopping district.
A Thai man remained unconscious in hospital after being nearly asphyxiated by a four-metre python he was transporting on a motorbike for release in a national park.
They're impossible to slide down the chimney and pretty hard to cover with wrapping paper, but many Americans still found a way this holiday season to surprise loved ones with a very big gift — a new car.
For the 25th straight year, an anonymous donor has given at least $1,000 to the Salvation Army in Morgantown. This year the anonymous donor upped his gift to $1,501.
This thief is charmed, not armed. Police say a bank robber has used his good manners to rob thousands of dollars, usually wishing tellers a Merry Christmas before he steals the money.
As the royal family gathered to celebrate the holidays, Queen Elizabeth II was mourning the death of one of her beloved corgis, mauled by a terrier with a violent past owned by her daughter Princess Anne.
Those little silver balls that decorate holiday cookies and gingerbread homes are in short supply in California this year following a crusade by a Napa lawyer who has sued stores and retailers seeking a ban of the glittery decorations.
Germany's top-selling newspaper published nothing but good news on Christmas Eve, dropping its normal fare of crime, violence and scandal for stories about tax cuts, falling petrol prices and accelerating economic growth.
An Oklahoma family that thought they had just buried a son who killed himself in prison received a phone call after returning from the funeral from the supposed dead man who said he was very much alive.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has demanded the removal of an animal rights group's billboard advertisement depicting the Virgin Mary cradling a lifeless chicken in her arms.
