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A 60-year-old woman has been trampled to death by a surging crowd at a Christmas giveaway in northern Peru.

Holiday travelers battled slick, icy roads and flight cancellations and delays on Wednesday as a major winter storm began to spread across much of the nation's midsection - and the worst of the weather was still expected to come.

Necklaces and Christmas ornaments made from dime-sized pieces of reindeer droppings have earned a Bloomington, Ill., zoo nearly $21,000 this holiday season.

A bomb targeting a church in northern Iraq killed two men and damaged the historic building Wednesday, a day before Christmas Eve services that will be heavily guarded for fear of more attacks on the country's Christian minority.

Two women died and another 47 people were injured after a coach overturned in treacherous icy conditions during what was one of the coldest nights of the year.

Holiday travelers scrambled to adjust their plans Tuesday as a fast-moving snowstorm threatened to bring long delays along with a white Christmas for millions of people throughout the West and Midwest.

Some last-minute holiday shoppers are facing disappointment. Stores are running out of key holiday items - and not just Zhu Zhu pets, those robotic hamsters that have been hard to find since before Thanksgiving.

Sonoma County has ordered officials to remove angels, stars and other religious symbols from Christmas trees in county buildings over concerns they violate the Constitution.

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I was searching in my work space this morning and discovered some ornaments from previous holiday seasons. I enjoy holiday decorating with herbs because it is both simple, yet oh so fragrant. Hopefully, I will get a chance to make a garland with these cinnamon spice ornaments, stars, hearts and birds and use a piece of fishing line, a needle and thread dried bay leaves between the cinnamon spice ornaments to adorn our mantle.

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Just in time for Christmas, archaeologists on Monday unveiled what may have been the home of one of Jesus' childhood neighbors.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama got into the Christmas spirit on Monday, stopping by a children's club to read a story and deliver some cookies, with the US capital cloaked in a deep snow.

We're only days away from Christmas and for many people that means a big family meal, Christmas cookies, homemade fudge and more holiday goodies.

When it comes to festive traditions, Christmas crackers can often disappoint. Bad jokes, flimsy paper hats and useless gifts have long been associated with the yuletide treats.

Christmas came early for children in Wigan's hospitals and schools when sporting stars from the world of soccer and rugby dropped in for a visit.

Christmas is nearly upon us, and you might be thinking about decorating your site for the holidays.

To Steven Walls, it's beginning to look nothing like Christmas, anywhere he goes.

While more people make the switch to energy-efficient lights for their holiday decorations, Walls this year insisted on decorating with the old-style, torpedo-shaped Christmas lights his family has put up for years. But it was no easy feat: To replace the half-dozen or so bulbs that burned out last year, Walls had to visit eight stores before he found any.

Zoo animals have celebrated Christmas early in Leicestershire, breaking into their presents. Chimpanzees in Twycross Zoo tucked into nuts and seeds wrapped up in wrapping paper in their enclosures.

A Russian rocket blasted off from a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan lighting up the frigid Central Asian steppe Monday, shuttling an American, a Russian and a Japanese to the International Space Station.

Freezing weather and the economic downturn failed to deter Christmas shoppers today as the nation went on a spending frenzy on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.