Christmas

Bo, the White House dog, has his very own Christmas stocking.

The Christmas tree adorning the Athens city centre will be given a 24-hour police guard after its predecessor was burned to a crisp during youth riots last year, police said on Friday.

It may not sound like “tree-hugging,” but cutting down a real tree for Christmas is actually greener than going with the artificial kind, one scientist says.

Oh Christmas tree, how puny are your branches.

No one’s really sure how the popular and somewhat bizarre Christmas tradition of lighting two-story bonfires along the banks of the Mississippi River began.