Page 11 - Christmas

A brand new Christmas

Festival traditions are in a permanent state of slow flux, subject to the processes of evolution, cross-breeding, mergers and a myriad of social and economic currents

Limited-edition chocolates and classic puddings for Christmas

Pastry chefs are creating desserts to get you in the festive spirit

The only Christmas book

Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol just about at the time that the Victorians were inventing Christmas

Website charts Santa's journey around the globe

Every Christmas Eve since 1955, NORAD has been tracking Saint Nicholas's annual voyage

Goodies under the Christmas tree

As the last minutes of the holiday-shopping season approach, Ranjita Ganesan lists some traditional and offbeat gifting ideas

'Christmas Treeplomacy' and what the Arctic can teach us about goodwill geopolitics

When most people think of Santa, the first thing that comes to mind might not be unresolved claims to continental shelves and Cold War histories

If you're running a business, you might as well shut up shop for Christmas now

Send everyone home for Christmas. Nobody's working anyway, says a survey