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United Kingdom

Watch: Queen calls for peace and goodwill as Brexit divisions endure

The UK's 92-year-old monarch highlighted the importance of people who held opposing views being respectful to each other.

World News

Don't like Christmas? A psychologist explains how to cope

Does Christmas make you sad, or even angry? Fernando Azor, a psychologist from GabinetedePsicología.com, explains how to cope with the festive period.

USA

'You still believe in Santa? Because at 7, it's marginal, right?'

The little girl had called NORAD on Christmas Eve to know where Santa was on his gift-delivery round.

Hungary

Souped-up: Hot meals and food packages help Hungary's poor

The country's largest soup kitchen is organised by the Food for Life Foundation and has been delivering thousands of hot meals to those in need every year.

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Vatican

Pope Francis decries 'insatiable greed' of today’s consumerism

Pope Francis decries 'insatiable greed' of today’s consumerism in Christmas Eve Mass

United Kingdom

Buyers rush to London Christmas Eve market auction for premium meats

Fresh meat was selling like hot cakes at Smithfield Market's Christmas Eve public auction on Monday, with auctioneers running up and down makeshift catwalks and handing over turkeys and huge cuts of beef and pork in return for 20-pound notes

Gaza

Gaza's tiny Orthodox Christian minority celebrate Christmas

With the ongoing Israeli siege on the enclave, Palestinians in Gaza are prohibited from uniting with family members and visiting Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

France

Watch: Happy Christmas from everyone at Euronews!

The team at Euronews would like to wish you the best for the festive season.

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Watch Santa’s depart to his annual journey around the world

Santa Claus has left his hometown Rovaniemi, in Lapland, Finland, and started his journey to bring Christmas cheer to people all around the globe

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Watch: elephants dressed up as Santa interact with children

Watch : Elephants dressed up as Santa interact with children

West Bank

Bethlehem enjoys busiest Christmas season on record

Visitors and worshippers have been flocking to Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity – a cave which enshrines a site thought to be the birthplace of Jesus.

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Thousands join annual Santa run in St Petersburg

Thousands of runners dressed as Father Christmas raced through the Russian city of St Petersburg on Saturday

World

Should the song 'Baby It's Cold Outside' be banned? | Raw Politics

The panel on Raw Politics discusses whether the lyrics are sinister or not.

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Illuminated train chugs through Bogota bringing Christmas cheer

Santa Claus passes cabin to cabin, visiting passengers as the train chugs along. Santa and his helpers hand out gifts to good girls and boys, while many passengers pose for photos with the train-travelling Old St. Nick

Living

The best Champagnes for your Christmas dinner

Champagne isn’t just for a celebratory glass: it pairs beautifully with a Christmas feast

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Santa rappels down skyscraper delivering gifts to Berlin children

Santa Claus ditched the traditional chimney and rappelled down a high-rise tower on a downtown public square in Berlin on Sunday (December 16) to deliver gifts to all the good boys and girls.

United Kingdom

British royal family releases Christmas cards

British royal family releases Christmas cards

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Father Christmas swims with sharks at Malta aquarium

Christmas came early for fish and sharks at an aquarium in Malta this week, when Santa Claus took a dive to hand out treats.

Germany

Secret samaritan Santa donates gold bars to local German nonprofits

One unidentified donor has trumped all other secret Santa gifts this Christmas after donating bars of gold to not-for-profit organisations in a German seaside town

USA

California man treats his neighbours to a dazzling Chistmas

Each night, Mike Ziemkowski greets visitors and welcomes them to his Christmas garden with refreshments and cookies.