World leaders are taking the opportunity to reflect and deliver messages of peace and hope.
The Department of Homeland security will deport hundreds of families beginning in 2016.
Based on Iowa caucus polls, Huckabee has not even cracked the top five Republican candidates.
Foreign minister Walid Muallem made the comments during a press conference in China
The deployment of troops allowed the coalition to relieve 200 Afghan police under Taliban siege.
Measures brought in ahead of expected pilgrim boom over Yuletide period.
Three Palestinians killed in attack on Israeli soldiers and another in Qalandia camp.
Russian spy chief Alexander Bortnikov said the FSB had identified the perpetrators of the attack.
Volunteers have organised Christmas celebrations for refugee children at shelters around Germany.
There are actually two wars going on in Syria: a rebellion against Assad, and an invasion by Isis (Daesh).
Audi smashed through the side of the coffee shop and was embedded in the building.
Leaked video shows Orthodox teenagers dance with guns, knives and molotov cocktails at far-right wedding.
Bomb fears as explosion that killed airport worker Zehra Yamaç remain unclear.
Police are treating the incident as 'unexplained' as travellers suffer severe delays.
The strip has known nothing but violence for over a decade.
Southern California and Utah researchers invent computer package to solve marriage woes.
The dispatch – as a donation – is the first instalment of the mutually-agreed deal between Kabul and New Delhi.
Pro-government Movement of Azawad group says four of its fighters killed in friendly fire.
Myanmar migrants found guilty of murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller to face the death penalty .
Moscow is even ready to supply arms to Afghanistan's Islamist group, says President Putin's envoy.
UN urges Lebanon to lift work restrictions to ease 'extreme poverty' gripping over 70% of the million migrants.
President claims terror group has been reduced to a minor presence in Borno state and is incapable of major attacks.
The hack has affected only those properties that are managed by Hyatt.
Unity plan will effectively dissolve two separate governments based in Tripoli and Beida.
Declassified file shows US planned to use bombs far more powerful than the one it dropped on Hiroshima.
More than 107 people sustained injuries in the inferno at the medical facility.
The newspaper eventually withdrew the cartoon from its website on 23 December.
Dalene Bowden, from Idaho, was fired due to 'theft' and 'inaccurate transactions' after she gave a free meal away at the school where she worked.
The flight was forced to circle Oakland for four hours to burn off fuel before making its emergency landing.
The former oil tycoon and scourge of Vladimir Putin is considering escaping Russia's grasp with UK asylum application.