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I have had many big family Christmases and, no question, they can be wonderful. But throughout my 20s I often chose to do Christmas on my own Christmas on one's own has a bad reputation, for reasons I understand but will...

The ruling was a procedural step but an important one, paving the way for the Supreme Court to review the case.

The US president says the world "wants peace, not death", as the UN acts over ballistic missile tests.

Matt Murphy, 83, intends to leave his house to his carer Michael O'Sullivan, 58, but it would have left him with a €50,000 tax bill Two Irish men have married in Dublin to avoid paying €50,000 inheritance tax on a ho...

The decision is likely to inflame tensions with the Kremlin.        

Put that in your stockings and smoke it. An elderly couple was arrested by police during a traffic stop for possessing about 60 pounds of marijuana and multiple containers of THC that were allegedly intended to be holida...

Gustavo Arellano on the Mexican-American tradition of making tamales for the holidays.

The dad of a missing 12-year-old girl made a heart-wrenching plea for her safe return after a series of alarming messages were sent from her Instagram account. Lydia Ramirez was last seen Thursday afternoon entering an u...

Tanni Grey-Thompson says she could not board a train after a passenger said there was "no room".

A former Afghan refugee faces 18 counts of attempted murder after the incident in Flinders Street.

The Thomas fire earned its place in history Friday when it reached 273,400 acres in its 19-day run from Santa Paula north toward Santa Barbara.        

The U.N. General Assembly has decided to mark the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth by holding a high-level meeting focusing on world peace ahead of the annual gathering of …

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed a former head of the U.S. Agency for International Development run the U.N. children's agency UNICEF. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced the appointment of �...

An ex-Marine cited President Trump's Jerusalem decision as one of the reasons behind a foiled ISIS-inspired Christmas attack in San Francisco.        

This is the dramatic moment a jumped from an eight-story building that had been engulfed by fire. But the man’s fall was broken by firefighters with an air mattress after he leaped from the tower block in Jecheon, Sout...

Charles Dutoit says allegations by women of "forced physical contact" have "no basis in truth".

Supermarket announces plans to donate surplus stock to local charities, and urges other chains to follow suit Tesco is to become the only UK retailer to no longer waste food fit for human consumption. The company's chief...

NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana officials have chosen a sugar cane farm as the next home for residents of a tiny, shrinking island -- a move funded with a 2016 federal grant awarded to help relocate communities fleeing the effe...

Macedonia's left-wing prime minister says he is ready to renounce his country's claim to the legacy of Alexander the Great to help solve a 26-year-old dispute with neighboring Greece over the country's name.

The storm unleashed floods that swept away people and houses

Many expected Yemen's Houthi rebels to become vulnerable after they killed their most important ally. But weeks later, they are locking up their foes.

MOSCOW – The U.S. decision to supply weapons to Ukraine is dangerous as it will encourage Kiev to use force in eastern Ukraine, Russian officials said on Saturday. The U.S. State Department said on Friday the United St...