The tradition of putting up an evergreen tree, or "yolka," to celebrate New Year's dates to the beginning of the former ...

TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration ...

FOX 9's Garden Guy Dale K shares some tips for ways to repurpose your Christmas tree.

TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration. The first Christmas trees in Russia appeared during a period that ...

Vilnius, Lithuania, the country’s capital, was named European Christmas Capital 2025 by the Christmas Cities Network. This ...

A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are exploiting preexisting divisions to advance their own aims, experts say.

Chief Kate Day. By KATE DAY View in your browser Dear readers, Happy new year! I hope you all managed to have a restful, joyful ...

A zoo is asking people to drop off their old Christmas trees so they can be used as "enrichment" for the animals. Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in north Somerset has accepted about 15,000 trees over the past ...

A view of the scene after an Azerbaijan Airlines flight with 67 people on board, traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia's Chechnya region, crashed near the Kazakh Caspian ...

Nearly 200 Royal Navy sailors were recalled on Christmas Day so they could be deployed to shadow Russian warships spotted in the North Sea and English Channel. The crew of frigate HMS Somerset set ...

HMS Somerset maintaining watch on Russian corvette RFS Soobrazitelny,. which remained in international waters until December 31 when Somerset finished shadowing them (Royal Navy/PA) Nearly 200 ...

In Derbyshire, Erewash Borough Council is urging people to leave their Christmas trees at two drop-off zones to be recycled.