With traditional masked processions, this ominous ‘half-goat, half-demon’ creature visits naughty children in central Europe at Christmas. AP As clanging chains and pounding metal drums fill the ...

Over two billion people worldwide celebrate Christmas, each infusing the holiday with various customs and rituals. While some regions eagerly await the arrival of Santa Claus, others add ...

It's always interesting to spend holidays abroad. Things catch your eye that you would probably overlook at home. This year I'm spending the holiday season in Vienna with my son who has been here for ...

Somewhere around the 300th step of the tower at St. Peter’s Church in Munich, Germany — a thigh-scorching, lung-busting corkscrew of a stairwell — I wheezed like vacuum cleaner that sucked up a ball ...