FILE - United States' Mikaela Shiffrin poses with Santa Claus as she celebrates on the podium after winning an alpine ski, ...

Pope Leo XIV, during his first Christmas Day homily, has remembered the people of Gaza exposed to harsh weather.

A bomb has exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five people.

Three Palestinians have been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a Christmas tree and damaging a Nativity scene at a Catholic Church in the West Bank city of Jenin.