Football matches played during the Christmas truce of World War I could be recreated for next year's centenary celebrations.
It's an old-world Christmas of heartfelt caroling and wooden toys, where every gift is crafted by hand and Santa hasn't outsourced his workshop to China.
With Wii U devices all but guaranteed to be sold out at retailers around the world this Christmas, some buyers immediately put their new consoles on Ebay.
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Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas, which marks the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem.
We invite people from all over the world to celebrate Christmas with us.
Former Sea Org members report that Miscavige receives elaborate birthday and Christmas gifts from Scientology groups around the world.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir displayed in Seattle, Washington.
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And found that Guinness is saying that the world record for largest number of Christmas carolers in one place was set by an organized effort in South Korea in 2010.
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Of course, all the Caribiana owners in the world would make up a pretty modest Christmas card list.
But the atmosphere is too rich for the pallid plot: Jack Skellington, the bony master of ceremonies in Halloweentown, discovers the spirit of Christmas and tries to import it into his ghoulish world.
Christmas means different foods, carols and customs around the world, but the spirit of the season stays the same.
The Urbi et Orbi, which means "to the city and the world", is a customary part of Christmas for Roman Catholics.
Optimists in both camps still talked about how they would reach out to the other side when it was all over, like the World War I infantrymen who played soccer on Christmas Day before going back to their trenches to try to kill each other again.
It's not about the child or Santa or Christmas or anything, but the parents' idea of a world they cannot make work for them.
The Curry's and PC World owner is due to unveil sales data from the Christmas period, when rival Comet collapsed.
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Christmas is a good time for us to recognize that though the world generates catastrophes, but it also has been given what JRR Tolkien called eucastrophes.
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WHO's Essential Drugs Programme (a worthy attempt to work out a minimum list of the drugs that should be available in every country in the world), describes the organisation as being like a Christmas tree on whose branches new projects are hung at random, frequently without regard to what is there already.
Operation Christmas Child demonstrates love in a tangible way to needy children around the world through delivering shoeboxes filled with toys, toothbrushes, crayons and candy.
Come January, as soon as the Christmas trees are taken down and the winter sales flood the shops, the world of business starts thinking about the World Economic Forum -- better known as Davos.
Since the World Championships I have been just chilling and enjoying being lazy and as Christmas is coming, it is a great excuse to party a little!
Historically, gold often rises during the time frame from late summer into Christmas or early in the New Year due to gift-giving holidays around the world, starting with Indian celebrations in autumn.
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For centuries, the message of Christmas -- of peace and goodwill to all -- has guided millions of people around the world through good times but also through bad times.
The chapel at King's College is the venue for the Christmas Eve service, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, which is broadcast to millions around the world.
Families will also benefit from being able to rent the latest Hollywood 3D movies through LG's 3D World, such as Brave, plus favourites such as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and G-Force.
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In 1984, Bob Geldof brought together a number of the world's most famous artists as Band Aid to record the song Do They Know It's Christmas?
Meanwhile commanders make sure the Christmas boxes are ready to take out to the units outside the base, a tradition begun by Queen Mary during World War I to raise the troops' morale in the trenches.
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