From chewy candies to wooden handicrafts, expats in Germany visiting their families back home over the holidays have plenty ...

it’s time to think about sending gifts, cards, and holiday cheer to friends and family. Here are the post-by dates to ensure your packages to and from Germany arrive by Christmas day.

Marijuana and hashish to the value of more than €500,000 ($530,000) have been found concealed in miniature Christmas trees ...

The Christ Child - seen here played by Barbara Otto in 2016 - opens Nuremberg's Christmas market The mayor ... teenage girl picked to be a Christmas gift-bringer. A member of Alternative for ...

EVERY year, a charming medieval town in southern Germany hosts the best Christmas market in Europe ... blacksmiths and glass blowers will sell handmade gifts, with demonstrations from some ...

Whether it's Papai Noel in Brazil, Santa Claus in the US and Canada, Kaled? Senelis in Lithuania or Babbo Natale in Italy, the bearded gift-bringer is modelled on a third-century bishop, Saint ...