Crowds of all ages turned up in droves for ‘Carols on the Cliffs’ in Carvoeiro on the Thursday before Christmas.

Above, Karen Loeffler and Mollye Long play traditional German Christmas songs on dulcimers during Zweite Weihnachten. – ...

WWII veteran Wilbur Myers recalls quietly singing Christmas carols with German soldiers across the river during the 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion’s 1944 Europe campaign.

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Nine of the songs inside the top 10 on the Hot 100 are Christmas smashes, with only Taylor Swift's "The Fate of Ophelia" ...

Thousands of fans of German Bundesliga club Union Berlin gathered for the traditional Christmas carol singing at their favorite team’s stadium on Tuesday night (December 23) for what they described as ...

In just 200 years, the fir tree has transformed Danish Christmas traditions, forming the basis for songs, stories, rituals ...

The embassies of the United Kingdom, Germany and France have performed the Ukrainian Christmas carol Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells) as part of a joint creative holiday greeting for Ukrainians. Source: ...

The 1914 Christmas Truce wasn’t universal, and it didn’t last, but it’s become one of war’s most retold on-screen moments: carols over the wire, a cautious walk into no man’s land, and the hangover ...

Before Christmas 1948, three U.S. Air Force pilots in Germany got a brilliant idea to help Santa Claus. Lt. Jack La Marr, of Long Island, Capt. Sherwood Drumm, of Massachusetts, ...

A decade later, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her own version in 1960, further cementing the song’s place in the popular consciousness. By the time The Ronettes released their version, the song was already ...

Some of my favourite Christmas memories are with my grandparents in Germany. I remember snow drifting past the windows while we sang traditional carols and shared slices of homemade stollen around the ...