The absence of a “Santa Claus rally” does not doom the U.S. stock market in 2025. The period from Christmas through the second trading day of January marks the traditional definition of the ...

Where did Santa come from? The Middle East. The original Santa Claus was St. Nicholas, an early Christian bishop who was born in 270, in what is now Turkey. His parents died when he was young ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The white-bearded Christian saint whose acts of generosity inspired America’s secular Santa Claus figure is known worldwide — but Saint Nicholas' origin story is not.

A private school in Melbourne's south-east has been fined $140,000 following the death of one of its students, Lachlan Cook, on an overseas trip in 2019. Lachlan died in hospital from ...

Editorial boards at two publications owned by the Murdoch family denounced Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services. As Kennedy’s ...

Editorial boards at two publications owned by the Murdoch family denounced Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services. As Kennedy’s potential ...

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he is our subject here. But before we present the true story of "Santa Claus" let us list some of the other Saint Nicholases: St. Nicholas of Flüe, Patron of Switzerland; St. Nicholas of ...

The announcement came as a shock at the time, after Morgan’s decades-long career with Murdoch and his affiliated companies. Beginning his tabloid career at The Sun in 1988, he has worked on and ...

One bishop that was present, Nicholas of Myra (otherwise known as Saint Nicholas, or Santa Claus), viewed the matter thusly. He became so agitated at this attack on Christ, that he crossed the room ...

After years on the run and subject to a $1 million murder contract, the underworld’s most-hunted man has been killed – shot in the head in an ambush in the car park of suburban Melbourne hotel ...

For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much uncertainty. By Caleb KabandaRuth Maclean and Guerchom Ndebo The pygmy ...