Stores up and down the UK will be opening their doors for the traditional Boxing Day sales, following a difficult trading year for many.

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DENVER — Santa Claus set records Christmas Eve as he raced across the globe on his traditional holiday mission. Santa tracking volunteers at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado said they fielded about 102,000 telephone queries beginning early Saturday on his progress, breaking the previous mark of 80,000. Read full article > >

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NORAD Santa trackers have record holiday telling children about big man’s location

The head of the Roman Catholic Church delivers his traditional Christmas Day message to believers in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

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Pope Benedict XVI has used the traditional Christmas Eve Mass at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome to criticise the increasing commercialisation of the festival.

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VIDEO: Pope condemns ‘glitter’ of season

Standing in front of a brilliantly lighted 12-foot pine tree at her son’s home in Bowie, Gladys Boluda was all smiles, singing and dancing in step with her grandchildren to ’N Sync’s “Merry Christmas Happy Holidays.” With three days left before Christmas, the Boludas were putting the finishing touches on their annual Christmas video, a tradition that began with a family concert about a decade ago and has become a holiday essential, along with black beans and rice, yucca and other traditional Cuban fare. Read full article > >

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Bowie clan celebrates family and freedom on Christmas

The sight of Rep. Barney Frank wearing a casual t-shirt on the House floor Monday caused more than a few raised eyebrows — room temperature notwithstanding. The Massachusetts Democrat, who’s leaving Congress next year, appeared on the floor not in the traditional shirt, tie and jacket but in a thin blue top and a jacket slung over his shoulders. C-SPAN cameras captured the ensemble, which highlighted Frank’s less-than-buff torso, and the image quickly went viral, drawing snickers across the Internet. Read full article > >

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Barney Frank: What’s the House floor dress code, anyway?

While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Prepare to get stuffed – November 24 is Thanksgiving ! While this national food holiday certainly can't come as a surprise, it is definitely one worth celebrating by spending the day with those you love most and feasting on wonderful food filled with soul and tradition. You might have heard some variation on the origins of Thanksgiving in elementary school, but the holiday takes from both European and Native traditions. In Europe, folks liked to hold festivals to celebrate a good harvest and enjoy the fruits of their labor, which was quite similar to what Native Americans would do as well. Once Europeans landed in America, they brought the harvest tradition with them. Put the two together and you've got one heck of a feast! If you've got any concerns about Thanksgiving , don't sweat it! Eatocracy has you covered with our tips, recipes and answers to your most burning T-day questions. We also have offerings from around the web with these Thanksgiving recipes , sweet potato and stuffing galleries! Whether you're making the traditional turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and round of casseroles or you're deviating from your mother's 25-year-old menu, celebrate all of the people, happenstances and things you're thankful for with the best of them. From all of us at Eatocracy, have a happy, happy Thanksgiving!

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Breakfast buffet: Happy Thanksgiving!

Amazon.com, the online retailer, has long competed with bookstores; now it is starting to make deals with authors, bypassing the traditional publisher.

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Amazon Rewrites the Rules of Book Publishing

A replacement for the traditional pylon

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In pictures: Pylons of the future?

This story has been updated. Twenty-five years later, da Bears were honored at da White House President Obama welcomed the Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears team of 1985 on Friday, a quarter century after the squad won the Lombardi Trophy but never made the traditional visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Read full article > >

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Why the traditional medium can live alongside the internet

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TV’s dead, long live TV

Why the traditional medium can live alongside the internet

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TV’s dead, long live TV

Until this month, Steven C. Roche was one of Mitt Romney’s most trusted advisers, helping the former Massachusetts governor raise tens of millions of dollars in his long quest for the White House. Now Roche has jumped ship to Restore Our Future , a “super PAC” dedicated to helping Romney win the presidency by raising unlimited funds from wealthy donors and corporations. The move, first reported by the Center for Public Integrity, illustrates the rise of yet another money-raising vehicle for the 2012 elections: “candidate super PACs,” which are emerging as de facto subsidiaries of the traditional presidential campaigns. Read full article > >

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The Influence Industry: ‘Candidate super PACs’ surge ahead in the 2012 money race

Their song is one of the traditional sounds of spring but each year, fewer and fewer cuckoos are returning to Britain.

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Fewer Americans plan to launch their summer season behind the wheel of an automobile this year, but a bump in air travel plans suggests that, overall, more people intend to get away from home this summer. The high price of gas will deter some people from driving over Memorial Day weekend, the traditional kickoff of summer in the United States, according to a national survey by AAA. With the price of gas $1.06 higher than it was a year ago — at $3.91 a gallon nationwide — the number of people who told AAA they would drive more than 50 miles from home slipped by 100,000 to 30.9 million. Read full article > >

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AAA survey: Fewer car trips planned for Memorial Day weekend