The annual festival, whose name in the Turkana language means “welcoming back home,” has grown into one of the country’s most significant cultural events. It brings together elders, youth, artists, ...

Public servants will have a weeklong New Year holiday after Malacañang suspended government work on 29 December 2025 and 2 January 2026. With authority from President Ferdinand Marcos, Acting ...

Christmas in America has long been about receiving presents from Santa for being nice, or at worst, getting a lump of coal for being naughty. Though jolly St. Nicholas has long been a staple, the ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. The tides move so quickly on the island of Chiloé that they are part ...

(WHTM) — Everybody knows Santa Claus is the most popular Christmas figure, but there is another, more intimidating gift-giver embedded in Pennsylvania Christmas lore who threatened to beat misbehaving ...

The act of breathing has been central to life on Earth since the beginning, and the average human will take more than 600 million breaths in a single lifetime. But there’s a specific group of humans—a ...

The singer and son of Andrea Bocelli brings his pop classical sound to the stage with songs such as “Falling in Love” and “Love Like This.” ...