The country's largest soup kitchen is organised by the Food for Life Foundation and has been delivering thousands of hot meals to those in need every year.

The team at Euronews would like to wish you the best for the festive season.

Santa Claus has left his hometown Rovaniemi, in Lapland, Finland, and started his journey to bring Christmas cheer to people all around the globe

Watch : Elephants dressed up as Santa interact with children

Visitors and worshippers have been flocking to Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity – a cave which enshrines a site thought to be the birthplace of Jesus.

Thousands of runners dressed as Father Christmas raced through the Russian city of St Petersburg on Saturday

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Santa Claus passes cabin to cabin, visiting passengers as the train chugs along. Santa and his helpers hand out gifts to good girls and boys, while many passengers pose for photos with the train-travelling Old St. Nick

Santa Claus ditched the traditional chimney and rappelled down a high-rise tower on a downtown public square in Berlin on Sunday (December 16) to deliver gifts to all the good boys and girls.

Christmas came early for fish and sharks at an aquarium in Malta this week, when Santa Claus took a dive to hand out treats.