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La caja China is a device inspired by Chinese rail workers in Cuba. And in Miami, it has become the de rigueur way to cook the traditional Noche Buena pig roast. Only in America.

For decades, Falls Church Anglican in suburban Virginia has staged a nativity concert for hundreds of people on Christmas Eve. For many, the event captures the essence and innocence of the season.

Artist Rogan Brown peers into the invisible worlds of microbes, then uses their forms as the inspiration for large paper sculptures that seem at once familiar and profoundly alien.

Quentin Tarantino's new film is helping revive a nearly obsolete extra-wide film format. Theaters are being retrofitted with old reels and lenses to screen the 70mm version of the movie.

This clerically named quaff plays a starring role in Scrooge's transformation in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Port, its key ingredient, also tells a story of English politics and class identity.

On the beaches of Lesbos, Greece, retired English professor Julie Segedy, who's from California, volunteers to help refugees coming ashore from places like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Witnesses say the victims were lining up for cooking gas ahead of the Christmas holiday when the massive fire engulfed the factory.

As water levels climbed to the highest in decades, Paraguay declared a state of emergency, and thousands fled to higher ground.

Mississippi River Valley flooding has already caused the deaths of at least 18 people in Missouri and Illinois. The water is expected to rise to an all-time high, according to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon.

A robot unveiled by Disney researchers can drive up vertical surfaces. Other machines pushing boundaries: a bot that can jump on water without sinking and a bot that flies like a bird.