News of Tuesday 26 December 2017

• Unusual Christmas Traditions From Around The World
• Photos/ Christmas puddings and Cookies
• Christmas in lake Coeur d'Alene in the northwest United States
• ‘Teachings of Jesus entail fight against ignorance’: Larijani
• Israel accelerates settlement expansion in West Bank
• Is Noah's Ark buried on a Turkish mountain? Experts claim they have 'new evidence' that suggests the Biblical ship ended up on Mount Ararat
• Slow and Steady: Japanese Inflation Creeps Toward 2% Target
• Man who delivered manure to Mnuchin compares his act to that of Jesus'
• Pakistan fruit cargo opens corridor to Russia via Iran
• Independent: US Ambassador hails $285m cut in funding for UN as 'big step in the right direction'
• Putin says Russia to keep up anti-terror fight in Syria ‘if necessary’
• Christmas gifts stolen from family home in Oxford
• Pope Francis urges world not to ignore refugees at Christmas Eve Mass
• NASA has discovered hundreds of potential new planets