If you want to see the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony this year, you'll need to participate in the online lottery. The National Park Service and the National Park Foundation will host the lottery starting Wednesday, November 4 and ending November 6, 2009. The National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony is scheduled for 5pm on December 3 at the White House.

Christmas will be here soon and there are hot items on wish lists this year. Many people have a very tight budget this year, but with the help of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, many of the top electronic Christmas gifts will be less expensive to purchase. Electronics such as iPods, game systems and HD Camcorders top many 2009 Christmas lists.

Over 150 traditional or nautical-themed nativity scenes displayed in the streets, squares and churches of Grado and Barbana Island. Christmas markets spread festive season colours, perfumes and lights across Grado. Children’s parties with St Nicholas and Father Christmas. Live music, plus fireworks over the sea. Grado prepares celebrations for children and grown-ups in its atmospheric lagoon setting.

Santa will be stopping by the Kennedy Center's Roof Terrace Restaurant on the three Sundays before his yearly Christmas Eve journey.

He'll be home for Christmas. Pope Benedict XVI will, according to reports, release an album in time for the Christmas season.

Christmas has come and gone, and you've got ornament-laden pine, spruce, or whatever in your living room, dropping needles on the carpet. What do you do? You recycle it, that's what.

Thousands of Christian pilgrims have flocked to the West Bank town of Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas.

A team of advertising executives in the United Kingdom have come up with a novel approach to educating the country about the real meaning of Christmas and the Nativity of the Lord.

The trees of Christmas future may be safer from an insect pest that makes Ebenezer Scrooge's famous nightmare pale in comparison — killing millions of pine trees, according to an scheduled for the December 22 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine.

Avoid letting financial and relationship stress get in the way of Christmas, Relationship Services advised today.

This year credit-crunched Brits plan to spend 27 per cent less on Christmas decorations than last year. The festive tree will be the first thing to suffer, as a third of people (32 per cent) say they plan to reduce the size of their Christmas fir. One in twelve (8 per cent) who traditionally put up decorations say that they won’t bother to put any up at all this year.

Still can't find a Nintendo Wii? It is still the hottest-selling video game console after two years, and still hard to find, at least at the standard retail price. Your last chance for the holiday season might be Wal-Mart.com, as the world's largest retailer has been stocking up, and will offer tens of thousands of the console on its website starting Monday.