Sent home from a Hungarian hospital with an open jaw fracture, a man underwent life-saving surgery just hours later in Austria.

The notoriously icy, bumpy, dark, and unforgiving Stelvio track will be home to men’s Olympic alpine events at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games. It is revered as one of the toughest in the world ...

Known among people of Mexican descent in the U.S. as ‘La Candelaria,’ the traditional Feb. 2 feast bids farewell to the Christmas season not with a whimper, but with a bang.

A yearslong effort to convince Washington of religious persecution is shifting foreign policy toward the West African nation, ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. This was the year I finally made good on a five-year-old promise to ...

The Vail Valley tends to look like a winter wonderland most of the ski season, but that goes up a notch during the holidays thanks to BloomingVails, a holiday decorating company that has been a leader ...

BUDAPEST -- After a week aboard the Viking Gullveig on the Danube and eating our way through German and Austrian Christmas markets, we had arrived in the Paris of the East: Budapest. Here, I broke off ...

It was just a simple poem written by a village priest. However, when the church organist composed a melody for it, “Silent Night” became a song that would touch the world. The priest, Josef Mohr, and ...

From Colorado Springs to Vienna, here’s where you can indulge in a festive winter break. By Stephanie Rosenbloom Winter is fast approaching, and at these five festive new and renovated escapes — ...

In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many... It's Christmastime — and if you live in the Alps, ...