You have been busy over the Christmas and the New Year snapping pictures of beautiful scenes in the North East and Cumbria.

11th annual Christmas Festival of Lights at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Bel Air, a free, outdoor, lighted display featuring more than 100,000 festive Christmas lights synchronized to holiday ...

Ethiopian pilgrims pray during a Mass service for Ethiopian Christmas at the Bole Medhane Alem cathedral in Addis Ababa, ...

More than 200 million Christians are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January.

Holiday lights are everywhere – and everywhere they look a little different. In recent weeks, Associated Press photographers ...