A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle, 200 miles northwest of Stockholm, was set ablaze on December 17 for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running tradition of locals ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters Life!) - Arsonists set fire early on Wednesday to a giant straw statue of the Swedish Yule goat, a forerunner to Santa Claus in Sweden, defying security measures for a third year in ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Vandals again torched a giant straw Christmas goat in a town in central Sweden. The goat has gone up in smoke so frequently that it's almost become a Christmas tradition. Merchants ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Not even a layer of ice was enough to keep three people from torching the giant straw goat in a Swedish town where the annual challenge of charring it to the ground has become an ...

The Christmas season is considered the “most wonderful time of the year” in many cultures around the world. A season of gift-giving, merry carolers singing songs of good tidings, and more time spent ...

A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle, 200 miles northwest of Stockholm, was set ablaze on December 17 for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running tradition of locals ...