Cosmopolitan Christmas: Stosie Madi’s French-African-Lebanese Christmas lunch

A cross-cultural jamboree of a festive meal, mixing Middle Eastern, west African and French cuisine: peppered smoked mackerel pies, crab gratin, slow-cooked lamb, jewelled rice, and a rum and pineapple cake to round things off

Tell us your favourite new podcast of 2025

We would like to hear about your favourite new podcast you’ve been listening to this year and why

Blind date: ‘Did we kiss? It’s the flu season’

Aaron, 28, a digital producer, meets Tara, 30, who works in marketing

My weirdest Christmas: I was flirting wildly with my crush

At a Barbados beach barbecue, I attempted to attract the attention of handsome Dwayne. I ended up with drenched hair and no sunglasses or bikini top

Trap intended for bear living under Altadena home catches another bear

Updated on: December 19, 2025 / 10:29 PM PST / CBS LA

Life ring and piece from Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck sell at auction for $150,000

A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship's sinking in Lake Superior with 29 men aboard.