"Call of Duty" co-creator Vince Zampella dies after crash on Los Angeles highway

Updated on: December 22, 2025 / 8:22 PM PST / CBS LA

Powerball jackpot Christmas Eve will be estimated $1.7 billion, the 4th largest in U.S. lottery history

Updated on: December 23, 2025 / 12:38 AM EST / CBS News

My weirdest Christmas: my family had a picture-perfect celebration

I grew up in a Muslim family in Dubai, but became obsessed with the Hallmark vision of Christmas, and with Macaulay Culkin. The reality was a disappointment only Home Alone could assuage

Spanish villagers devastated by forest fire win €468m in lottery prizes

Mayor of La Bañeza says winning El Gordo Christmas lottery ‘is something that has fallen from the heavens’

My big night out: I was hungover and locked in an apartment. The only escape? A high, narrow window ledge

It was 1995, and I had spent the evening carousing and drinking neat vodka. Now I was trapped in a friend’s flat in Paris, with no phone – and he had flown to New York

Man describes narrow escape after boats pulled into giant hole on Shropshire canal

Major incident declared as 50-metre-long breach opens up in waterway previously flagged as ‘amber risk’