Nigeria's government has secured the release of 100 schoolchildren who were abducted from a Catholic boarding school last month, according to local media.

A water leak at the Louvre has damaged hundreds of books – just weeks after jewels worth £76m were stolen from the famous Paris museum.

One man has been arrested, and further suspects are being traced, after 21 people needed medical attention following a "pepper spray" incident at London's Heathrow Airport.

Martin Parr CBE, the famed British documentary photographer hailed as "a giant" of his craft, has died aged 73.

A cruise ship has been forced to delay its departure after shipping containers carrying bananas fell overboard from a cargo ship off the Isle of Wight.

A murder investigation is underway after a woman and young boy died in a house fire in Edenderry, Co Offaly.

The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.

The pop star posted a string of photographs of herself and the former Canadian prime minister.

Lando Norris won his maiden Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship on Sunday after coming third in the deciding showdown in Abu Dhabi.

Benin's government says its armed forces have "foiled" an attempted coup after soldiers claimed on national television they had seized power.

The protective shield at the site of the 1986 disaster has lost its main safety function, the IAEA says.

At the same time, the Trump administration is withdrawing free entry on Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth.

Donald Trump's eldest son has said his father may walk away from the Ukraine peace process, claiming the issue is not a priority for Americans, and signalling Europe needs a better plan.

Young people could lose their right to universal credit if they refuse to engage with help from a new scheme without good reason, the government has warned.

Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has been erupting intermittently since December last year.

The pop star posted a string of photographs of herself and the former Canadian Prime Minster.

More than 100,000 homes were destroyed when powerful rains lashed the South East Asian country last week.

The first week of December at The New York Times is known as “Cookie Week.” Every day, for seven days, our cooking team highlights a new holiday cookie recipe. This year’s batch features flavors that aren’t necessarily traditional holiday ones — or even, for that matter, flavors. Instead, they draw inspiration from family night at the movies, drinks like Vietnamese Coffee, and perhaps most surprisingly, an Italian deli meat.

In this edition of the Sunday Special, Gilbert Cruz talks with Melissa Clark and Vaughn Vreeland from New York Times Cooking about this year’s cookies, and they answer questions from readers about how to navigate cooking and baking during the holidays.

Background Reading:

These 7 Cookies Will Be the Life of Every Party

Melissa Clark is a food reporter and columnist for The Times.

Vaughn Vreeland is a supervising video producer for NYT Cooking and writes the “Bake Time” newsletter.

Audio produced by Tina Antolini and Alex Barron with Kate LoPresti. Edited by Wendy Dorr. Engineered by Rowan Niemisto. Original music by Daniel Powell and Diane Wong. 

Photo credit: Rachel Vanni for The New York Times. 

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