What would Boxing Day in Australia be without the traditional Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground? Well, you don't have to go back very far to find out.
Here's what's coming up:
10:30am AEDT: The Australia vs Pakistan Boxing Day Test will begin at the MCG
1:00pm AEDT: The 2016 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race will start
7:30pm AEDT: Melbourne United will take on the Brisbane Bullets in the NBL
A Russian plane headed to an air base in Syria with 92 people on board, including members of a well-known military choir, crashes into the Black Sea on Christmas Day minutes after taking off from the resort city of Sochi.
A powerful typhoon makes landfall on the eastern coast of central Philippines, where at least 200,000 people are spending their Christmas in evacuation shelters.
The mercury has soared to 40C in Adelaide, delivering the city's hottest Christmas on record since 1945, with Aussies flocking to beaches around the country to beat the summer heat.
Bathing in watermelon skins, a zip-lining Santa, and building a tree from empty shells in Syria — these pictures capture the creative and wonderful ways the world is marking Christmas.
Pope Francis delivers a Christmas message filled with hope for peace in a world lacerated by war and terrorism, urging people to remember migrants, refugees and those hit by economic instability caused by "idolatry of money".
Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt dies in Spain from a severe infection aged 68, his manager and family confirm, as music industry greats including Billy Idol and The Who express their grief online.
Out-of-form Australia batsman Nic Maddinson is granted a reprieve with his captain Steve Smith confirming his side will be unchanged for tomorrow's Boxing Day Test against Pakistan.
Melbourne lifesaver Simon Lewis spent Christmas Day on an asylum seeker rescue boat in the Mediterranean Sea, as rescuers predict calmer seas will encourage more people to make the risky journey to Europe.
Asylum seekers at the Manus Island detention centre briefly took control of two compounds and expelled guards after the death of Sudanese refugee Faysal Ishak Ahmed, Papua New Guinea police say.
Tributes pour in for Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher, who spent Christmas Eve in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a medical emergency on a flight.
Clinton Pryor is attempting to do something no other person has done before — walk across the Australian continent in protest against the forced closures of Indigenous communities.
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