AAA estimates 122.4 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home for Christmas and New Year's, up more than 2% from last year.

Longtime Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has dampened hopes for elections that are years overdue. Presidential and parliamentary polls should be held within a year after the end of the Gaza war, Abbas said on Friday in Rome, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

PARIS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - This week, Airbus got a brutal reminder that even the world’s most-delivered jet - the A320 - isn’t immune to shocks as disparate as solar flares and flawed metal. Days after recalling 6,000 A320-series planes over a software glitch linked to cosmic radiation, the European giant was ​forced to slash delivery targets when defects surfaced in some of their fuselage panels.