Summary: Tracking Santa Claus on his journey around the world on Christmas Eve. … Official NORAD Santa Tracker. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on December 24, 2008, Aubrey Immelman reported that the Iraqi parliament, in its final session of the year, forced out its abrasive speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and authorized non-U.S. foreign troops to stay in the country for another six months.