Tens of thousands of British nurses has gone on strike in their unprecedented second round of industrial action in less than a week.

Tens of thousands of UK postal workers have started the first day of planned nationwide strikes that are expected to disrupt deliveries across the country.

The French government has suspended a road travel prohibition for UK nationals, allowing Britons to drive through France to reach their residential homes in EU member states.

US airlines called off hundreds of flights for the third day in a row on Sunday as crews were grounded amid surging COVID-19 infections due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

“Unfortunately we have seen a handful of sites temporarily close due to a lack of both unleaded and diesel grades,” the oil giant BP said in a statement.

Members of the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group kill at least 11 people in a Christmas Eve assault on a village in the volatile northeastern Nigerian state of Borno.

It is that time of year for most Christians to celebrate and reflect. With Christmas being so important for Christians, perhaps this holiday season could be used by western Christians to ponder more about their Eastern Christian brothers and sisters.