A housing crisis is crippling the lives of renters in the UK as high demand and a staggering decline in available properties have resulted in tenants across the country facing a dramatic increase in the price of rent.

Europe is hit by wave of strikes and protests amid high energy prices and unprecedented rise in living costs.

France is hit by major transport disruptions on Tuesday as nationwide protests have been held across the country second time in less than a month aimed at forcing the government to back down on a controversial pension plan.

Thousands protest on the streets of Brussels demanding more support to deal with a growing cost of living crisis.

Soaring inflation and energy price hikes are forcing more Britons to rely on food aid to avoid starvation.

Huge rallies blast rising costs of living in Berlin and the government's climate inaction in Lisbon.

The UK's cost of living crisis due in large part by energy price hikes is pushing more and more people into poverty.

Tens of thousands of people rally in Paris, raging against soaring cost of living.

French motorists have been made to wait in long queues across the country to refuel their vehicles as petrol pumps run dry amid an ongoing strike in the country’s energy sector.

Italians - mostly union and party members but also some local residents - protested against the rising cost of living in Italy.