Up to quarter of a million medical operations and appointments could be postponed due to next week’s four-day strike planned by tens of thousands of doctors in England, while putting seriously ill patients at greater risk, the NHS Confederation has warned.

European countries are experiencing a wave of strikes and protests due to high energy prices, an unprecedented rise in living costs compounded by poor pay and working conditions as well as other government policies.

Germany is faced with transport disruptions resulting from a cost of living mega strike. Airports, bus and train stations, across Germany have come to a standstill.

Supermarket shelves have been left bare of some fresh fruit and vegetables, particularly tomatoes and cucumbers, in the UK, which could be the “tip of the iceberg”, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) says.

Ambulance staff and other health workers who are a part of Britain's Unison trade union have announced further strike action on March 8, after being cut out of pay talks between health minister and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).

An “ever-increasing” number of households in UK, including teachers, pensioners, and employees of the NHS, are turning to food banks for assistance as a result of the cost of living issue and country’s high inflation, according to new statistics.

The United Kingdom faces the bleakest two years of any major industrial nation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted, and is on course to become the only G7 country whose economy will shrink this year.

British firefighters have voted for nationwide strikes across the UK in a row over pay for the first time in 20 years.

Nearly half of the British young population fear they will “never” earn enough money to support a family, a leading youth charity has revealed.

Around 100,000 British civil servants have announced plans to strike on February 1, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has announced, in an escalation of a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.