Stormy weather leaves angry passengers stranded at Gatwick, while thousands face Christmas without power and flood warnings force residents to leave their homes.

A Santa's helper delivering toys in the US city of Washington is shot in the back with a pellet gun but vows to carry before being treated in hospital.

Crowds gather in the West Bank town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations, while in Rome, Pope Francis presides over his first Christmas Eve Mass as pontiff.

Two US astronauts successfully repair a critical cooling system pump at the International Space Station, during a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk.

A church in York is told it can keep about £100,000 in banknotes which were found in a bin bag on its property earlier this year.

A cat is rescued from the the top of a billboard in Luton.

Palestinian-Jordanian radical cleric Abu Qatada takes a defiant stance as his trial on terrorism charges resumes in the Jordanian capital.

A woman from the Vale of Glamorgan is ahead of two men in a 500-mile (800km) challenge to cycle from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole.