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.

French protesters have blocked a key highway around the capital Paris and ramped up industrial action in protest at the government's contentious pension reform.

France has been hit by yet another wave of mass strikes and protests in response to President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reforms.

A nationwide strike by teaching staff in the UK has resulted in thousands of schools being fully or partially closed, affecting millions of students.

Tens of thousands of teachers across England and Wales are slated to take part in three days of industrial action in the long-running dispute over pay, resulting in the closure of schools.

Tens of thousands of nurses from the Royal College of Nursing Union and ambulance crews have gone on an unprecedented strike, calling on the NHS for increased pay as well as better work conditions

Half a million people from across the public sector came out on the streets in England and Wales demanding better pay and working conditions.