NYC got into the Christmas spirit by going six whole days without a MURDER during the holidays as the city looks set to have another year with less than 300 homicides http://clc.am/JyewQA

Gang member who fired barrage of bullets at kid’s birthday party, killing two, executed in Texas #fools http://clc.am/PX7QJQ

Heavy snow and rainstorms from Storm Eboni are also predicted to create dangerous road conditions for millions of travelers heading out after Christmas.

In Russia, a successful launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from the Vostochny cosmodrome #wow

Something went wrong... #losers #lol 😂

British tourists' Land Cruiser was being 'driven wildly and speeding' before it plunged off bridge in Iceland's 'black desert', killing three including child and leaving four fighting for their lives http://clc.am/B5v1aw

A young boy was struck by a car and thrown into the air after running behind a parked car and out into the road in Townhill in Swansea

When leopards attack! Ferocious big cat comes out of nowhere and leaves four injured while crowd flees in India #wow 🐯

Russian propaganda @rt_russian channel sends out chocolate Salisbury Cathedrals: Outcry at 'sick' joke about deadly GRU attack on British soil. Recall that the involvement of the Russian Federation in the chemical attack in Solbury is still no evidence.

Temperatures soaring in Barcelona! Moment an unsuspecting man strips NAKED in the background of a weather report from a beach in the Spanish city. #facepalm #lol 😂

Ledge-end - or setting himself up for a fall? Maniac cyclist rides his mountain bike on the outside of a Dubai skyscraper only inches from certain death #wow 😱

Cat Mao Mao was filmed frantically swiping at her owner's tablet while playing Fruit Ninja in China's Tianjin City. #funny 🐱

'It was a nightmare': John Wayne Bobbitt recalls the moment he woke up and realized that wife Lorena had chopped his penis off 😱 http://clc.am/gjHe8Q

Three are injured in mid-air turbulence over Texas as Storm Eboni causes flight delays across the US - after warnings that FOUR MILLION people could be stranded in blizzards 😱 http://clc.am/6K77Rw

Canadian citizen faces trial in China for smuggling 'an enormous amount of drugs' into the country amid ongoing tensions between Beijing and Ottawa http://clc.am/YG514g

More law enforcement officers — 144 — died in the line of duty in the United States in 2018 than in 2017, reversing a one-year decline, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. http://clc.am/feA65A

A partial government shutdown continued toward the end of its sixth day Thursday amid no signs that Congress and the White House are any closer to ending their standoff http://clc.am/ANgyfw

NASA's unmanned New Horizon spacecraft, now zooming into outer space beyond Pluto, will fly by a small space rock known as Ultima Thule on New Year's Day. http://clc.am/mJ3Pag