The day

Saturday 20 December 2025

6 stories, biggest first.

1. 1

   News2025 United States naval deployment in the Caribbean

   The United States Coast Guard intercepts and seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela after previously seizing another last week.

2. 2

   News

   Seven elephants are killed and another is injured when a passenger train strikes a herd in the Hojai district of Assam, India.

3. 3

   NewsOperation Hawkeye Strike

   The United States and Jordan carry out airstrikes on 70 Islamic State targets at multiple locations in Syria, in retaliation for the December 2025 Palmyra attack.

4. 4

   Crime

   Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in Urmia.

5. 5

   CrimeArrest of Imran Khan

   A Pakistani court sentences former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of corruption-related charges.

6. 6

   ScienceBlue Origin NS-37

   German engineer Michaela Benthaus becomes the first person in a wheelchair and the first with paraplegia to travel to space on a sub-orbital trip conducted by Blue Origin.

Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 20 December 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.