News in Pics (24 December 2020)

London:Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year's chaos for cross-border commerce and bring a measure of certainty to businesses after years of Brexit turmoil. The breakthrough on Thursday came after months of tense and often testy negotiations that whittled differences down to three key issues: fair-competition rules, mechanisms for resolving future disputes and fishing rights.

Brussels:FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 file photo, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shakes hands with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker during a press conference at EU headquarters in Brussels. Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year’s chaos for cross-border commerce and bring a measure of certainty to businesses after years of Brexit turmoil. The breakthrough on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020 came after months of tense and often testy negotiations that whittled differences down to three key issues: fair-competition rules, mechanisms for resolving future disputes and fishing rights.

Buenos Aires:Workers unload the first shipment of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine from an airplane at the international airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020.

Jabalpur: Police personnel inspect the site of accident, where a a bus overturned and fell on people standing on the road, at Tendukheda Town, in Jabalpur, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. A jeep had turned turtle a litle while earlier at the same spot, 30 km from Jabalpur city, where the road turns sharply.

Hyderabad: MoS G Kishan Reddy participates in ‘Wear a Mask’ public awareness campaign at Nallakunta in Hyderabad, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020.

Jabalpur: Street vendors sell balloons on the eve of Christmas outside a church in Jabalpur, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020.