Arts and culture
2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism
The chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) describes the granting of autocephaly on January 5 to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as "a secular event." (Kyiv Post)
Disasters and accidents
At least 30 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in north-eastern Afghanistan. (BBC News)
The death toll from a storm that devastated the Philippines shortly after Christmas rises to 126. (News24)