Thales Alenia Space Specialists from Thales Alenia Space carry out some maneuvers to bring the Russian Yamal-402 satellite into its designated orbit after a premature separation from Briz-M, the upper stage of a Proton-M carrier rocket, during the launch on 8 December.
Government of Malta The government of Malta loses a budget vote, causing early elections to be called.
Landslide victory In a landslide victory, Prime Minister Victor Ponta's ruling Social Liberal Union wins nearly 60% of votes in Romania's parliamentary election, with a projected 66-67% of MP mandates.
2Day FM The two 2Day FM presenters who made a prank call to London's King Edward VII's Hospital give their first interviews to Australian television following the death of Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse who answered the call.
Baghdadi Mahmudi Baghdadi Mahmudi, a former Prime Minister of Libya, under Muammar Gaddafi, goes on trial in Tripoli charged with "acts that led to the unjust killing of Libyans".
John Hickenlooper John Hickenlooper, the Governor of the US state of Colorado, issues a proclamation allowing the personal use of marijuana following the passage of an amendment to the state constitution last month.
Japan Japan goes on full alert as North Korea announces it has delayed its launch of a long range Unha rocket until 29 December.
Tolima department At least nine people are killed and at 32 others are wounded in Tolima department, Colombia, after a bus falls of a 300-meter cliff.
Minquan County Eleven people are killed and 23 injured in Minquan County, Henan province, China, after a passenger bus swerves off the road and falls in a roadside pond.
New Zealand A New Zealand Royal Commission finds that the CTV Building that collapsed during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake killing 115 people was poorly designed and built and should not have received a building permit.
Philippines The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Bopha rises to 647 with 780 people still missing.
Google Google begins selling basic laptop computers for $99, meeting the $100 price point set out as a challenge by a prominent professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Nicholas Negroponte) eight years ago.
War in Afghanistan Unknown gunmen assassinate Nadia Sediqqi, head of the women's affairs department in Laghman Province, Afghanistan. She was shot as she was getting into her rickshaw on her way to work in the provincial capital Mehtar Lam, according to a provincial government spokesperson.
Mohammad Musa Rasouli, the police chief of Afghanistan's Nimroz Province, is killed by a roadside bomb while returning home from Herat Province.
Syrian civil war Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra is declared a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
Rebel forces seize parts of the Sheikh Suleiman army base near Aleppo after weeks of heavy fighting. Ground clashes continue in the suburbs of Damascus as the government carries out further air raids against opposition forces.