SpaceX SpaceX releases video of the latest test of their Grasshopper rocket with vertical takeoff and vertical landing, where it rose 40 meters (131 feet), hovered and landed safely on the pad on 17 December.
Steve Jobs Steve Jobs' £85m high-tech yacht "Venus" is freed from the Port of Amsterdam after his estate paid off the last of its bills.
Shot and killed and two others are injured Two firefighters are shot and killed and two others are injured while responding to a fire in Webster, New York.
Minivan A minivan carrying 15 children to kindergarten plunges into a roadside pond in a rural area of eastern China, killing 11 children.
Rain A band of rain sweeping the United Kingdom brings fresh flooding and disrupted rail services to south-west England and Scotland.
American American actor Charles Durning, the two-time Oscar award nominee, dies at the age 89 in New York City.
U.S. U.S. actor Jack Klugman, who starred in the 1970s hit TV series "The Odd Couple" and "Quincy, M.E.", dies at the age of 90.
NATO A NATO adviser is shot dead by a woman in police uniform in Kabul, and at least five Afghan policemen are killed by another officer in northern Afghanistan.
Homs Seven Syrian rebel fighters are killed and a number of others injured at their base in Homs by toxic gas inhalation.