Laurent Lamothe Laurent Lamothe resigns as Prime Minister of Haiti along with several ministers following violent protests and a commission's call for him to step down. The protesters have been demanding the holding of early elections.
2014 Japanese citizens vote in a general election. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner win 325 seats out of 475 and thus a new term.
Turkey Turkish police arrest 24 journalists, all of whom are supporters of Fethullah Gülen who is a rival of current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and is currently in self-imposed exile in the United States.
United Nations The United Nations adopts a format for national pledges to tackle climate change after meetings extend into the weekend at the conference held in Lima, Peru.
Angalifu Angalifu, a male of the critically endangered northern white rhinoceros, dies at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The remaining rhinoceroses are one female at the Zoo (Nola), three at a zoo in the Czech Republic, and one male at a Kenyan preserve (Sudan).
Capsized ferry MV Mutambala The death toll of a capsized ferry MV Mutambala on December 12 in Lake Tanganyika, Democratic Republic of the Congo rises to 129 with authorities continuing to search for bodies or survivors.
Landslide The death toll from a landslide in central Java in Indonesia rises to 24 with scores still missing.
BC Partners European private equity firm BC Partners agrees to buy American pet supplies retail chain PetSmart for $8.7 billion.
Amenhotep III Archaeologists reconstruct two giant statues of Amenhotep III, toppled by an earthquake at the Nile River in 1200 BC. The team's restoration project re-erected surviving fragments at the northern gate of the king's funerary temple.
Bashar al-Assad A battle between Bashar al-Assad loyalist forces and Islamist rebels in Aleppo Governorate leave 34 rebels dead and 3 loyalist fighters captured.