Peru Former Peru president Alberto Fujimori is taken, from prison, to a local hospital for treatment for abnormally low blood pressure.
Alan Ewen Donald Previously secret documents from Alan Ewen Donald, the United Kingdom's ambassador to China between 1988 and 1991, regarding the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, are released after being declassified in October, putting the death toll from the protests at 10,000 people.
Mail carrier A mail carrier from Dublin, Ohio, (told that he would lose his job) allegedly kills 2 of his supervisors.
Foreign relations of France French President Emmanuel Macron says he will help strengthen the military forces of the G5 Sahel fighting Islamist militants in the Northern Mali conflict.
2017 Davao City mall fire Thirty-seven people, mostly call centre workers, are missing and presumed dead in a fire in the Davao City Mall in the Philippines.
Rajasthan bus crash Thirty-three people are killed and 15 injured as a bus falls 65 feet into the river in Rajasthan, Western India.
December 2017 Southern California wildfires The Thomas Fire becomes the largest in Californian state history.
London Zoo fire A fire breaks out at a café and shop at the London Zoo. An aardvark is killed and four meerkats are missing.
2017 Pacific typhoon season More than 200 people are dead in the southern Philippines as a result of floods and mudslides caused by Severe Tropical Storm Vinta.