Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes overnight and early today killed at least 28 Palestinians, including at one family's home and at a school building the military said was used by Hamas.
A court in Germany has ordered the pre-trial detention of a Saudi man, arrested on suspicion of carrying out the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday.
The National Meals on Wheels Network has highlighted gaps in the service across the country, which are leaving some elderly and vulnerable people without a hot meal.
The US president-elect Donald Trump slammed what he called unfair fees for US ships passing through the Panama Canal and threatened control of the waterway be returned to Washington.
The US said it conducted strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen's rebel held capital Sanaa, including on what it said was a missile storage centre and a "command-and-control facility".
Tyson Fury's mission to avenge his only professional defeat ended in crushing disappointment as he lost on a unanimous points decision to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in Riyadh.
The suspected perpetrator of a deadly car ramming at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, is a 50-year-old Saudi refugee who declared himself an atheist and "anti-Islam".
Five people, including two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza strip, medics have said.
Vigils and memorials have been held in the German city of Magdeburg and further afield after a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market killed five people including a nine-year-old child.
Over 2,000 people gathered at Newgrange in Co Meath for the Winter Solstice - the astronomical phenomenon that marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year.
Syria wants to contribute to "regional peace", the country's new authorities said, after a meeting between leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and a US diplomatic delegation.
The US Congress has averted a Christmastime government shutdown after weeks of tense negotiations that went down to the wire, passing a bill to fund federal agencies through mid-March.
