Southeast Asia
 | ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - President Benigno Aquino on Wednesday personally thanked congressmen who impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona during their Christmas party at the House of Representatives. |
 | ABC News (blog) - In this, Dec. 13, 2011 photo, men sit inside a pool in a police school compound after their heads were shaved in Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia. |
 | Inquirer.net - Hailed as an “icon of the modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines,” the Philippine Navy's BRP Gregorio del Pilar will finally set sail to the West Philippine Sea by next week. |
 | Bernama - BANGKOK, Dec 14 (Bernama) -- The Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) has come out with a six-point Ethical Guidelines Declaration as it celebrated its 50th anniversary here today. |
 | TODAYonline - by Agencies BANGKOK - The Thai police have named 10 sites in the capital that could become targets of bomb attacks during the New Year celebrations, and said they will tighten security in the areas. |
 | TODAYonline - Singapore - The number of service disruptions on the Circle Line in the first 10 months of this year has already equalled the total experienced by commuters last year, according to figures from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) . |
 | Stuff.co.nz - ON TRIAL: Former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea sits in the courtroom during his trial at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. |
 | Forbes - A shortage of hard drive disks in Thailand after the devastating floods that put Bangkok under water in October has started to show up as heavy costs for some technology companies. |
 | Catholic San Francisco - By Father Marvin-Paul R. Felipe, SDB Simbang Gabi traces its roots to Mexico when, in 1587, the pope granted the petition of Fray Diego de Soria, prior of the convent of San Agustin Acolman, to hold Christmas Mass outdoors because the church could not ... |
 | TODAYonline - You will soon be able to go for a holiday in Brazil without having to apply for a visa. Singapore and Brazil have signed an agreement which will allow ordinary passport holders from both countries to visit the other country for business or tourism ... |
 | Jakarta Post - The Free Papua Movement (OPM) has said that it is waiting for instructions to strike back after claiming that three of its fighters were injured in an armed clash with the police on Tuesday. |
 | Western Telegraph - Aelfwyn Shipton impressed one of the world's top ice-cream manufacturers at a UK-wide contest to be judged as the official Häagen- Dazs taste tester. |
World
 | ABC Online - The new climate change agreements arduously reached last weekend at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has been widely hailed as an "historic breakthrough". |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Five people were killed early today after Syrian security forces targeted their car near Hama, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. |
 | Times LIVE - Belgian investigators yesterday found the first victim of a gunman who attacked Christmas shoppers and children in the city of Liege, and expressed bafflement about why a small-time criminal turned into a multiple killer. |
 | Bloomberg - The two Islamist blocs that led the initial round of elections for Egypt's first parliament since the removal of former President Hosni Mubarak are competing to consolidate their gains in the latest round of ... |
 | The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - By Star-Ledger Staff Enlarge Star-Ledger Wire Services A New York City police officer scuffles with Occupy Wall Street protesters after they were evicted from Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011 in New York. |
 | Boston.com - President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) By Ben Feller AP White House Correspondent / December 14, 2011 WASHINGTON—Over and over, the Iraq war is over. |
 | NEWS.com.au - BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron brushed aside calls overnight to negotiate a new EU treaty, as his deputy premier's appearance beside him in parliament cooled talk of a coalition rift. |
 | The Australian - Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Michael Somare, left, toasts the swearing in of his cabinet with PNG Governor-General Michael Ogio at Government House in Port Moresby. |
 | Decoded Science - The island of Papua New Guinea, on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, was struck by a major earthquake on 14 December 2011. Originally recorded as having a magnitude of 7.3, the tremor was later downgraded by the United States Geological Survey to ... |
 | Christian Science Monitor - Police rescued dozens of students at an Islamic seminary in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Chaining is not unheard of for drug or mental health treatment in the region. |
 | CNN - Los Angeles (CNN) -- Dr. Conrad Murray asked for the court to appoint and pay for an attorney to handle his appeal of last month's involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of Michael Jackson. |
 | Ynetnews - Arab MK visits Jerusalem mosque, prompts haredi outrage: 'Would you have acted the same had it been a synagogue that was torched? |
 | gulfnews.com - Image Credit: AP Kil Un-ock (right) who was forced to serve as a sexual slave by the Japanese Army during Second World War shouts slogans with others next to the statue symbolising a wartime sex slave at their 1000th rally to demand an apology. |
 | ABC Online - Philippine authorities say the captors of an Australian man kidnapped in the southern region more than a week ago have called a local governor and expressed the desire to negotiate directly with him. |
 | Inquirer.net - The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an independent institution that tries persons accused of the “most serious crimes of international concern,” particularly genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. |
 | Asianjournal.com - Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago was elected judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the Assembly of State Parties at the judicial elections held Monday, Dec. 12 at the United Nations. |
 | Washington Post - NICOSIA, Cyprus - Cyprus' airports and government offices will shut down Thursday in a daylong strike to protest a public-sector wage freeze and other austerity measures. |
 | Xinhua - XUZHOU, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Three critically injured students died in a hospital in east China's Jiangsu Province early Tuesday, the local government said, bringing the death toll in Monday's school bus accident to 15. |
 | Bloomberg - Splits in the Finnish government may hamper a drive from euro-area governments to ease the approval process for bailouts of struggling nations, setting up a stumbling block on the path to fixing the ... |
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