Developed nations have mobilized some US$80-US$90 billion per year to help the poorest survive a warmer world, delegates at Paris climate talks said, but emerging countries dispute the figures and say a goal of US$100 billion by 2020 is far from reach.

The Greek parliament approved a 2016 budget featuring sharp cuts in spending and some tax increases to satisfy the country's international lenders at a time of growing austerity fatigue.

Islamic State said on December 5 that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in Southern California were its followers, and FBI agents raided a home apparently belonging to a friend of the husband.

A man wielding a knife slashed a man in an east London metro station on December 5, reportedly screaming "this is for Syria", before police used a stun gun to detain him in what they described as a terrorist incident.

One of the Paris cafes where drinkers died in a hail of bullets on Nov. 13 reopened on December 4, three weeks to the day after the Islamist militant attacks that killed 130 people.

Liberia released its last two known Ebola cases from hospital on December 3 as it starts a new countdown to declaring itself free of the virus for a third time.

Britain joined US-led air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on December 3, but Vladimir Putin issued bitter new denunciations of Turkey for shooting down a Russian plane, demonstrating the limits to international solidarity.

Spain's ruling People's Party will win a December 20 parliamentary election but fall short of a majority, according to a closely watched official poll which also showed a leap in support for a new reformist party that may play the role of kingmaker.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he had heard "nothing new" from his Turkish counterpart on December 3 after the first high-level bilateral contact between the two countries since the Turkish airforce shot down a Russian jet nine days ago.

Gunmen opened fire on a holiday party on December 2 at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others, then fled the scene, triggering an intense manhunt and a shootout with police, authorities said.