Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump issued a campaign statement following the San Bernardino shootings calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on" (BBC News).

Turkey and Saudi Arabia agreed on establishing a strategic cooperation council on high level. Erdogan and the Saudi King noted that both countries' views on regional issues were nearly identical and that there will be no tangible solution in Syria unless Assad leaves.

On 30 December 2015, local government polls took place in 234 municipalities in Bangladesh amid reports of violence, irregularities, and vote-rigging.

The number of examination irregularities grew 60 per cent to 2,709 as the impact of the teachers' strike and poor supervision witnessed in this year's Standard 8 examination began to be felt. There were 1,702 candidates caught cheating in the 2014 Kenya Certificate of Primary Examinations (KCPE), which means there were 1,007 more candidates engaged in cheating this year. The rise in the vice will also put ban of ranking…