# Anti-police riots (pictured) continue in Athens and several cities across Greece.
# Ireland issues an international recall of its pork products following the discovery of contaminated pig feed.
# Patriarch Alexy II, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, dies of heart failure in Peredelkino, Russia.
# A bombing kills 29 people and injures more than 100 in Peshawar, Pakistan.
# A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe spreads, with hundreds dead and over 10,000 people infected since August 2008.
# At the request of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean prorogues the parliament until January 26, 2009, to avoid a confidence motion by a newly-formed coalition of opposition parties.
