December 1, 2018,
December 1, 2018, Protesters clash with police in Paris. (Reuters)
December 1, 2018, More than 1,000 aftershocks shake Alaska after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake knocked out power, ripped open roads and splintered buildings in Anchorage. (CNN)
December 3, 2018, NASA's space probe OSIRIS-REx arrives at the asteroid Bennu. (The New York Times)
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December 3, 2018, Soyuz MS-11 successfully launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, and CSA astronaut David Saint-Jacques for Expedition 58 to the International Space Station. (CBC)
December 4, 2018, The alleged boss of the Cosa Nostra mafia clan is arrested along with 45 suspected accomplices in the province of Palermo, Italy. They are accused of aggravated extortion. (Euronews)
December 4, 2018, Following large protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's planned increases on fuel taxes, French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announces that these plans will be suspended for at least six months. (Bloomberg)
December 4, 2018, The Government of the United Kingdom is found to be in contempt of parliament for the first time in history. The motion, which passed by 311 to 293 votes in the House of Commons, was triggered by Theresa May's government failing to publish its legal advice on its Brexit withdrawal plan. (CNN)
December 4, 2018, In ice hockey, the National Hockey League announces that its board of governors unanimously approved a new franchise for Seattle. The new team will start play in the 2021–22 season, bringing the league's membership to 32 teams. (ESPN)
December 5, 2018, The casket for former U.S. President George H. W. Bush arrives at the National Cathedral. (Politico)
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U.S. President Donald Trump and former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton attend the ceremony alongside German chancellor Angela Merkel and Britain's Prince Charles. (The Guardian)
December 5, 2018, SpaceX successfully launches CRS-16 on its way to the International Space Station. The first stage crashes into the ocean near Cape Canaveral and is later recovered. (Universe Today)
December 5, 2018, Tsunami waves reportedly strike parts of New Caledonia and northern Vanuatu following a magnitude 7.5 earthquake centered near the Loyalty Islands. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
December 6, 2018, The French police union Vigi calls on police officers to begin an
indefinite strike on December 8 and join anti-government protesters,
noting that "a majority of the French continue to back the movement". (Sputnik News)
December 6, 2018, Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush is laid to rest at his Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. (NBC News)
December 6, 2018, God of War is named Game of the Year at The Game Awards annual awards ceremony in Los Angeles. (The Telegraph)
December 7, 2018, Release of Mary Queen of Scots
December 7, 2018, Release of Ben is Back
December 7, 2018, The China National Space Administration successfully launches Chang'e 4 from Xichang Satellite Launch Center which will attempt the first ever robotic landing on the far side of the Moon in 2019. (BBC)
December 7, 2018, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou attends a bail hearing in Vancouver
while she awaits extradition to the United States. She is charged by
Canadian and American prosecutors with conspiracy to defraud multiple
financial institutions in order to commit evasion of United States sanctions against Iran so as to conduct business with Iran. (Reuters)
December 7, 2018, A jury finds James Alex Fields guilty of the murder, in the first degree, of Heather Heyer at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Al Jazeera)
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December 9, 2018, In American football, Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals passes Jerry Rice to become the all-time receptions leader with one team. (USA Today)
December 9, 2018, In Major League Baseball, the Hall of Fame announces the first members of its 2019 induction class, with Harold Baines and Lee Smith voted in by one of four special committees. They, along with any players elected by the Baseball Writers' Association of America in January 2019, will be formally inducted at the Hall's facility in Cooperstown, New York on July 21, 2019. (AP via ESPN)
December 10, 2018, NASA announces that Voyager 2 entered into the interstellar medium after exiting the heliosphere on November 5. (NASA)
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