After six hours of heated debate, the Congress of Honduras rejected the proposition of reinstating ousted president Manuel Zelaya that has bring the nation into a five-month constitutional crisis.

The Australian Senate has rejected for the second time a bill proposing carbon-trading scheme that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is hoping to present in the Copenhagen climate change talks between world leaders next week.

The entire police department of the province of Maguindanao was removed from their post to eliminate possibilities of impartiality as some members were linked to the massacre of 57 people, the country’s most brutal election-related crime.

Honduras is still divided after the controversial elections held last Sunday, November 30. The results are also dividing the Americas with the United States going in for the votes while Brazil does not want to recognize it. Ousted president Jose Manuel Zelaya called for the cancellation of the election results.

Miss Argentina 1994 Solange Magnano has died from complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery to get firmer buttocks.

About 57.5% of the voters in a national referendum approved the ban on the construction of new mosque minarets on Muslim places of worship.

Rwanda became the 54th member of the Commonwealth of Nations ending a six-year bid. It is the second nation to join the organization that was not a former member of the British Empire after Mozambique joined November 1995.

Former guerilla rebel leader Jose Mujica won the presidential run-off elections of Uruguay, Sunday, November 29, defeating former president Luis Alberto Lacalle who conceded in the name of national unity.

Investment company Dubai World’s debt payments that were delayed by the Dubai government has sent jitters across world markets. Asian markets suffered heavy losses and sovereign-bond market debts is feared to make global financial aftershocks.

Violence erupted in Geneva, Switzerland where the World Trade Organization (WTO) conference is being held. Windows of buildings and cars were burned at the wake of the protesters’ path. About 3,000 demonstrators joined what was supposed to be a “scheduled, peaceful protest.”