The day’s top stories from BBC News, including the latest from Gaza, on US politics and about the Ukraine conflict. Delivered twice a day on weekdays, daily at weekends.
Our climate editor Justin Rowlatt and The Climate Question presenter Graihagh Jackson address issues including whether the oil-producing UAE is the right host for the meeting, what one thing we can all do to save the planet, and is a plant-based diet on the agenda?
Hamas has handed back thirteen Israeli and four Thai nationals, and Israel is returning thirty-nine Palestinian prisoners. Also: Tens of thousands of Italians protest against gender based violence, and the BBC's Doctor Who marks its sixtieth anniversary with a special TV series.
Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, the war veteran from Texas who's graduated from high school 60 years after he left. Also: the comic book that is educating girls all over the world about periods and menstruation. And: the cat meowing her way to a Christmas hit.
Israel says the hostages, who were held in Gaza, are all in good health. In exchange for their freedom, thirty-nine Palestinian prisoners have been released. Also: A fishing vessel has been seized by suspected Somali pirates, and the French government urges shoppers to think twice before spending money on Black Friday.
They have been handed over to the Red Cross and are on their way to the Egypt border. Also: the convicted murderer and South African former athlete Oscar Pistorius is to be released on parole; and the singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading on writing her first classical symphony.
Qatar says it hopes the pause in fighting it's helped arrange can be turned into a longer-term ceasefire. Also: Riot police in the Irish capital, Dublin, clash with crowds of protesters near the scene of a multiple stabbing, and parts of the state of Queensland in Australia have been over-run with a plague of rats.
Qatar says it's continuing work to finalise a pause in the fighting in Gaza. Also, Ukraine's stolen children, the return of the blue whales and Doctor Who at 60.
Exit polls from the parliamentary election put the Freedom party well ahead of its rivals. Also: Relatives of the hostages held in Gaza wait to see who could be freed, and rescue workers close in on more than 40 workers trapped under a collapsed tunnel in India.
Hamas will free 50 hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners. Israel is continuing military operations against Hamas in Gaza ahead of a planned pause in the conflict. Also: OpenAI announces Sam Altman to return as CEO, and it's kimchi day in South Korea. How has the fermented vegetable dish become such a global phenomenon?
The PM discusses with top officials a deal that could see at least 50 hostages freed from Gaza and a temporary pause in fighting. Also: the CEO of the world's largest crypto-exchange, Binance, pleads guilty to money laundering charges, and the venomous two metre long green mamba - on the loose in a Dutch city.
A deal to release hostages taken from Israel during Hamas attacks last month is "closer than ever before", according to a senior US official. Also : The first images have emerged of 41 men trapped for more than a week in a highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas and a lost BBC interview with street artist Banksy is unearthed
In a letter they demand the reinstatement of Sam Altman who was sacked on Friday. Also: The United Nations says the world is on course for a catastrophic warming -- even if countries meet their current pledges to cut emissions, and the global rise in the number of young sharing a bed to tackle the cost of living crisis.
Mr Milei promises huge change for the country. Also: as 28 babies evacuated from a hospital in Gaza arrive in Egypt- another hospital has become embroiled in the conflict, and the Colombian pop star Shakira has reached a deal with Spanish prosecutors to settle a multi-million-dollar tax fraud case.
The Israeli military has released footage which it says shows captives being taken into Al-Shifa after the deadly Hamas attacks on 7 October. Also: the former US first lady, Rosalynn Carter, has died at 96, and Napoleon's hat has sold for almost two million euros.
Hundreds of people including patients left Al Shifa Hospital on Saturday. The Hamas-run health authorities say 80 people were killed in two airstrikes on Jabaliya refugee camp. Also: Elon Musk has hailed the latest launch of his giant Starship rocket as a success, even though it blew up, and what's in the etiquette guide on the correct way to use mobile phones.
Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, Kenya hands out 100 million saplings and calls a public holiday to plant them. Also: a new drug to treat two rare blood disorders, and a woman from Scotland who walked across Europe and met the Pope.
The UN relief agency for Palestinians reiterates that the humanitarian situation in the territory is overwhelming. Also: The White House criticises Elon Musk after the head of Tesla appeared to promote an antisemitic post on his X platform. And, why some sailors are playing thrash metal music to fend off attacks on their boats by killer whales.
The move comes as the UN says the aid operation is 'impossible'. Also: A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe triggers a state of emergency, and Amazon announces it will sell cars on its US site.
Israeli forces say Yehudit Weiss was abducted by Hamas on 7 October. Also, Kenya approves a plan to send a thousand troops to Haiti to help deal with gang violence, and Britain's foreign secretary, the former prime minister David Cameron, visits Ukraine on his first official trip.
Our correspondent is taken inside the Gaza hospital raided by Israel's soldiers. Also: German police carry out countrywide raids on suspected Islamists with links to Hezbollah; and - in a world first - UK authorities approve gene therapy treatment to cure blood disorders.
IDF releases video of what it says are arms and ammunition discovered at Al Shifa hospital. Also,the leaders of the two most powerful nations in the world meet in California, and how a heatwave is damaging Brazil's economy.
A doctor has spoken of fear among medics and patients as soldiers go room to room interrogating people. Also: Britain's Supreme Court rules the government's flagship policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, and a New Zealand competition to find its bird of the century ends with a grunting, puking creature with a colourful mullet.
Pentagon says Hamas has stored weapons in tunnels at the Al Shifa hospital. Palestinian civilians are at risk as Israel attacks Gaza's biggest hospital. Also, the town kept awake by humming.
The director of the Al-Shifa medical facility says there have been dozens of bodies. Also: flights are suspended in South Korea to help students with their exams, and the extraordinary relationship between a stuntman and the actor who plays Harry Potter.
Israel says Hamas is using the hospitals to hide its command centres. Also: Donald Trump's son returns to the witness stand in the family fraud trial; and the book that's so difficult to understand, it can take decades to read
Suella Braverman is sacked as home secretary in a surprise reshuffle and the former prime minister returns - but as foreign secretary. Also, Hamas reports babies dying in Gaza, and why Kenyans are planting millions of trees.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the situation at Al-Shifa is dire and perilous. The International Committee of the Red Cross says Gaza is rapidly approaching a humanitarian disaster. Also: The French Prime Minister leads a march in support of the Jewish community, which was boycotted by the far-left purportedly for being pro-Israel. And, the ongoing mystery surrounding the Loch Ness monster in Scotland.
Israeli forces battle Hamas nearby. They say they've left a corridor open for people to flee, and will help evacuate babies on Sunday. Also: A key bridge in the Sudanese capital Khartoum has been destroyed, and remembering Frank Borman, the man who commanded the first manned mission to circle the Moon, who has died at the age of 95.
Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, the biologist who's dedicated his life to protecting penguins in South America. Also: the award-winning Frenchman they call the Michelangelo of tattooists. And Peanut, the world’s oldest chicken
Israel says it does not fire on hospitals but will do what it needs to if Hamas fires from them. Also: The White House says President Biden will meet the Chinese leader Xi Jinping next week to try to stabilise relations, and the Turkish President says he is prepared to change the constitution to resolve a judicial dispute.
