2. A close hearing is set in Washington today with leaders of an independent panel that's blaming the State department for security lapses at the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. That's where four Americans were killed by militants in September.

 

 

 

3. Judges in France have decided not to drop aggravated pimping charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Strauss-Kahn admits to attending sexual gatherings but says he did not know some of the women there were paid.

 

 

 

4. On the streets of Providence, Rhode Island, the holidays mean the reappearance of officer Tony Lepore and his dancing "cop routine". Drivers don't speed past him as they wave in the appreciation.