World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

Australia has "serious concerns" over the latest form of a global climate agreement, with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warning of a challenging few days ahead in Paris.

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LOS ANGELES - Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Ruby Rose and Miranda Otto have been nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards, but the news was not so good for Australia's male acting talent.

WASHINGTON - The couple who massacred 14 people at a California holiday party were discussing martyrdom online before they met in person and married last year, FBI Director James Comey says.

PARIS - French police have identified the third gunman from the deadly attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, Prime Minister Manuel Valls says, with the attacker's father telling AFP he "would have killed him" if he had known.

LONDON - The Scottish government has sacked US presidential hopeful Donald Trump as a business ambassador and a university has revoked his honorary degree after he called for a ban on Muslims entering the US.

PARIS - The first-ever vaccine against dengue fever, which affects up to 400 million people a year, including in Australia, will be publicly available for the first time after being cleared for use in Mexico, French manufacturer Sanofi says.

WASHINGTON - A video of four-year-old dancer known as Heaven King, sometimes called a "mini Beyonce", was the most viewed item of the year on YouTube.


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