The former KGB officer honoured members of the Russian security intelligence services.
Salah Abdeslam, 26, is still on the run five weeks after taking part in the atrocity which left 130 people dead.
Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes killed scores of people in the centre of Idlib.
Rwandan president can now sit for three more terms once his second term in office ends in 2017
More that 3,400 people gathered in Kansas to beat the Guinness World Record for wearing holiday sweaters.
No explosives were found on flight AF463, after emergency landing in Mombasa.
Seized German national Harry Sarfo spoke of planned attacks on UK soil.
Two-third of train companies will not run services in Britain on Boxing Day.
Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed loyalists due to meet again on January 14
Scotland Yard's £12m investigation into Madeleine's disappearance is expected to close in the new year.
Prime Minister David Cameron has asked the Ministry of Defence to prepare women for the frontline by the end of 2016.
Air France flight 463 from Mauritius to Paris forced to land in Mombasa over suspicious device found on board.
HGV drivers will be given six points for driving using a mobile.
Youngest convicted rapist in the 2012 Delhi bus rape case has been released from a correctional centre.
Australian bushfires destroyed homes with one resident saying he felt lucky to be alive.
Bujumbura rejects AU plan to deploy 5,000 troops to protect civilians in the central African country.
Raids were carried out by Indonesia's counterterrorism squad to nab the suspects.
UK law may be changed to prevent UK police officers who kill on duty facing lengthy court proceedings.
Video has been circulated by Yazidi activists but its origin is unknown.
Mudslide damages and destroys 22 buildings, including two workers' dormitories of southern city's Liuxi Industrial Park.
Eighteen migrants, including 10 children, drown after boat carrying them to Greece sinks off Turkey's coast.
The campaigner was arrested and sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia in 2011, when he was just 17.
Pakistani Taliban says al-Baghdadi is not 'caliph' for all Muslims, but is only a local leader in Iraq.
Fighting erupts in Harad in Hajjah Province despite truce and peace talks in Switzerland.
Turkey's renewed crackdown on Kurdish militants involved 10,000 security personnel.
Flight AF 463 with 459 passengers and 14 crew members on board lands in Kenyan coastal city.
Eight others killed in Israeli air raids in Assad stronghold in Damascus district.
Boat headed for Siwa across the Gulf of Boni had left Kolaka when it was struck by a storm.
Instructors can legally offer driving lessons in exchange for sex as long students are over the age of 18.
The victim was withdrawing money at the St Peter's Hill branch of Natwest in Grantham when he was distracted by the thieves.