- There was yet another aviation accident/incident on the weekend, when a de Havilland Dash 8, operated by PAL Airlines on behalf of Air Canada, landed at Halifax without its left main gear extended. Despite a fire breaking out, passengers were successfully evacuated without serious injury.
- The Jeju Air Boeing 737 that crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea had passed a pre-flight inspection with no apparent issues prior to the fatal flight. The government has ordered that airline as well as another one, Aero K, to suspend operations while the matter is investigated; several safety violations not directly related to the crash have been found so far.
- There have been 16 major disease outbreaks on cruise ships in the last year; diseases include norovirus, salmonella, and pathogenic strains of E. coli.
- Joe Biden has said that he could have won the election; he has, however, expressed regret for going along with advice to appoint Merrick Garland as attorney general. While I have my doubts that the first part is correct, Garland's failure to aggressively prosecute Trump seems worthy of regret.
- Finnish investigators have found a 100 km long seabed trail where the anchor of that Cook Islands-registered oil tanker seems to have been dragged, adding to suspicions that the undersea electrical cable to Estonia was the target of sabotage. Estonia has been trying to make its power grid independent of Russia, and many suspect that this didn't sit well with the Kremlin.
- Fifteen people are dead and around 30 injured following a vehicle attack on New Year's revellers in New Orleans on Wednesday morning. The driver, who was killed by police, was American-born, but a flag associated with ISIS/Daesh was found at the scene. Meanwhile in Las Vegas someone detonated a primitive device in a rented Cybertruck in front of the Trump Hotel in that city, killing the driver and injuring several other people; police are still investigating whether the two events are connected.
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