December 17, 2022 (Saturday)
Arts and culture
- Strictly Come Dancing
- Wildlife presenter Hamza Yassin and his professional partner Jowita Przystal win the coveted glitterball trophy despite a few mistakes and landing in the bottom of the leaderboard. (BBC News)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni Civil War
- Three people are killed and another is injured in a landmine explosion in Al Hudaydah, Yemen. (Mehr News)
Business and economy
- Economy of Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan announces a nearly $1 billion loan from the two main World Bank lending institutions, aimed at supporting the country's transition to a private sector-led economy. (Xinhua)
Disasters and accidents
- Five people are killed and five others are injured in a head-on collision of a bus and a pickup truck near Ventersburg, Free State, South Africa. (NewZimbabwe)
- Three people are killed and 17 others are injured by a freak wave at a beach in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (VOA)
Law and crime
- Dresden Green Vault burglary
- German authorities recover 31 royal jewellery items that were stolen from the Green Vault museum at Dresden Castle in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, in 2019. (AFP via South China Morning Post)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Tunisian parliamentary election
- Tunisians head to the polls to elect the members of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People. Opposition parties have called for a boycott of the election. (AFP via The East African)
- 2022 Fijian general election
- Fiji's election office projects that both the ruling FijiFirst and opposition People's Alliance parties will win 26 seats each in the 55-seat parliament, resulting in a deadlock. (DW)
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
- 2022 NFL season
- The Minnesota Vikings complete the largest comeback in NFL history against the Indianapolis Colts, winning 39–36 after a 0–33 deficit. The previous largest comeback occurred in January 1993 when the Buffalo Bills won 41–38 against the Houston Oilers after a 35–3 deficit. (CBS Sports)