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French police have foiled a terror attack. Photo / AP

Your wrap of the world stories that broke overnight.

1. French police have foiled a terror attack on police and military in the Orleans region, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said today. Two men, 20 and 24, were arrested on Sunday and are being questioned. The BBC said both are thought to have had contact with another Frenchman in Syria. Cazeneuve said 10 attacks had been foiled so far this year in France. The Daily Telegraph reports Germany is searching for 12 migrants who entered the country using the same passports as attackers in Paris last month.

2. A day after SpaceX successfully landed its launched rocket, owner Elon Musk says it "quite dramatically improves my confidence that a city on Mars is possible". Watching it live, he said there was a sonic boom which he initially thought was the rocket exploding. The savings of being able to reuse a rocket would be huge. Musk says the Falcon 9 costs US$60 million to build and the fuel costs US$200,000.

3. How many kilometres would it take to photograph all your Facebook friends? The Washington Post reports that a photographer has spent a year taking pictures of some of his 738 Facebook friends. St Louis photographer Corey Woodruff at the end of 2014 asked friends if they wanted their photo taken. He completed 96 portraits in the first month and is 310 portraits on. In October he made a 16,630km US perimeter road trip to visit Facebook friends in the Midwest.

4. Half of American voters would be "embarrassed" if Donald Trump became US president while just under a quarter would be "proud" to have the Republican frontrunner in charge, a Quinnipiac University poll says. The embarrassment factor was higher among women (60 per cent) than men (40 per cent) and among 18-34 year olds (73 per cent).

5. Over a million migrants have reached Europe this year - that's nearly five times as many people as those who reached the continent last year. The International Organisation for Migration says the Greek island of Lesbos is the main gateway. A total of 1,005,504 people had arrived by December 21 and 816,752 of them landed in Greece.

6. Iraqi troops say they are advancing into the centre of Ramadi in a bid to retake the city from Isis (Islamic State). "Our forces are advancing towards the government complex in the centre," a military spokesman, Sabah al-Numan, said. "The fighting is in the neighbourhoods around the complex." Isis captured the city in May.

7. The Washington Post reports that the New York Department of Consumer Affairs has discovered that items marketed to girls and women cost about 7 per cent on average more than similar products targeted at boys and men. For example a red Radio Flyer scooter for boys cost US$24.99 and a pink one for girls cost US$49.99 at Target. The department compared nearly 800 products with male and female versions - almost identical except for gender packaging. A shark helmet was US$14.99 whereas a unicorn helmet was US$27.99 for instance.

8. A German court has ordered a man to destroy intimate photos and videos of his ex-partner because they violate her rights to privacy. The Federal Court ruled the man should no longer possess the naked photos and sex tapes, even if he had no intention of sharing them, the BBC reports. The court said the woman's consent to the images ended when the relationship did. The former couple were arguing about whether the man should delete the items.

9. Lottery ticket-holders in one Spanish town have won 640 million euros. People in Roquetas de Mar won first prize in the El Gordo (The Fat One) lottery. The winning numbers - 79140 - appeared on 1600 tickets in the town. Each are now worth 400,000 euros. The town has an unemployment rate of over 30 per cent.

10. A cat has been drawn into a diplomatic spat between Russia and Poland. Moscow is expelling a Polish correspondent because Poland expelled a Russian journalist, the BBC reports. In a message on Facebook, the Russian Foreign Ministry addressed Waclaw Radziwinowicz's cat saying: "Don't worry ... we'll look after you". The Polish journalist was unamused by the joke saying: "Marusia is going with me to Poland".