Barack Obama speaks during a press conference at the OECD Conference Centre before leaving the Conference On Climate Change COP21. Photo / Getty
Barack Obama speaks during a press conference at the OECD Conference Centre before leaving the Conference On Climate Change COP21. Photo / Getty
The stories that happened around the world overnight.
• US President Barack Obama has focused at the Paris climate conference on the threat of rising sea levels to Pacific Island nations such as Kiribati, referring to his own island upbringing in Hawaii. France is to double investments in wind, solarand hydropower to 2 billion euros in its former African colonies and across Africa.
• Britain will send a naval fisheries patrol to the Antarctic in a joint mission with Australia and New Zealand as Japan sends a four-ship whaling fleet to the region. The HMS Protector will operate in the East Antarctic and Ross Sea. Sea Shepherd will only have a single ship instead of three this summer, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
• The Washington Post reports Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has fired his police chief Garry McCarthy after widespread criticism over how the authorities responded to a white police officer fatally shooting black teen Laquan McDonald last year.
• The BBC reports final report into the Air Asia crash last year was released and focused on both mechanical failure and pilot error.
• A US marine has been convicted of choking and drowning a transgender Filipina in a toilet bowl. Joseph Scott Pemberton killed Jennifer Laude in a Philippines motel after discovering she was transgender, the Washington Post reports.
• A decision on Oscar Pistorius' conviction is to be made tomorrow night NZT. The South African supreme court will inform the athlete whether his conviction for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp will be changed from manslaughter to murder, Reuters reports. Sky News has filmed inside Pistorius' jail cell. He is under house detention.
