1. Donald Trump is expected to tap Senator Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state and Republican Representative Mike Waltz to be his national security adviser.

2. The Israeli military carried out at least five airstrikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut today.

3. Germany is set to hold fresh elections on February 23, eleven weeks after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition.

4. EU has supplied Ukraine with more than 980,000 shells for the war with Russia and plans to pass the 1 million mark by the end of this year.

5. In the last two weeks of October, Indian flights and airports received more than 500 bomb threats.

6. Bitcoin stood on the verge of $90,000today, riding a wave of euphoria for the past week.