Uncertainty surrounding Nigeria's presidential election in January may give some investors pause.
An election in December may give Taiwan's president, Chen Shui-bian, control of parliament, to go with the enhanced mandate he personally won in March.
Poor prospects for the resumption of meaningful peace talks aiming at a two-state solution between Israel and the PLO mean pressure is likely to mount, though new Israeli elections in March may give pause for thought.
A New York case decided in November may give some guidance to other courts considering the question, if not to the Clarence Thomas-Antonin Scalia duo for whom innocence is less important than finality.
He said the pope's first apostolic exhortation, released in November, may give clues to his approach during the pilgrimage, especially the importance the pontiff is placing on Christian-Muslim relations in a time of increasing religious strife and a growing exodus of Christians from the Middle East.
The sustained success of Bridget Jones's Baby this past month may have given eOne some concern, given the female skew on both titles.
Darren Clarke's victory at the Open in July may have given hope to Daly and his generation, but it would be fair to say the Northern Irishman's win, while worthy, was an outlier.
This year, the release of The Force Awakens on 17 December may have given distributors pause when considering 1 January, and The Hateful Eight, The Revenant, Room, Creed, The Big Short and Spotlight were all slated for later in January.
Adding the foreign ministry to his responsibilities, after losing Renato Ruggiero in January, may have given Mr Berlusconi too much to do.In any event, the prime minister and his team have been unduly timid and tentative.
