'Thousands' Demonstrate against Iranian Government

Some people have been chanting slogans against the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Also: funeral prayers have been said in Egypt for the eight Coptic Christians and a Muslim policeman killed by a gunman at a church and a Christian-owned shop in Helwan, south of the capital, Cairo, and a group of Polish climbers have set off on a long-planned expedition, hoping to be the first to climb K2 in the winter.

(Photo: Protestors in Kermanshah; credit: Reuters)