World: Iran, the US, and six world powers have reached an agreement to temporarily freeze much of Iran’s nuclear development program. The deal goes into effect Jan. 20. Iran’s stock of weapons grade enriched uranium would be diluted so it can’t be used for bombs. But Iran can still enrich low-level uranium and keep its production centrifuges.

  As part of the deal Iran gets $550 million of its $4.2 billion frozen by international sanctions.

> Protesters in Bangkok have built barricades and blocked strategic road junctions in the beginning of an effort to oust the government before elections on February 2. Protesters want to replace the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra because they say she is merely a puppet for her exiled brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was thrown out by the military in 2006.

Wheels: Volkswagen announced a plan to build a sport utility for the North American market and invest $4 billion in the US to do it. The company says it wants to sell a million Volkswagens and Audis in the country by 2018.

>Ford motors today introduces a new F-150 truck with a body made mostly of aluminum. It takes 700 pounds off the weight of Ford’s 5,000-pound workhorse, increasing fuel efficiency. The F-150 and 250 have been the best selling vehicles in the US for 32 years. Aluminum costs more than steel, but Ford says it will keep the price of the trucks in their current range.

World: Swedish doctors have successfully transplanted wombs into nine women who were born without a uterus or lost it to cancer. The next step for the women is to try to become pregnant and give birth. This has been tried before, and failed to produce babies, but the Swedish effort is said to be the most advanced.

Go Figure: Eighteen-year-old Tracie Gold won her first national figure skating title and a spot on the Olympic team Saturday night in Boston. She’s from Newton, just outside Boston. In the ever-subjective standards of the sport, Ashley Wagner was chosen over Mirai Nagasu for the Olympic team despite falling twice in a routine even she said was embarrassing. Wagner said, “I am grateful that my federation was able to look beyond one really bad performance and see that athlete that I’m capable of being.”

 In the men’s competition, Jeremy Abbott won his fourth national title, and, of course, a trip to the Olympics.

The Obit Page: Sam Berns, the Massachusetts boy who had the advanced-aging syndrome progeria, and who was the subject of an HBO documentary, has died at age 17.  Children with the syndrome live an average 13 years.

In the Unlikely Event: A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Branson, Mo., last night landed instead at the wrong airport with a shorter runway seven miles away. The FAA is investigating.

Golden Globes: “12 Years a Slave” won the Golden Globe for best motion picture, drama, last night. “American Hustle” won three awards. Matthew McConaughey was named best actor in a drama for “Dallas Buyers Club,” and Cate Blanchett won best actress in a drama for Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine.” The Globes are seen as somewhat of a predictor for what will happen at the Oscars.

  Put on Your Red Dress: Berenice Bejo, Gimbattista Valli, Kristen Connolly, Lupita Nyong’o, and Emily Watson, all in red. We don’t know who several of them are, but they looked good.

  Tina Fey on “Gravity”: “It’s a movie about how George Clooney would rather float away and die than spend another minute with a woman his own age.”

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