Trump said Friday's sentencing should be paused while he argues to the Supreme Court his conviction should be overturned due to presidential immunity.

President-elect Trump appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to put off sentencing scheduled for Friday on his conviction for falsifying business records in the New York hush money case. And the Justice Department said it will release a portion of the special counsel's report on the Trump election interference case.

Foreign secretary David Lammy has played down US president-elect Donald Trump's threats to acquire Greenland. The Arctic territory is controlled by Denmark but is also home to a US military base and also has oil drilling and mineral mining potential.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday (January 8) that incoming president Donald Trump's idea to make Greenland part of the United States was "not a good one," at a press conference in Paris with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot,