The U.S. has volunteered to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons aboard a ship, in order to meet an international deadline that would prevent a military strike on the war-torn country.

Weapons would be destroyed using hydrolysis on a U.S. vessel at a yet-to-be-determined Mediterranean port, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Saturday. OPCW spokesman Michael Luhan declined to specify which vessel was to be used.

The plan is to destroy 500 tons of chemical weapons, including nerve agents, Al Jazeera reports. The operation is a part of an international deal to meet a Dec. 31  deadline to rid Syria from chemical weapons. Syria’s civil war has lasted three years, killing more than 100,000 people.

[Al Jazeera]

Jimmy Fallon clearly loves to sing, and this week he got some help from actress Rashida Jones and actual-singer Carrie Underwood. On Thursday’s episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the trio performed holiday-themed versions of the year’s most popular songs. They parodied everyone from Robin Thicke and Daft Punk to Lorde and the Lumineers, singing about Thanksgiving food comas, Hannukah celebrations, and Black Friday shopping nightmares.

But Carrie Underwood might have taken the proverbial cake with her solo rendition of Miley Cyrus’s Wrecking Ball, singing, “You made me cook a Butterball / And then a green bean casserole / And all you did was sit and watch football / And ignore all of your family.”

Watch the highly entertaining (and seemingly never-ending) sequence of pop parodies above.

A beloved dog named “world’s ugliest dog,” which became the subject of a children’s book, died Thanksgiving morning.

Elwood, a hairless Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix except for a tuft of white hair atop his head, died unexpectedly, according to his owner Karen Quigley. The famed dog was crowned “world’s ugliest dog” in 2007 at the Marin-Sonoma County Fair in California, where he quickly gained fans and inspired the children’s book Everyone Loves Elwood.

Quigley said Elwood had been battling health issues recently, but was doing well as of late.

[AP]