News Headlines - 17 January 2011

▽Tony Blair 'misled' Commons over legal advice on war in Iraq - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8265001/Tony-Blair-misled-Commons-over-legal-advice-on-war-in-Iraq.html
Tony Blair misled Parliament by claiming that Britain could legally attack Iraq in the face of United Nations opposition despite being given clear advice to the contrary, new evidence suggests.

▽Haitians ponder the return, after 25 years, of Baby Doc - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/17/haitians-ponder-return-baby-doc
The motives of the notorious playboy and dictator, who was exiled in 1986, remain unclear

▽Inflation is on the rise - and it's going to get worse, say economists - Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348108/Inflation-rise-going-worse-say-economists.html?ITO=1490
Britain will be hit by a new setback on inflation today – and experts warn that the cost of living will continue to soar.
Official figures are expected to show that the annual rate of inflation stayed above 3 per cent in December because of the rapidly rising price of essentials such as food and fuel.
But economists fear it will be driven even higher in the coming months, up to 4 per cent or more, by the VAT increase after New Year and rocketing oil prices.

▽Despite Anxiety Over Leave at Apple, a Deep Bench of Leadership - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/technology/18cook.html?src=busln
The sudden decision by the company’s chief executive to take a medical leave for the third time in less than a decade raises anxieties about the leadership of the company he helped found more than three decades ago. It also puts the spotlight again on several senior executives who have been helping Mr. Jobs run the company, in particular Timothy D. Cook, the chief operating officer, who will take over day-to-day operations during Mr. Jobs’s leave.

▽New bid for GW electrification to Wales - Railnews
http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/general/2011/01/17-new-bid-for-gw-electrification.html
A GROUP of political and business leaders in South Wales is urging the Department for Transport to extend the electrification of the Great Western Main Line to Bristol, Cardiff and Swansea...
This will hinge on the eventual fate of the delayed Intercity Express Project. Hitachi was named as preferred IEP bidder almost two years ago, but the programme has stalled since then, partly because of economic problems but also because the extent of future electrification is still under review.