News Headlines - 19 February 2012

▽Dozens of inmates killed in gang fight in Mexican jail - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17091170
At least 44 people have died in a prison fight in northern Mexico.
Security officials said members of rival drug cartels confronted each other with stones and home-made weapons in the jail north of the city of Monterrey.
Some victims were strangled.

▽Former East German rights activist to be president: Merkel - AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i01oePu3TaluEkHCbHeQ1zZbb46g?docId=CNG.6ef3ef0f8ff2b7a81306fd0c8cadcac4.a31
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her coalition and the opposition had agreed Sunday to nominate former East German rights activist Joachim Gauck as a consensus candidate to become the country's next president.

▽Sarkozy hits at rival’s anti-banking claim - Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f74efc38-5b1e-11e1-a2b3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1ms1LFRtE
Nicolas Sarkozy has poured scorn on the anti-banking credentials of his socialist rival for the French presidency, accusing him of playing to different audiences and pretending to be “Margaret Thatcher in London and François Mitterrand in Paris”.

▽Study weighs savings of NHS competition - Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4c791912-5888-11e1-9f28-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1ms1LFRtE
Contentious moves to stimulate competition in the health service have been bolstered by a groundbreaking study of 2m patients that shows forcing NHS hospitals to compete with one another saves money and improves efficiency.

▽ExxonMobil fined 'record' ￡2.8m over carbon dioxide emissions - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-17089378
Energy giant ExxonMobil was fined ￡2.8m for failing to report carbon dioxide emissions from its Mosmorran chemical plant in Fife, it has emerged.