News Headlines - 19 March 2013

▽French Budget Minister Resigns Amid Tax Probe - WSJ.com

A minister in President François Hollande's government stepped down Tuesday after French prosecutors said they had launched a formal investigation into allegations made by a news website of money laundering and tax evasion against the cabinet member.

▽Video: Malala Yousafzai back at school for first time since Taliban shooting - Telegraph

Malala Yousafzai starts school in Birmingham, five months after she was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan.

▽BBC News - Romania and Bulgaria immigration: 'No idea' on numbers

Ministers do not know how many Romanians and Bulgarians will come to the UK when restrictions are relaxed, the communities secretary has said. Eric Pickles said he has no confidence in figures, published on his department's own website, predicting about 13,000 will arrive.

▽Killer of Irish woman in Japan gets light sentence - The Independent

Tokyo District Court found 19-year-old Richard Hinds, an American musician, guilty of strangling Ms Furlong, 21, to death in May last year. But because he was technically a minor when he was arrested, the court was only able to sentence him to the minimum of five and a maximum of 10 years in jail, with labour.

▽British woman 'jumped from India hotel to escape sexual assault' - The Independent

A British holidaymaker in India was injured after she jumped from a third-floor hotel balcony in the historic tourist town of Agra to escape what she feared would be a sexual assault by a group of men, police said today. The woman reportedly leaped from her room to the balcony below her after the owner reportedly tried to force his way into her room to offer her “a free oil body massage”.