News Headlines - 15 December 2013

▽Embassy says Japan diplomat stabbed in Yemen - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Assailants stabbed a Japanese diplomat in Yemen as the victim drove his car in the capital Sanaa, scene of a recent spate of attacks on foreigners, the embassy said. The consul and second secretary at the embassy suffered five stab wounds in the Sunday morning attack as he drove through the neighbourhood of Hadda, an embassy spokesman said. It was unclear if the attack was an attempt to kidnap the diplomat.

▽Syria: children killed as Aleppo hit by worst bombing in six months - Telegraph

Syrian government helicopters dropped barrels laden with explosives on residential districts of Aleppo on Sunday, killing dozens of people, including 16 children. In the worst bombing raids against the city in more than six months, local residents said the attack targeted at least nine different parts of the rebel held city, the TNT decimating shops, roads and entire apartment blocks.

▽BBC News - Nelson Mandela buried at Qunu ancestral home

Nelson Mandela's body has been laid to rest in a family plot, after political and religious leaders paid tribute to South Africa's first black president at a state funeral service.

▽British Library uploads more than a million public domain images to Flickr (Wired UK)

More than 300 years of illustrations from the archives of the British Library have been uploaded to Flickr Commons, and now the organisation wants help sifting through them.

▽BBC News - Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia star, dies aged 81

Actor Peter O'Toole, who starred in Sir David Lean's 1962 film classic Lawrence of Arabia, died on Saturday aged 81, his agent has said. He was being treated at London's Wellington hospital after a long illness, his agent added.