News Headlines - 02 January 2014

▽Fiat, in Deal With Union, Will Buy Rest of Chrysler - NYTimes.com

Fiat said on Wednesday that it had reached an agreement to take full ownership of Chrysler in a $4.35 billion deal with the United Automobile Workers retiree health care fund.
Fiat and the U.A.W. trust have shared ownership since Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy in 2009. The deal to buy out the trust’s 41 percent stake will make Fiat the world’s seventh-largest automaker.

▽BBC News - Migrants spark German coalition rift amid welfare angst

Conservative Bavarian allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel say extra measures are needed to prevent "benefit tourism" in the EU.
But the foreign ministry, now run by the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), warned that questioning freedom of movement was "harmful to Europe".

▽Body of Former Rwandan Spymaster Is Found in Johannesburg Hotel - NYTimes.com

The South African police said on Thursday they had opened a murder investigation into the death of an exiled former spy chief from Rwanda and critic of President Paul Kagame, who was found dead in a hotel room with signs of possible strangulation.

▽JK Rowling lawyer fined for outing her as crime novelist - FT.com

A lawyer who disclosed to his wife’s best friend that a little-known detective novel had been written by Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been fined ￡1,000.

▽BBC News - The allure of abandoned Tube stations

The New Year's Day episode of Sherlock included a plot line about abandoned London Underground stations. The eerie empty platforms and booking offices have enthralled photographers.