News Headlines - 04 January 2014

▽Iraqi police say city center of Fallujah falls fully into hands of al-Qaida-linked group | Fox News

The head of police in Iraq's Anbar province says the city center of Fallujah has fallen completely into the hands of fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State in Iraq and Levant.
Hadi Razeij, head of the Anbar police force, said police had left the city center entirely and had positioned themselves on the edge of town.

▽Nicaragua: Canal project will face 1 year delay - KansasCity.com

Nicaragua's government says the construction of the nation's inter-ocean canal will start a year later than planned because the waterway's path has yet to be defined.
The president of the canal authority, Manuel Coronel Kautz, says the project will not begin until 2015 because the canal's route approval comes in the third quarter of this year. Authorities had said construction could begin in 2014.

▽Facebook mined private messages to advertisers, lawsuit claims - Telegraph

Facebook is being sued over claims it mines users’ private messages to advertisers without their consent.
According to a complaint filed in California, the social network “misleads users into believing they have a secure, private mechanism for communication, when in fact Facebook... mines user data and profits from those data by sharing them with third parties”.

▽Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing on Bronx Highway - NYTimes.com

A single-engine plane made an emergency landing on the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx on Saturday afternoon, officials said. No one was seriously injured.
The plane landed in the northbound lane of the expressway around 3:20 p.m. near East 233rd Street, fire officials said.
The plane, which had flown from Danbury, Conn., on a tour of the Statue of Liberty, landed in the northbound lane around 3:20 p.m. near East 233rd Street, officials said. The pilot and his two women passengers were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with minor injuries.

▽ITN News » More stormy weather to hit UK

South-West England, Wales and Scotland have been hit by more floods, as high tides, strong winds and heavy rain create storm surges.
Hundreds of homes have been flooded from Cornwall to Scotland, with miles of coastline battered and roads and fields across the country left under water.