News Headlines - 06 January 2014

▽German Chancellor Angela Merkel injured in skiing accident | DW.DE | 06.01.2014

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been injured in a cross-country skiing accident. The injury has forced her to cancel a number of meetings and will work from home for much of the next few weeks.

▽Freed Russian Oligarch Leaves Germany for Switzerland With Family - NYTimes.com

Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the former oil tycoon recently freed after a decade in prison in Russia, has left Berlin and arrived by train in Switzerland, where he and his wife will oversee their teenage sons’ return to school, according to a statement from Mr. Khodorkovsky’s aides, who called the trip “a family matter.”

▽Sea Shepherd Locates Japanese Whaling Fleet

Anti-whaling activists with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society announced that they have caught up with Japan's whaling fleet near Antarctica.
Sea Shepherd said on Monday it had found all five Japanese vessels in the Southern Ocean and had photographic evidence that showed three minke whales had been killed and were being cut up on the factory ship Nisshin Maru. The group also claimed to have information about a fourth whale having been killed.

▽US Gun Manufacturer Refuses Sale to Pakistan

A U.S. gun manufacturer has turned down a multi-million dollar opportunity to sell arms to Pakistan, citing concerns the weapons would be used against American soldiers.

▽BBC News - Blackadder star Sir Tony Robinson in Michael Gove WW1 row

A row has erupted between Sir Tony Robinson and Michael Gove after the education secretary claimed "left-wing academics" were using Blackadder "to feed myths" about World War One.
Sir Tony, who played Baldrick in the BBC series, said Mr Gove was essentially "slagging off teachers".