News Headlines - 17 January 2014

▽NSA 'harvested around 200m text messages a day' - Telegraph

New Snowden leak reveals US spy agency gathered millions of text messages globally each day, with GCHQ also reported to have used NSA database to monitor British communications

▽Obama to Call for Overhaul of N.S.A.’s Phone Data Collection Program - NYTimes.com

President Obama will require intelligence agencies to obtain permission from a secret court before tapping into a vast trove of telephone data, but he will leave the data in the hands of the government for now, an administration official said.

▽BBC News - Japan WW2 soldier who refused to surrender Hiroo Onoda dies

A Japanese soldier who refused to surrender after World War Two ended and spent 29 years in the jungle has died aged 91 in Tokyo.
Hiroo Onoda remained in the jungle on Lubang Island near Luzon, in the Philippines, until 1974 because he did not believe that the war had ended.
He was finally persuaded to emerge after his ageing former commanding officer was flown in to see him.

▽BBC News - Google unveils 'smart contact lens' to measure glucose levels

Google has said it is testing a "smart contact lens" that can help measure glucose levels in tears.
It uses a "tiny" wireless chip and a "miniaturised" glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material.

▽CBBC Newsround - The Olympic Park in Sochi from the sky

In just 22 days the Sochi 2014 Olympics Winter Games will begin. The Olympic Park in Russia will be buzzing with athletes from all over the world, who will go head to head to win Gold. All eyes in the sporting world will be focussed here. This is the place where dreams will become reality! An aerial view from a helicopter shows the Fisht Olympic Stadium, the Shayba Arena, the Bolshoy Ice Dome, the Ice Cube Curling centre, the Adler Arena and the Iceberg Skating Palace.