News Headlines - 19 December 2014

▽Insight - Amazon's cloud business a harder sell in post-Snowden era | Reuters

This spring, Taser International Inc (TASR.O) won a small but high-profile contract to supply body cameras to the London police. But the deal nearly collapsed over one issue: where the video footage would be stored.
In the end, the deal survived only after Taser dropped Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) as the data storage provider for the year-long project. The fact that Amazon did not have a data centre in Britain was a deal breaker for British officials, according to Taser.

▽BBC News - Women could join British infantry by 2016

Women could be allowed to serve in British infantry units for the first time by 2016.
An Army review of the ban on women serving in close combat has concluded the change would not have an "adverse effect" on troop cohesion.

▽Lukashenko demands Belarusian govt trade with Russia for dollars, euro

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has ordered that the government demand that Russia pay for goods imported from Belarus in a hard currency.

▽Stonehenge discovery could rewrite British pre-history - Telegraph

Charcoal dug up from the ‘Blick Mead’ encampment, a mile and a half from Stonehenge, dates from around 4,000BC. It is thought the site was originally occupied by hunter gatherers returning to Britain after the Ice Age, when the country was still connected to the continent.
Experts say the discovery could re-write history in prehistoric Britain.

▽World’s oldest footballer Kazuyoshi Miura extends his contract in Japan | The Guardian

Former Japan international Kazuyoshi Miura has agreed to extend his contract for another season at second division side Yokohama FC, with his new deal taking the former Genoa striker past his 48th birthday.