News Headlines - 31 December 2014

▽London New Year’s Eve fireworks made ticket-only for first time | The Guardian

Exactly a year ago, an estimated 500,000 people crammed into a small section of central London to view the New Year’s Eve firework display, resulting in crowded conditions that the mayor, Boris Johnson, said had made the free event “untenable”.

▽BBC News - Tony Blair says Labour 'left-wing' warning 'misinterpreted'

Tony Blair has insisted he is fully behind Ed Miliband despite appearing to suggest Labour risks being too left-wing to win the general election.

▽Palestinians Set to Seek Redress in a World Court - NYTimes.com

President Mahmoud Abbas moved on Wednesday to have the Palestinian Authority join the International Criminal Court, opening a new front in the Middle East conflict that could lead to war-crimes prosecutions of Israeli officials and that risks severe sanctions from Washington and Jerusalem.

▽Scientists play God inside Matrix-like ‘virtual universe’ | Metro News

For the first time, two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers have created a virtual universe, in which galaxies similar to those observed by astronomers grow and evolve.
Two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers – the ‘Cosmology Machine’ at the University of Durham and ‘Curie’ in Paris – were used to conduct the simulations, which took several months to run.

▽Has Formula One ace Jenson Button married fiancee Jessica Michibata? | Daily Mail Online

They got engaged in February after five years of dating and it appears as if Jenson Button has married Jessica Micibata just before 2014 comes to an end.