News Headlines - 14 January 2015
▽RPT-Germany boasts balanced budget, resists euro zone stimulus | Reuters
Germany boasted on Tuesday it had balanced its budget for the first time since 1969 and pressed euro zone partners to follow its austere example rather than try to stimulate their stagnant economies with borrowing or central bank money-printing.
▽BBC News - The issue of depicting the Prophet Muhammad
French magazine Charlie Hebdo has published a new cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in its first issue since 12 people were killed during an attack on its offices in Paris by Islamist extremists who said they were "avenging the Prophet" after similar cartoons had appeared in the satirical publication.
The first Annual Antisemitism Barometer, conducted by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has revealed the shocking strength of antisemitic feeling in the UK, and it’s effect on British Jews.
▽ISS crew evacuated from US part of International Space Station after ammonia leak - The Independent
The crew of the International Space Station have been evacuated from the US part of the satellite after a toxic gas leak, according to reports.
▽Japan reveals record defence budget as tensions with China grow | theguardian.com
Japan has announced its biggest ever defence budget in response to China’s increasing military influence in the region and Beijing’s claims to a group of disputed islands administered by Tokyo.
