News Headlines - 08 January 2016
Transcripts detailing the telephone conversations between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton over a three-year period have just been released and some Twitter users have been busy dissecting some of their more memorable chats... The fake transcripts included conversations about the pair punching ham together, Mr Clinton going bowling and another time he started spinning plates.
▽Tourists injured in attack on Hurghada hotel, one assailant killed - Ahram Online
Knifemen stormed a hotel in Egypt's Hurghada on Friday evening, injuring a number of foreign tourists before security forces killed at least one of the assailants and ended the attack.
▽Renault-Nissan to introduce 10 self-driving vehicles by 2020 | Autos
The Renault-Nissan Alliance is entering the race to build autonomous cars with a plan to introduce 10 different models capable of temporarily relieving humans of their driving duties on highways and city streets.
▽Brazil inflation shoots above 10% - FT.com
Brazil’s inflation rate shot above 10 per cent in 2015, missing the central bank’s target for the first time since 2003 as the country struggles to emerge from one of its worst political and economic crises in a century.
▽Mexico recaptures drug cartel kingpin El Chapo after humiliating prison escape | The Guardian
Mexico’s president Enrique Peña Nieto announced the recapture of cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, whose escape in July from a maximum-security prison humiliated the country’s federal government and exposed corruption in the country’s prison system.
