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Future arrests –
A former trader at Royal Bank of Scotland becomes the first UK banker to be arrested on suspicion of rigging the £3.5 trillion a day foreign exchange market. Six banks, including RBS and HSBC, were fined a total of £2.6 billion by UK and US regulators last month for the role they played in fixing the futures market.

Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry –
Sir Elton John and David Furnish have married at a ceremony, 9 years to the day after they had a civil partnership ceremony in Windsor’s Guildhall. David and Victoria Beckham, musician Ed Sheeran and actor David Walliams were among the guests at the wedding at the couple’s house, also in Windsor.
Elton John

Billie Whitelaw dies –
Actress Billie Whitelaw has died aged 82. Her film career started in 1954 in The Sleeping Tiger and last appeared in 2007 in the iconic Hot Fuzz alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Sony hack an act of terrorism? –
President Barack Obama says the US is considering putting North Korea back on its list of terrorism sponsors after the hacking of Sony Pictures.

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Billie Whitelaw films [from Wikipedia]

• The Fake (1953)
• The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
• Mr. Arkadin (Voice Only) (1955)
• Small Hotel (1957)
• Miracle in Soho (1957)
• Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
• Time Out for Peggy (TV, 1958-59)
• Breakout (1959)
• Bobbikins (1959)
• The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
• Hell Is a City (1960)
• Make Mine Mink (1960)
• Payroll (1961)
• No Love for Johnnie (1961)
• The Comedy Man (1964)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV) (1968)
• Charlie Bubbles (1967)
• Twisted Nerve (1968)
• The Adding Machine (1969)
• Leo the Last (1970)
• Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
• Gumshoe (1971)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Eagle in a Cage (1972)
• Follow the Yellow Brick Road (TV; 1972)
• Night Watch (1973)
• Napoleon and Love (TV: 1974)
• The Omen (1976)
• Space: 1999 (TV:1976)
• The Water Babies (1978)
• Leopard in the Snow (1978)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
• Private Schulz (1980)
• Tangiers (1982)
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982)
• The Dark Crystal (1982) (voice)
• Jamaica Inn (1983 TV Serial)
• Camille (1984) (TV)
• The Chain (1984)
• Terror in the Aisles (1984)
• Shadey (1985)
• The Secret Garden (1987)
• Maurice (1987)
• The Dressmaker (1988)
• The Krays (1990)
• Freddie as F.R.O.7 (1992) (voice)
• Skallagrigg (1994)
• Jane Eyre (1996)
• Merlin (1998)
• The Lost Son (1999)
• The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)

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Arts and culture

• British singer-songwriter Elton John converts his domestic partnership with filmmaker David Furnish to marriage. (FOX News)

International Relations

• Egypt temporarily reopens its border crossing with Gaza, which had been closed since October, until 4 pm Monday.(Ahram Online)
• Due to avian influenza in the United States (Oregon), South Korea suspends US imports of poultry. (Reuters via Times of India)

Law and crime

• After an eight-year informal moratorium on the death penalty, Jordan executes 11 men. (Al Jazeera)
• China has detained more than thirty thousand people within two months for pornography and gambling. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Beji Caid Essebsi of the secularist Nidaa Tounes party wins Tunisia’s presidential election. (Al Arabiya English)

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