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France remembers gunmens’ victims –
Nearly a quarter of a million people held marches in France on Saturday to condemn the attacks by extremist gunmen on France that took place on Wednesday 7th January 2015 killing 17 people including 12 at the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo. Large crowds gathered in Paris, Orleans, Nice, Pau, Toulouse and Nantes, with people holding banners that read “I am against racism”, “unity”, or “Je suis Charlie” – the latter a reference to the magazine.

#JeSuisCharlie top hashtag –
#JeSuisCharlie has become one of the most popular hashtags ever used on Twitter with between 4 and 5 millions tweets containing the phrase in 4 days.

Dart attack –
Rioting fans in fancy dress brawled and threw chairs and tables, stopping play at an Australian darts competition. Dutchman Michael ‘Mighty Mike’ van Gerwen was playing Australia’s Simon ‘The Wizard’ Whitlock in an invitational tournament at the Etihad Stadium in Melbourne when chaos broke out. Images show a man dressed as Batman’s sidekick Robin wrestling with an English knight, while security guards try to calm the situation down.

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• • A female suicide bomber, believed to be aged around 10 years old, kills herself and 19 others, possibly against her will, at a market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Nigeria. (Wall Street Journal) (BBC)
• Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
  • A suicide attack by al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda’s official affiliate in Syria) at a café in Tripoli, Lebanon, kills at least seven people.(Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the PakistanNational Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, results in at least 57 dead and scores injured. (The News)

Law and crime

• A bomb threat on Tigerair Flight 539 at Melbourne Airport, Victoria, Australia, causes disruptions for passengers and airlines throughout the airport. (News.com.au)
• A shooting spree in Moscow, Idaho, U.S., leaves three dead and one injured. After a high-speed chase on Highway 195 ten miles away in the neighboring state of Washington, Pullman police arrest the suspect, John Lee. (AP)
• A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bileleaving at least 56 dead and 146 hospitailized. (FOX8LIVE)

Science and technology

• SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as part of boosting its Dragon spacecraft into space for a Monday arrival at the ISS in the SpaceX CRS-5 resupply mission. However, an experimental recovery attempt of the first stage fails when it crash-lands on a floating platform possibly due to insufficient hydraulic fluid, resulting in damage to the platform. The state of the destruction of the launch vehicle is publically unknown.(Space.com),(Twitter)
• The Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District temporarily closes the Golden Gate Bridge until Monday to install a $30 million moveable barrier between opposite traffic flows. (SF Gate)

Sports

• In American football, Tom Brady of the New England Patriots breaks the National Football League records for career postseason yardage and touchdown passes in the AFC Divisional playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens won by the Patriots 35–31, advancing them to the AFC Championship game. (Sports Illustrated)

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