Sunday

January 11, 2015

Armed conflicts and attacks

Charlie Hebdo shooting

Thousands of police and military personnel prepare to secure a Paris unity rally with up to a million people expected to attend. (Daily Mail)

An arson attack on the German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which published cartoons from Charlie Hebdo, causes no injuries but leads to two arrests. (Reuters via DNA)

Boko Haram

More female suicide bombers, this time two, and again each believed to be around 10 years old, kill themselves and three others at a market in the northeastern city of Potiskum, Nigeria. (Reuters via News24)

Disasters and accidents

The death toll from the Karachi traffic accident rises to 62. (Indian Express)

Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501

Divers retrieve the flight data recorder from the crashed jet. (AP)