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• A fire at a bar during New Year's Eve celebrations in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, kills at least 40 people.
• French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot (pictured) dies at the age of 91.
• Thirteen people are killed when a train derails in Oaxaca, Mexico.
• Israel becomes the first country to officially recognise Somaliland as an independent state.
• Nasry Asfura is elected president of Honduras, after one month of controversy surrounding the vote counting process.