## [2013-01-20](/feed/2013/01/20/index.md)

##### NASA
### [A NASA spacecraft, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution. ](/feed/2013/01/20/a-nasa-spacecraft-mars-reconnaissance-orbiter-is-providing-new-evidence-of-a-wet-underground-environment-on-mars-that.md)
##### Austrian conscription referendum, 2013
### [Preliminary results show Austrians have voted by a wide margin to retain compulsory military service. ](/feed/2013/01/20/preliminary-results-show-austrians-have-voted-by-a-wide-margin-to-retain-compulsory-military-service.md)
##### Austria
### [Austria holds a national referendum, choosing between keeping the current system of a conscripted army and optional social service for young men, or introducing a professional army and a voluntary community service. ](/feed/2013/01/20/austria-holds-a-national-referendum-choosing-between-keeping-the-current-system-of-a-conscripted-army-and-optional-soci.md)
##### Germany
### [In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-left opponents win a narrow victory in Lower Saxony state election. ](/feed/2013/01/20/in-germany-chancellor-angela-merkel-s-centre-left-opponents-win-a-narrow-victory-in-lower-saxony-state-election.md)
##### India
### [Indian Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs on Thursday decided to raise the cap on subsidised liquefied petroleum gas to nine cylinders per household in a year from existing six. ](/feed/2013/01/20/indian-cabinet-committee-on-political-affairs-on-thursday-decided-to-raise-the-cap-on-subsidised-liquefied-petroleum-gas.md)
##### Rahul Gandhi
### [Rahul Gandhi is appointed as the vice president of the Indian National Congress. ](/feed/2013/01/20/rahul-gandhi-is-appointed-as-the-vice-president-of-the-indian-national-congress.md)
##### Second inauguration
### [The second inauguration of Barack Obama as the President of the United States takes place in the Blue Room of the White House. ](/feed/2013/01/20/the-second-inauguration-of-barack-obama-as-the-president-of-the-united-states-takes-place-in-the-blue-room-of-the-white.md)
##### Drug lord
### [A drug lord named Mario Smith Pomare, who had long been wanted by the police in Colombia, is arrested at his villa on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. ](/feed/2013/01/20/a-drug-lord-named-mario-smith-pomare-who-had-long-been-wanted-by-the-police-in-colombia-is-arrested-at-his-villa-on-th.md)
##### Shoots and kills a family, with three children
### [A 15-year-old male shoots and kills a family, with three children, at a house near Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. A suspect is later apprehended. ](/feed/2013/01/20/a-15-year-old-male-shoots-and-kills-a-family-with-three-children-at-a-house-near-albuquerque-new-mexico-united-state.md)
##### State Department
### [The United States Department of State issues a travel warning to United States citizens for the country of Algeria in response to the In Aménas hostage crisis. ](/feed/2013/01/20/the-united-states-department-of-state-issues-a-travel-warning-to-united-states-citizens-for-the-country-of-algeria-in-re.md)
##### France
### [A French sailor who had spent three days adrift in a life raft in the Southern Ocean off the coast of Tasmania in Australia is rescued by the cruise ship MV "Orion". ](/feed/2013/01/20/a-french-sailor-who-had-spent-three-days-adrift-in-a-life-raft-in-the-southern-ocean-off-the-coast-of-tasmania-in-austra.md)
##### Prokopyevsky District
### [At least four miners are killed and four others trapped after a fire at a mine in Prokopyevsky District, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. ](/feed/2013/01/20/at-least-four-miners-are-killed-and-four-others-trapped-after-a-fire-at-a-mine-in-prokopyevsky-district-kemerovo-oblast.md)
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### [The death toll has risen to at least 48 hostages killed during a four-day siege at a gas plant, raising the number of militants and their captives killed to at least 80. Algerian troops had found the bodies of 25 hostages at the complex on Sunday. ](/feed/2013/01/20/the-death-toll-has-risen-to-at-least-48-hostages-killed-during-a-four-day-siege-at-a-gas-plant-raising-the-number-of-mi.md)
##### Junta troops
### [Burmese troops launch an attack on a strategic hilltop held by rebel Kachin forces in the north of the country, breaking a government ceasefire. ](/feed/2013/01/20/burmese-troops-launch-an-attack-on-a-strategic-hilltop-held-by-rebel-kachin-forces-in-the-north-of-the-country-breaking.md)
##### Islamists
### [Islamists flee the town of Diabaly, Mali, after repeated French airstrikes. The government of Mali now says that they control the city. ](/feed/2013/01/20/islamists-flee-the-town-of-diabaly-mali-after-repeated-french-airstrikes-the-government-of-mali-now-says-that-they-co.md)
##### Civil war
### [Syrian refugees fleeing the violence from the Syrian civil war are gunned down by the Syrian Army while trying to cross the Jordanian border. ](/feed/2013/01/20/syrian-refugees-fleeing-the-violence-from-the-syrian-civil-war-are-gunned-down-by-the-syrian-army-while-trying-to-cross.md)
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