Details have emerged about some of the 15 people killed in New Orleans on New Year's Day. Also: Syria's new Islamist-led administration outlines changes to education, and huge footprints reveal how dinosaurs got around
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This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday 2 January.
These are our main stories.
The first victims of the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans are named.
Syria's new Islamist led administration has updated the school curriculum, prompting concerns in some communities.
Forty years on from the deadly gas leak at an Indian factory, toxic waste is finally removed from the site.
Also in this podcast, El Salvador's government records a record low homicide rate.
But all is not as it seems.
And I was basically clearing the clay and I was hitting a hump and.
I thought it's just an abnormality in the ground.
But then it got to another about 3 meters long.
It was hump again.
What a set of huge footprints tells us about how dinosaurs got around.
Details are emerging of some of the 15 people killed in New Orleans as they celebrated the New Year.
A truck was driven at high speed into crowds before the driver was shot dead by police.
The FBI has identified the attacker as Shamshud Din Jabbar, a US citizen and army veteran from Texas.
The families of some victims have released their names before the authorities complete post mortem examinations.
Just before we recorded this podcast, I got an update from our correspondent in New Orleans, Tom Bateman.
I asked him what's behind speculation that Shamshud Din Jabbar wasn't the only suspect involved.