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Police shot and killed a man with a knife in the foyer of the Quakers Hill police station in northwest Sydney.  "There is no indication that this is terrorist-related, but why the man came there and why the confrontation occurred, at this stage we just don't know," said Assistant Police Commissioner Denis Clifford.  The episode recalled the tragedy in Parramatta when officers were forced to shoot and kill a 15-year old boy with terrorist links after he killed a civilian police employee; and the similar shooting in Melbourne in September 2014.

China is making financial markets nervous by posting its slowest economic growth in 25 years:  The Chinese economy grew by 6.9 percent in 2015, which most nations would be extremely happy to say.  But it's down from 7.3 percent in 2014, and short of Beijing unofficial target for the year.  And when the world's second biggest economy sneezes, the rest of the planet might catch a cold.  "The economy is in the process of stabilization, but it hasn't stabilized yet," said CITIC Bank International chief economist Liao Qun in Hong Kong. 

Amnesty International is accusing major electronics firms - including Apple, Samsung, and Sony - of failing to do their utmost to stop child labor in their supply chains.  The rights group and African Resources Watch (Afrewatch) investigated and found children as young as seven years old toiling in the Cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  The DRC produces 50 percent of the world's Cobalt, which is an essential component of Lithium Ion batteries.  "The glamorous shop displays and marketing of state of the art technologies are a stark contrast to the children carrying bags of rocks, and miners in narrow man-made tunnels risking permanent lung damage," said Amnesty's Mark Dummett.  Apple, Samsung, and Sony are denying the allegations, claiming that they di police the supply chain.

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos signed a new law imposing tougher punishments on those convicted of acid attacks.  The sentences for such crimes will now range from 12 to 50 years in prison.  Several victims of acid attacks joined Santos for the signing ceremony, including Natalia Ponce de Leon for whom the law is named.  "The new law helps remedy a big legal loophole and will help prevent the absurd attacks that so many of us have suffered," said Ms. Ponce.  Most of the victims of acid attacks are women, and most of the perpetrators are men.  The motives vary, but jealousy and spurned advances lead the list.

Here's a guy swimming against the tide of his peers:  Senegal President Macky Sall is proposing cutting his own term from seven to five years, as part of a series of constitutional reforms to strengthen democracy.  He's also suggesting setting a political mandatory retirement age at 75.  At least five other presidents in Africa have been doing the opposite, changing their constitutions to allow for extra terms in office and lengthen their hold on power - in Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, and Uganda.

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist for The Eagles Glenn Frey is dead at age 67.  The band confirmed yet another untimely loss to the music industry with a message on its official web page:  "It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our comrade, Eagles founder, Glenn Frey, in New York City on Monday, January 18th, 2016.  Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Acute Ulcerative Colitis, and Pneumonia."  Manager Irving Azoff blamed medication for the arthritis for causing the other two conditions.

The Detroit native wrote, co-wrote, and/or sang most of the early hits for The Eagles, effectively providing the country-rock soundtrack of Southern California in the 1970's, invoking a world of Camaros and convertibles, endless summers, hopes and dreams, positive sex and drugs without guilt but with plenty of broken hearts:  "Take it Easy"; "Peaceful Easy Feeling"; "Desperado"; "James Dean"; "Tequila Sunrise"; "Already Gone"; "Lyin' Eyes"; "Take it to the Limit"; "New Kid in Town"; "Heartache Tonight"; and the list goes on.  After the band temporarily broke up in 1980, Frey effortlessly segued into the generation of of music videos, movie soundtracks, and Miami Vice, scoring hits with: "Smuggler's Blues"; "You Belong to the City"; "The Heat is On". 

Just to underscore the fact that 2016 - which unofficially began with the post-Christmas death of Lemmy Kilmister - is the crappiest year in the history of music, two more deaths were announced:  Mott the Hoople drummer Dale "Buffin" Griffin died at age 67 after years of battling Alzheimer's Disease; he played on "All the Young Dudes", passing a week after the song's writer David Bowie.

You've probably never heard of Mic Gilette, but as a founding member of Oakland, California's legendary Tower of Power horns, you've probably heard him play.  ToP put the brass on hits from 1966 through the current day, working with: Elton John, Heart, Helen Reddy, Jefferson Starship, Carlos Santana, Huey Lewis & the News, Bonnie Raitt, Eurythmics, Michael Bolton, Public Image, Luther Vandross, Sammy Hagar, Eric Clapton, and about a billion others.