As the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu asked the congregation if it was their will that Rev Lane was ordained, Rev Williamson shouted: "No. Not in the Bible." He added: "With respect, your grace, I ask to speak on this absolute impediment, please."

However, Dr Sentamu continued and read a statement reaffirming the legality of women bishops - prepared in advance as Church authorities were expecting Rev Williamson. The congregation repeated their assent with a deafening shout of "we will".

Tarik Kafala, the head of BBC Arabic, the largest of the BBC’s non-English language news services, said the term “terrorist” was too “loaded” to describe the actions of the men who killed 12 people in the attack on the French satirical magazine.

Mr Kafala, whose BBC Arabic television, radio and online news services reach a weekly audience of 36 million people, told The Independent: “We try to avoid describing anyone as a terrorist or an act as being terrorist. What we try to do is to say that ‘two men killed 12 people in an attack on the office of a satirical magazine’. That’s enough, we know what that means and what it is.”

Mr Kafala said: “Terrorism is such a loaded word. The UN has been struggling for more than a decade to define the word and they can’t. It is very difficult to. We know what political violence is, we know what murder, bombings and shootings are and we describe them. That’s much more revealing, we believe, than using a word like terrorist which people will see as value-laden.”

"Unity will not be the fruit of subtle theoretical discussions in which each party tries to convince the other of the soundness of their opinions ", but "seeking instead to grasp more fully what unites us, namely, our call to share in the mystery of the Father's love revealed to us by the Son through the Holy Spirit ". In the basilica dedicated to the Apostle of the Gentiles, Pope Francis was joined by Metropolitan Gennadios, representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and Bishop David Moxon, personal representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Rome, as well as representatives of other Christian communities.

The Pope's homily is centered on the need to try to overcome divisions and contrasts the fruits of the past, "we need to encounter one another and to challenge one another under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, who harmonizes diversities and overcomes conflicts " because it is the common duty to announce and the Gospel "in the call to be evangelizers, all the Churches and Ecclesial Communities discover a privileged setting for closer cooperation".

"Dear brothers and sisters" - concluded the Pope - "today all of us who thirst for peace and fraternity trustingly implore from our heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ the one Priest, and through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Apostle Paul and all the saints, the gift of full communion between all Christians, so that "the sacred mystery of the unity of the Church" (Unitatis Redintegratio, 2) may shine forth as the sign and instrument of reconciliation for the whole world".

If you got your news from the mainstream media, what is increasingly known in Germany as the ‘liar press’ (Luegenpresse), the story might very well end there. Then again, the report might also throw in salacious details about the former leader of this movement and his colourful past, or the tragic death of an immigrant man who was killed shortly after a demonstration in Dresden last week.

There is no doubt about what these reports are meant to leave you thinking. Germans actually taking pride in their country, and very soon after in the neighbourhood a young Eritrean is murdered with no apparent motive? Must be a racist attack. This has been a large part of the German establishment’s haughty dismissal of the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) group: that they are cold, angry racists with hatred in their hearts.

The fact that many of the supporters appear to be middle class, grandparents, or young couples doesn’t matter. As one government minister remarked, they are merely “Pinstripe Nazis”. Nor does it matter that as was revealed on Wednesday, 20-year old Eritrean Khaled Idris Bahray was actually killed by his flat mate, rather than a roving band of politically engaged Germans protesting against government policy.

The fact is PEGIDA weren’t the ones throwing glass bottles and fireworks at Wednesday’s demonstration, it was the tens of thousands of left-wing counter-protesters who would stop at nothing to prevent the PEGIDA march from going ahead.

Despite that, Yemen's minority Shiite Houthi fighters, who are believed to be funded and supported militarily by Iran, have taken up guard at President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi's home and forced his and his Cabinet's resignation. In a statement, the Gulf Arab foreign ministers meeting in Saudi Arabia considered the violence in Sana'a on January 20 a "coup d'etat," This comes on the back of perceptions that this is a major advance for Tehran in the Arabian Peninsula.

At the same time, he once again said that the current decline in investment could cause a significant energy shortage in the future and therefore a price rise. "Suppose we cut production, and then we'll have spare capacity," he said. "Producers when they have excess capacity they will not invest.”

He added that the lack of investment can lead to a shortage of supply in about 3-4 years, which in turn can lead to a repetition of 2008, when prices rose rapidly. "Maybe we will go to $200 if there is a real shortage of supply because of the lack of investment," he said.

“The big question for us right now is ‘where are they going to go?’ Obviously, a part is going to stay here,” Hodges said, referring to the Grafenwöhr training area. “We really want to put some in southeastern Europe, some in the Baltics, some in Poland. Those countries want them bad — an obvious reason, they’re a deterrent aspect.”

Once the surveys are concluded, a formal recommendation will be submitted to European Command chief General Philip Breedlove, Hodges said. That will happen sometime in February.

The National Weather Service warned of a "life-threatening blizzard" that could dump as much as 30 inches (76 cm) of snow on parts of the region at rates up to four inches an hour. Winds might gust up to 55 mph (80 kph) around New York City.

The National Weather Service in New York said roughly 5.5 inches of snow had fallen in the Manhattan's Central Park by early Tuesday and nearly nine inches were recorded on parts of Long Island. NWS officials in Boston reported early on Tuesday wind gusting up to 70 mph at Nantucket Memorial Airport.

"Please stay home," New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told residents, ordering all but the most essential government workers in his state home from Monday afternoon until Wednesday at the earliest.

Alexis Tsipras, Syriza’s charismatic leader, will become the country’s youngest prime minister in 150 years, after taking 36 percent of the vote compared with 28 percent for the conservative New Democracy party of incumbent prime minister Antonis Samaras.

"Your decision today has made the Troika a thing of the past," Mr Tsipras told a cheering crowd in Athens. "Our victory is a victory for all people in Europe who are fighting austerity. The new Greek government will be willing to collaborate and negotiate with our European counterparts for a fair solution so that Greece can emerge from the vicious circle of debt."

Greece has struggled under repeated rounds of austerity that have pushed unemployment up to 25 percent compared with the eurozone average of 11.5 percent.

The forthcoming rhetorical slugfest, whatever the outcome, will have ripple effects across other “peripheral” members of the 19-country currency bloc which could send global bond markets haywire. This Hellenic election holds big significance for Britain, too. Ahead of our general election in May 2015, fears of renewed eurozone turmoil, which this Greek vote could spark, will bolster Eurosceptics across all parties. That could lead to an earlier vote on UK European Union membership.

Whatever the domestic political impact, there’s also the enduring economic reality. Continental Europe remains our largest trading partner by far and, in the EU or not, that won’t change any time soon. As such, Britain can’t stage a full-throated recovery while the eurozone is flirting with systemic meltdown – a meltdown that is now more likely, after this Greek election.

In Perama, one of the poorest parts of Athens, unemployment has reached 60 per cent and families do not have enough money to put food on the table. The clinic was originally set up to provide free health care and medicines to the growing number of poor, but now it hands out emergency boxes of food as well. Middle-aged men and women carrying plastic bags full of milk, beans, pasta and oil emerge from the clinic, which is run by Medecins du Monde, a French charity which normally provides disaster relief in Africa and Asia.

Syriza insists that austerity policies, which were designed to shake up the Greek economy and create growth, have only brought misery, including 25 per cent unemployment and a contraction in economic output on a par with the darkest years of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

The effects of those policies are all too evident in Athens – streets are lined with shops and businesses that are boarded up or have empty windows, their bare interiors occupied now only by bits of shelving and broken chairs. In the poorer parts of the city, people rifle through rubbish bins looking for scraps of food.