This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 2nd of January, these are our main stories.

The first victims of the New Year's Day attack in your lens are named.

Syria's new Islamist-led administration has updated the school curriculum, prompting concerns in some communities.

40 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 three metres 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 Shamsuddin Jabar, 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 Shamsha Din Jabbar wasn't

the only suspect involved. It was a theme that was emerging throughout New Year's Day from the FBI really,

suggesting that he could have had accomplices.

I think one of the elements to this was that they had seen some security camera footage,

which at first officials believed may have been people planting improvised explosive devices.

Now, our understanding is that they have stood down that belief over that particular bit of footage.

They think that was actually innocent.

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