While you were sleeping: Car attacks in Japan and Germany, helicopter rescue and beyond Pluto

Good morning, Happy New Year and all the best for 2019. Now here are three stories from the overnight world desk.
German and Japanese police report a driver in each city slammed into crowds: German police say at least four people have been injured after a man intentionally drove into a crowd of people in western Germany in what appears to have been an attack directed at foreigners. Muenster police said the 50-year-old driver of a Mercedes drove into a crowd in the centre of Bottrop shortly