News Headlines - 31 July 2010

▽Eurozone inflation hits 20-month high - FT
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e5b5c7fe-9be4-11df-9ebd-00144feab49a.html
Eurozone inflation has risen to a 20-month high while unemployment in the 16-country region has stabilised at 10 per cent of the workforce, but the European Central Bank is still expected at next week’s interest rate setting meeting to sit firmly on its hands.

▽Food inflation 'could go beyond 10pc before next year' - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/7919406/Food-inflation-could-go-beyond-10pc-before-next-year.html
The cost of food is likely to jump by up to 10 per cent before Christmas after dry weather drastically reduced the amount of winter feed that farmers could harvest, experts said.

▽Mars site may hold 'buried life' - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10790648
Researchers have identified rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars.

▽Giant asteroid 'heading for Earth in 2182' - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7916088/Giant-asteroid-heading-for-Earth-in-2182.html
A team of experts, including some working for NASA, believes the 612-yards-wide object has a one-in-a-thousand chance of an impact 172 years from now.

▽Edinburgh Festival Joke Special - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jul/31/edinburgh-festival-joke-special
Arj Barker
'I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist … and worse, she can prove it'