News Headlines - 30 October 2010

▽Landmark UN Nagoya biodiversity deal agreed to save natural world - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8098540/Landmark-UN-Nagoya-biodiversity-deal-agreed-to-save-natural-world.html
Delegates from more than 190 countries meeting in Nagoya, Japan, agreed a programme to conserve global biodiversity and the natural habitats that support the most threatened animals and plants.

▽Cargo plane terror alert: bombs 'designed to harm US synagogues' - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8098139/Cargo-plane-terror-alert-bombs-designed-to-harm-US-synagogues.html
The plot – described as a “credible threat” originating in Yemen - was uncovered by MI6 after a tip-off to one of its officers based in the Middle East.

▽Berlusconi denies links to Moroccan teenager - euronews
http://www.euronews.net/2010/10/30/berlusconi-denies-links-to-moroccan-teenager/
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has branded alleged links with a 17-year-old Moroccan girl as “media trash.”
The teenager, known only as Ruby, said she attended parties at the billionaire tycoon’s villa in northern Italy.

▽Teacher off sick on full pay for six years 'lied' - Yorkshire Post
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/businessnews/Teacher-off-sick-on-full.6605546.jp
TAXPAYERS are footing a bill running into hundreds of thousands of pounds after a South Yorkshire teacher was off sick for six years on full pay when she claimed a colleague fell on her at work.

▽Star photos blackmailer gets seven years - Mirror.co.uk
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/10/30/star-photos-blackmailer-gets-seven-years-115875-22675252/
A blackmailer who demanded cash from a female pop superstar for "very sensitive" photos stolen from home was jailed for seven years yesterday.