News Headlines - 17 February 2011

▽Apple falls on new Jobs health scare - This is London
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23924293-apple-falls-on-new-jobs-health-scare.do
Shares in Apple fell 3% in Germany today amid renewed speculation over the health of chief executive Steve Jobs after pictures of him visiting a cancer centre appeared in a US tabloid.

▽BAA loses round in fight to stop sales - Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ffcdccc2-3ad1-11e0-9c1a-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz1EGeVZNxK
BAA will probably have to sell Stansted and one of its Scottish airports after the UK’s largest airport operator lost a bid to appeal against a 2009 sale order by competition authorities.

▽Barack Obama to make state visit to Britain in May - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/17/barack-obama-state-visit-britain
Barack Obama is to make a state visit to Britain in May after accepting an invitation from the Queen, Buckingham Palace has announced.
The US president and his wife, Michelle, will make a three-day trip ahead of the G8 summit of world leaders in France that he is expected to attend.

▽Husband and wife swap passports at Manchester airport - and make it past new biometric security technology - Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1357913/Security-breach-caused-new-biometric-technology-Manchester-Airport.html
However, the UK Border Agency was forced to temporarily suspend the use of the machines after a couple accidentally mixed up their passports, but still managed to pass through the scanners without problem.
Luckily, due to the scanners being part of a trial, a security official was manning the gates and noticed the error.

▽Ancient Britons 'drank from skulls' - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12478115
Ancient Britons were not averse to using human skulls as drinking cups, skeletal remains unearthed in southwest England suggest.