News Headlines - 03 August 2011

▽Global recession fears as stock markets tumble to nine-month low - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8680521/Global-recession-fears-as-stock-markets-tumble-to-nine-month-low.html
The FTSE 100 experienced its biggest one-day fall for nine months yesterday as fears grew that the world economy is heading back into recession.

▽Facebook and Twitter fuel iPhone and BlackBerry addiction, says Ofcom - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/04/facebook-twitter-iphone-blackberry-addiction-ofcom
Britons' appetite for Facebook and social networks on the go is driving a huge demand for smartphones – with 60% of teenagers describing themselves as "highly addicted" to their device – according to new research by the media regulator, Ofcom.

▽Second moon may have collided with our moon, say scientists - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/03/second-moon-collision
The two moons are believed to have been created at the same time and followed a similar path to the moon we're familiar with today, but after tens of millions of years of peaceful co-existence, the two appear to have crunched together in a gentle collision that left the smaller, just a third of the size, spread across the larger like a cosmic pancake.