News Headlines - 27 April 2012

▽Tottenham Court Road siege ends in arrest - Evening Standard
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/london/tottenham-court-road-siege-ends-in-arrest-7684791.html
A man who brought central London to a halt after he stormed offices and threatened to explode a bomb was arrested after a four hour stand-off this afternoon.

▽‘Spy couldn’t get into bag by himself … I tried 300 times’ - Evening Standard
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/crime/spy-couldnt-get-into-bag-by-himself--i-tried-300-times-7684670.html
“My conclusion is Mr Williams was either placed in the bag unconscious or he was dead when put in the bag. I believe a third party was involved.”

▽Spain’s economic crisis deepens - Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/73402b46-9049-11e1-8cdc-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links/rss/global-economy/feed//product#axzz1tFvIusEN
Spain’s unemployment rate rose to almost one in four, according to data released on Friday, as the country’s foreign minister warned of an economic crisis of “enormous proportions”.

▽Space Shuttle Enterprise in New York fly-by - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17873151
The space shuttle Enterprise has had a piggyback ride on a 747 during a flyover of the Statue of Liberty and other New York landmarks.

▽Samsung overtakes Nokia in mobile phone shipments - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17865117
Nokia took the top spot in 1998 from Motorola, but in the first quarter of 2012 Samsung shipped 93m phones compared to almost 83m by Nokia.
Samsung also reported its highest quarterly profit since 2008.