News Headlines - 13 June 2012
▽Italy Tax Increases Backfire as Monti Tightens Belts - Bloomberg
Value-added tax receipts have declined since Monti’s predecessor, Silvio Berlusconi, raised the rate by 1 percentage point in September as the economy was slipping into recession, government data released June 5 showed. The amount collected fell in the 12 months ended April 30 to the lowest since 2006.
▽Rebekah Brooks to face jury over claims she plotted to hide evidence of phone hacking - Telegraph
Mrs Brooks sat in the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court alongside her racehorse trainer husband Charlie and four current and former employees of News International for the eight-minute hearing.
Japan has evidence that a Chinese company exported to North Korea vehicles capable of transporting and launching missiles, in possible violation of U.N. sanctions, Japanese media reported Wednesday. China called the reports inaccurate, and denied violating any U.N. restriction.
Huge crowds turned out to see the Queen and Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they arrived in Nottingham on the latest leg of the Diamond Jubilee tour.
▽BBC News - Royal Mail asks to be able to leave post with neighbour
Royal Mail is applying for all its postmen and women to be able to leave large items of mail with a neighbour if the addressee is not at home... Royal Mail said nine out of 10 people whose post was left with a neighbour expressed their satisfaction.
