News Headlines - 18 July 2012

Eva Rausing's body found two months after she was last seen alive - Telegraph

The decomposing body of heiress Eva Rausing was found under a pile of bedclothes two months after she was last seen alive, a court heard.

Numbers claiming benefits is on the increase despite LOWEST unemployment rate for a year | Mail Online

The number of people claiming unemployment benefits has risen even though the jobless rate in Britain is at its lowest for a year, official figures have revealed.

North Korea gives Kim Jong Eun top military rank - The Washington Post

North Korea on Wednesday named its young leader, Kim Jong Eun, as “marshal” of the military, a preeminent job title that analysts say is designed both to reinforce his absolute power and warn off senior elites who might question it.

Brother-in-law of Syrian President killed in bomb blast as rebels close in on Assad regime - The Independent

The brother-in-law of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been has been killed in a bomb blast in Damascus, the country’s state television confirmed today.

How dolphins may use a mathematical trick to find fish - New Scientist

But mathematical tricks can get around this, and dolphins may naturally use them to locate the fishy signal amid the bubbles. Timothy Leighton at the University of Southampton, UK, and his colleagues generated dolphin-like sonar clicks in a tank containing a "fish" – a small steel sphere – hiding in a bubble cloud.