News Headlines - 25 July 2012

Hitachi Train Deal To Create 900 Jobs

A £4.5bn deal to build and maintain intercity express trains ,which will help create 900 new jobs, has finally been announced.

BBC News - Olympics: London 2012 kicks off with football

The first event of the Olympics is to kick off later, two days before the official opening ceremony. The Team GB women's football side will get 18 days of sport under way at 16:00 BST (15:00 GMT) against New Zealand at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

Rupert Murdoch's finest brought to trial - The Independent

David Cameron's former spin-doctor Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, were charged with phone-hacking crimes against hundreds of people yesterday, raising fresh questions over Scotland Yard's first inquiry into Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire.

Confusion over claims Kristen Stewart 'cheated' on Robert Pattinson with Snow White and the Hunstman director Rupert Sanders | Metro.co.uk

Confusion surrounds reports in the US that Kristen Stewart was pictured in a compromising position with director Rupert Sanders, after his wife's apparent counter-claims that the picture was actually of her were themselves refuted.

BBC News - Satellites reveal sudden Greenland ice melt

Scientists said the "unprecedented" melting took place over a larger area than has been detected in three decades of satellite observation.