News Headlines - 08 November 2012

▽Video - Minorities, Higher-Income Whites Emerge as Democratic Stronghold - WSJ.com

Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest men ever to run for president. And yet the lack of money earlier this year stalled his campaign, and he never really recovered.

▽The economy and the election: The macroeconomics mandate | The Economist

HAD Barack Obama lost to Mitt Romney yesterday, the explanation would have barely taken up a sentence: the economy defeated him. Mr Romney’s mission from day one was simple. Pound home the message that Mr Obama took a bad economy and made it worse, and leave the facts to do the rest: unemployment stuck at around 8% and four straight years of trillion-dollar deficits. That Mr Obama won is thus a victory not just for him personally but for macroeconomics.

▽Plagiarism exposed in Romanian grant applications : Nature

Earlier this year, Nature exposed a series of plagiarism scandals in Romania that implicated the country's prime minister Victor Ponta, a former research minister and university leaders. Now evidence is emerging of plagiarism in applications for public grant money.

▽Celtic 2-1 Barcelona | Champions League Group G match report | The Guardian

A day after Celtic officially recognised the 125th anniversary of their foundation, the class of 2012 delivered one of the finest European results in the club's history.

▽Japanese grandmother arrested over series of murders - Telegraph

A 64-year-old Japanese grandmother has been accused of leading her family in a series of grisly murders of her own relatives, in a case that has transfixed the country.