News Headlines - 13 November 2012

▽Hatsune Miku: The world's fakest pop star - CBS News

Hatsune Miku is the rarest kind of pop star. She is enduringly popular in her native country of Japan. She has never been photographed stumbling out of night clubs in the early hours of the morning, and never had issues with drugs or alcohol. She has, in fact, never been seen outside of her concerts at all. This is because Miku is also the fakest kind of pop star. She is a hologram.

▽AFP: Australian wins $208k from Google for defamation

Google was ordered to pay Aus$200,000 (US$208,000) in damages to an Australian Monday after a jury found the Internet giant defamed him by publishing material linking him to mobsters. Milorad Trkulja, an entertainment promoter who is now 62, was shot in the back in 2004 in a crime that was never solved. He accused Google of defaming him with material which he said implied he was a major crime figure in Melbourne and had been the target of a professional hit.

▽Amazon, Google and Starbucks face questions on UK tax avoidance: as it happened - Telegraph

Executives from Amazon, Google and Starbucks give evidence before the Public Accounts Committee on the issue of tax avoidance.

▽Julie Larson-Green appointed president of Microsoft after Steven Sinofsky resigns | Mail Online

The software giant announced on Monday that Steven Sinofsky, who was in charge of the development and recent launch of Microsoft's operating system Windows 8, was resigning. The company did not give a reason for his shock departure, but said the decision was mutual.

▽BBC News - FBI search Petraeus mistress Paula Broadwell's home

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is searching the home of the woman who had an extramarital affair with former CIA director David Petraeus.