News Headlines - 16 November 2012

▽BBC News - Who will dictate Europe's future?

Which country holds the key to the euro's fate? Which of the 17 members will turn out to be the "pivot state" - the country around which the future of the eurozone will turn?

▽Business Line : Japan PM dissolves lower house for election

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda dissolved the lower house of parliament today for an election next month, in a political gamble widely expected to strip his centre-left party of power.

▽Comet closing down sales to start on Saturday | The Guardian

Closing down sales will start in around 30 Comet stores on Saturday as administrators prepare the ground for the first wave of redundancies among store staff.

▽NASA locates most distant galaxy ever discovered - Telegraph

Light from the newly discovered galaxy, which astronomers have named MACS0647-JD, reached Earth after travelling across space for 13.3 billion years. It provides a window on what the galaxy looked like just 420 million years after the big bang, when the universe was only three per cent of its current age.

▽Kylie Minogue to sing on Children In Need - Telegraph

The BBC will hold its "biggest ever" Children in Need appeal today with the wreckage caused at the corporation by the Jimmy Savile paedophilia scandal as a backdrop.