News Headlines - 30 November 2012
Next week will bring fresh claims of phone hacking, protests outside Parliament over the relationship between politicians and the press, and frantic negotiations between newspaper groups who normally see each other as bitter rivals.
▽Mau Mau massacre cover-up detailed in newly-opened secret files | guardian.co.uk
The full story of the British government's attempts to mount a cover-up following a massacre of unarmed prisoners during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya has been disclosed with the declassification of hitherto secret files from the era.
Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied lands that the world body overwhelmingly said belong to the Palestinians.
▽Euro-Zone Inflation Falls Sharply, Unemployment Rises Again - WSJ.com
A rise in joblessness in the countries at the heart of the euro zone's fiscal crisis pushed unemployment to record levels in the region, while the annual inflation rate in November fell to the area's lowest rate in almost two years.
▽First direct picture of DNA double helix captured (Wired UK)
The first direct images of the DNA double helix have been taken using electron microscopy. In a study published in the journal NanoLetters, Enzo di Fabrizio, head of the Nanostructures Department at the University of Genoa, and his team managed to take a picture of the structure which had previously only been observed indirectly using X-ray crystallography.
