News Headlines - 05 December 2012

▽BBC News - London 2012 Olympic legacy 'needs leadership'

The government's spending watchdog has called for "strong leadership" by the Cabinet Office to ensure the legacy of the London 2012 Games is not wasted.

▽Attorney: Internet pioneer John McAfee in Guatemala, will seek asylum - CNN.com

For weeks, John McAfee hid from authorities, donning a disguise and using disposable cell phones to communicate. On Tuesday, the 67-year-old Internet security pioneer emerged publicly in Guatemala's capital, hundreds of miles away from the Caribbean island in Belize where his next-door neighbor was found dead. McAfee's lawyer said he left Belize to escape police persecution and planned to file a formal request for asylum with Guatemalan officials Wednesday.

▽NATO will deploy Patriot missiles on Turkey's border with Syria - latimes.com

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Tuesday agreed to deploy Patriot anti-missile batteries along the Turkish border with Syria, providing a measure of security for Turkey in case of an airborne attack from its war-ravaged neighbor.

▽Defection or escape? Syria's foreign ministry spokesman 'on way to US' | guardian.co.uk

The former Syrian foreign ministry spokesman, Jihad Makdissi, is on his way to the United States after apparently defecting, the Guardian has learned. Makdissi, the most senior Christian official yet to abandon Bashar al-Assad's regime, was reported on Monday to have variously been sacked or defected and to have arrived back in London, where he used to serve in the Syrian embassy.

▽Iran Claims It Captured U.S. Drone - WSJ.com

Iran aired footage Tuesday of what it said was a U.S. drone it had captured over Iranian airspace in the Persian Gulf, a claim the U.S. Navy denied.