News Headlines - 25 April 2013
▽Syria guilty of chemical weapons use, believes US - International - Scotsman.com
US INTELLIGENCE has concluded “with some degree of varying confidence” that the Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons in its fierce civil war, the White House said last night. But officials said more definitive proof was needed and they were not ready to escalate involvement in Syria.
Britain was warned economic recovery will be a ‘marathon, not a sprint’ yesterday as official figures showed an unprecedented triple dip recession has been avoided. In a significant boost for Chancellor George Osborne, gross domestic product grew by 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of the year. The figure is far better than expected and comes in spite of the unseasonably cold weather, which helped depress retail sales and construction.
The newspaper industry has flatly rejected cross-party proposals to regulate Britain’s 300-year-old free Press, unveiling alternative plans for a tough new watchdog which David Cameron said yesterday he was ‘very happy’ to consider. It will mean a new independent regulator having strong investigative powers and the right to impose fines of up to ￡1million for wrongdoing, up-front corrections, inaccuracies corrected fully and prominently, and independence from the industry and politicians.
▽Google agrees to change practices after EU antitrust investigation - UPI.com
Google says it has agreed to change the way it presents search results in the wake of a European investigation of whether it unfairly promoted its own services.
▽BBC News - Prince Harry 'punched' by 11-year-old
Prince Harry has been sparring with an 11-year-old boxer at a youth club in Nottingham during his first official visit to the city.
