News Headlines - 20 November 2013

▽BBC News - Monty Python to reunite for stage show

All of the surviving members of comedy group Monty Python are to reform for a stage show, one of the Pythons, Terry Jones, has confirmed.

▽Rice: Reports of a U.S. apology to Afghanistan are false - CNN.com

Reports the United States is on the verge of a security agreement with Afghanistan that includes a formal letter of apology for past mistakes by American troops are completely false, the National Security adviser told CNN on Tuesday... "No such letter has been drafted or delivered. There is not a need for the United States to apologize to Afghanistan," National Security Adviser Susan Rice said on CNN's "Situation Room."

▽JFK assassination: fact and conspiracy - Telegraph

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the assassination, we chart the events of that day and the conspiracy theories they gave rise to

▽BBC News - Joseph Franklin, white supremacist serial killer, executed

A US white supremacist who targeted black and Jewish people in a nationwide killing spree has been put to death in the US state of Missouri.

▽BBC News - Hull to be UK City of Culture 2017

Hull has been named the UK's next City of Culture, beating Leicester, Dundee and Swansea Bay to the right to hold the title in 2017. Hull, known for being the home of poet Philip Larkin, the Ferens gallery and the Truck theatre, will follow the 2013 City of Culture, Londonderry.