News Headlines - 21 November 2013

▽Three women rescued after 'decades of slavery' in south London home | theguardian.com

Three "highly traumatised" women have been rescued from a house in south London where they appear to have been held captive for three decades, Scotland Yard has said. A 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old British woman were all rescued from the residential address last month by detectives from the Metropolitan police human trafficking unit.

▽Video: Boris Johnson: Overnight tube 'vital' for London - Telegraph

London Mayor Boris Johnson says a new 24-hour Tube service at weekends from 2015 will allow people to enjoy "the whole of the London economy"

▽Scots warned that independence means expulsion from sterling - FT.com

Scotland will be forced to quit the sterling currency union if it votes for independence next year, a cabinet minister has said, in the starkest warning yet for Scottish voters to remain in the UK.

▽Ukraine drops plan to go West, turns East to Moscow | Reuters

Ukraine abruptly spurned an historic new alliance with its western neighbours on Thursday, suspending an imminent trade pact with the European Union and saying it would revive talks on a deal instead with Russia, its old Soviet master.

▽Video: Neutrinos from outer space found in Antarctic - Telegraph

The high-energy subatomic particles, called neutrinos, which come from far beyond our solar system have been detected by a telescope buried under more than a mile of ice in Antarctica. Neutrinos are thought to be the second most abundant particle in the universe, but are extremely difficult to detect as they have no charge and almost no mass. This means they can pass straight through rock, metal and the human body without any effect.