News Headlines - 23 November 2013

▽Mayor Rob Ford's resilience upsetting his detractors | Toronto Sun

The more they throw at him, the worse it seems to get. Not, strangely enough, for Mayor Rob Ford but for the ambitions and goals of those who are doing the throwing.

▽Drunk PIA pilot jailed for nine months in UK - thenews.com.pk

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilot was jailed for nine months in Britain on Friday for being drunk before he was due to fly a plane with 156 people on board.

▽BBC News - Corruption problem among some UK minorities, says MP

Attorney General Dominic Grieve has said politicians need to "wake up" to the issue of corruption in some minority communities.

▽Labour faces cash crisis as Co-op's new bosses move to cut funding | The Observer

The Labour party is facing a major financial crisis after the scandal stricken Co-operative Group told its MPs that they will slash their funding as part of a review of their historic partnership. At least a third of the ￡850,000 annual donation given to Ed Miliband's MPs is to be cut, with one senior Labour figure admitting that he believed all funding from the mutual could soon be stopped.

▽Ikea's online expansion helps boost sales by 3.1% | The Guardian

Retailer's sales rose to ￡1.27bn for financial year to August, while its home furnishings market share increased to 6.4%