News Headlines - 27 November 2013

▽China 'monitored' US flights over disputed islands in East China Sea - Telegraph

China has said it is aware of two US B-52 bombers, which flew over the disputed Senkaku/Daiyou islands, 'in a direct challenge' to China's new air defence zone

▽Silvio Berlusconi ousted from Italian parliament after tax fraud conviction | theguardian.com

Silvio Berlusconi suffered arguably the heaviest blow of his political career on Wednesday when the upper house of parliament voted to oust him following a conviction for tax fraud.

▽Royal Mail major shareholders to be asked if shares were too cheap | theguardian.com

Royal Mail investors who bought large stakes in the postal service following its ￡3.3bn privatisation last month are to be asked by MPs why they have staked hundreds of millions of pounds on the view that the government sold the firm on the cheap.

▽Oil prices fall to lowest level in 6 months - The Washington Post

Oil prices fell to their lowest level in nearly six months Wednesday after the government reported the 10th straight weekly increase in U.S. crude supplies. Benchmark U.S. crude for January delivery fell $1.38, or 1.5 percent, to close at $92.30 a barrel Wednesday. Trading was light due to the holiday-shortened week.

▽Carole Waugh: how a secret life led her into the path of a murderous conman | The Guardian

From the outside, Carole Waugh had an enviable life. Living in a luxury ￡650,000 flat in central London, the 49-year-old was fond of her Cartier jewellery and liked to tell people about her close links to the Gaddafi family, whom she claimed to have met while working as an accounts clerk in Libya. But her wealth made her a target for the "dirty rotten scoundrel" Rakesh Bhayani, the 41-year-old conman who was found guilty on Wednesday at the Old Bailey of her murder, after killing her in her central London flat with a single stab to the neck.