News Headlines - 02 June 2014

▽BBC News - King Juan Carlos of Spain abdicates

King Juan Carlos of Spain has announced his intention to abdicate, after nearly 40 years on the throne... His son, Crown Prince Felipe, 45, will take over the throne.

▽Obama defends new carbon emission rules in face of mounting backlash | theguardian.com

Barack Obama took personal charge of the campaign for historic new climate change regulations on Monday, defending a 30% cut in carbon pollution from power plants from a backlash by business lobbies, conservative groups and Democrats in oil and coal states.
The new rules, unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency, would cut carbon pollution from power plants 30% from 2005 levels by 2030.

▽Stone to Direct Film on Snowden

U.S. Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone is planning to make a film about former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Stone announced Monday that he will write and direct a movie based on a book written by British journalist Luke Harding.

▽Political candidate, Pirate Bay founder, convicted pirate, Peter Sunde, arrested in Sweden

L ess than a month ago, Peter Sunde, co-founder of the file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay, launched his campaign to run for European Parliament. Today, after two years on the run after being convicted for copyright violation, he is in police custody for violating copyright laws.

▽Apple WWDC 2014: five key takeaways from the keynote address | theguardian.com

Well, another Apple keynote has come and gone. In the absence of any big hardware announcements, chief executive Tim Cook's biggest news on Monday was iOS 8, due in the autumn. Here are five other key takeaways from Cook's keynote address at the company's Worldwide Developer conference.
New 'health kit' relies on old hardware
The search engine that shall not be named
iMessaging
Goodbye, Dropbox
New keyboards! Apps talking to each other!