News Headlines - 06 August 2014
▽BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Putin orders retaliatory sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned or curbed agricultural imports from countries imposing sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.
In a decree (Russian text), he ordered the measures, which also apply to food imports, to be introduced for one year.
▽UPDATE 4-U.S. allows use of Ebola test overseas as crisis deepens | News by Country | Reuters
U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the use of an Ebola diagnostic test developed by the Pentagon to help contain the world's worst outbreak of the deadly virus.
Boris Johnson today ended months of speculation by confirming he will stand as an MP next May.
The Mayor of London will stand in the 2015 general election - a full year before his second term ends at City Hall.
▽UK aims to become center of world for virtual currency | TechnologyTell
UK Chancellor George Osborne announced during a recent event in London that he would like to see the country become the go-to market for any and all finance-related startups. Many of the recent innovations in finance have been virtual currencies, of which there are now dozens.
▽'We are here!' Spacecraft Rosetta meets 67P comet 10 years after leaving Earth - Telegraph
It has taken more than a decade, but today the European Agency's craft Rosetta finally caught up with the comet it has been chasing since it left Earth in 2004.
Rosetta, which was woken up from deep space hibernation in January, has spent the last seven months catching up with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
