News Headlines - 07 September 2014

▽Ten days to save the Union with Scotland - Telegraph

David Cameron and Gordon Brown are to spearhead a final 10-day scramble to save the United Kingdom, following a poll suggesting that Scotland is on the brink of voting to break up Britain.

▽ISIS: President Obama is finally taking the fight to Islamic State - Mirror Online

US air strikes on IS fighters threatening to take control of the strategic Haditha dam mark a hugely significant development in President Obama’s approach to the crisis.
The dam provides 30% of Iraq’s electricity and IS fighters could kill many civilians if they use it to flood the area or tamper with the supply.

▽BBC News - Obama's NBC interview : Key excerpts

Q: Are you preparing the country to go back to war?
A: I'm preparing the country to make sure that we deal with a threat from ISIL [as IS is also known]. Keep in mind that this is something that we know how to do. We've been dealing with terrorist threats for quite some time.

▽ECB's Draghi Takes a Gamble on QE-lite - WSJ

It was a watershed moment. All year, the European Central Bank has faced growing pressure—from governments, markets, the mainstream economics establishment, the International Monetary Fund—to embark on a large-scale government bond-buying program.

▽God Particle could destroy universe, according to Hawking - UPI.com

As first discovered by the Sunday Times of the United Kingdom, in the preface of an upcoming book, Starmus, Stephen Hawking claims the Higgs Boson particle, a.k.a. the "God particle," could end the universe. He claims if enough energy is directed at the particle, it could cause space and time to completely collapse. He also claims that we "wouldn't see it coming."