News Headlines - 13 September 2014
▽How Russia forced Ukraine into a ceasefire with rebels - FT.com
Despite repeated denials from Moscow, Kiev officials and Ukrainian soldiers allege Russian special forces and military intelligence, in small numbers, have been directing the eastern insurgency since the start in April.
▽Russian authorities raid Ikea office - FT.com
Russian authorities have raided an office of the Swedish furniture company Ikea just outside Moscow, hours after the European Union and US stepped up their trade sanctions against Russia.
On Friday, the furniture retailer confirmed that Russia’s Investigative Committee – its equivalent of the US FBI – had conducted a search of its premises in Khimki, to the northwest of Moscow, in connection with a legal case over land.
▽BBC tells Proms stars not to mention the Scottish referendum - Telegraph
The BBC has told the presenters and the stars of the Last Night of the Proms not to mention the Scottish referendum during the event this weekend amid fears that the corporation could be accused of bias.
▽BBC News - Aliens among us: What strange species are making England home?
Ever since the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles craze of the late 1980s, there have been sightings of terrapins "the size of dinner plates" dipping in and out of English canals.
The animals were native to Florida but they are just one of many alien species making their home in England.
Rio Ferdinand has accused John Terry of ‘stupidity’ over the racial insult he delivered to his brother Anton and has expressed his shock that the former England captain never apologised to either of them.
Ferdinand, once an England team-mate of Terry, became estranged from the centre-half when he clashed with Anton at a match between QPR and Chelsea in 2011. The FA ruled Terry had racially abused Anton, calling him a ‘******* black ****’.
