News Headlines - 16 October 2014
▽BBC News - Global shares slide on growth fears
Global shares have fallen sharply as concerns about weak global economic growth knock investor confidence.
In the US, the Dow Jones fell by 2.5%, before recovering to 16,141.74, a 1% drop. European markets were also sharply lower.
▽The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons - NYTimes.com
From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
▽BBC News - David Greenglass, US Cold War spy, 'died in July'
An American spy who passed nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union in one of the most high-profile espionage scandals of the Cold War has died.
David Greenglass, who was 92, stole atomic research data while working on the wartime Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
▽Universal to open $3.3bn theme park in China - FT.com
US film company Universal Studios has outlined plans to build a $3.3bn theme park in Beijing, in the latest expression of Hollywood’s growing love affair with China.
▽Japan Rebuffed Over U.N. Report on Wartime Brothels - NYTimes.com
The Japanese government has asked for the partial retraction of a nearly two-decade-old United Nations report on women forced to work in Japanese military brothels, but the report’s author has refused the request, a Japanese government spokesman said on Thursday.
