News Headlines - 25 October 2014
Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce giant and owner of messaging app Viber and Play.com, has launched an own-brand UK online marketplace similar to Ebay, which it says will subsume Play.com early next year.
▽Google executive breaks speed of sound in record skydive (+video) - CSMonitor.com
Google executive Alan Eustace broke the sound barrier and set several skydiving records over the southern New Mexico desert early Friday after taking a big leap from the edge of space.
▽BBC News - Johann Lamont resignation: Scottish Labour leader stands down immediately
Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont has resigned with immediate effect after accusing the UK party of treating Scotland like a "branch office".
The 56-year-old MSP indicated that she had "had enough".
▽Global Ebola cases pass 10,000 as Mali becomes latest nation to record a death | The Observer
The global number of cases in the Ebola outbreak has exceeded 10,000, with 4,922 deaths, according to the latest estimates by the World Health Organisation released on Saturday. Three countries with shared borders – Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea – account for all but 10 of the fatalities, with only 27 cases occurring outside the west African epicentre.
▽BBC Sport - Marussia and Caterham to miss US Grand Prix - Bernie Ecclestone
Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has said Caterham and Marussia will both miss the US Grand Prix next weekend.
