News Headlines - 01 November 2014

▽Branson vows to push ahead with space tourism after fatal rocket crash - FT.com

Sir Richard Branson has said he will persevere with his space tourism venture despite the death of a pilot killed when Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crashed during a test flight in California.

▽French nuclear plants in new mystery drone overflights - source | Reuters

Unidentified drones illegally overflew five French nuclear power plants overnight, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday, in the latest of a series of unexplained incidents that have raised safety concerns.

▽Russia's top radio station slapped by government - Stripes

The Russian government's communications watchdog has issued a warning to a top independent radio station over a program about Ukraine.
Roskomnadzor's warning to Ekho Moskvy related to this week's program, in which two journalists exchanged first-hand accounts of fighting between pro-Russia rebels and government forces in eastern Ukraine.

▽Scary Clowns Are Terrorizing France - The Atlantic

Since mid-October, police in towns across France have been warning about an unlikely threat: clowns. The recent arrest of 14 teenagers in Agde, in the south of the country, for harassing passersby while dressed as clowns is just one instance of this nationwide bout of circus-costumed criminality, which has spread from where it originated in the country's north.

▽Swarms of Harlequin Ladybird invade various parts of England | Uncover Michigan

Several people in Britain have reported swarms of ladybirds in their gardens and homes. It is the harlequin ladybird, a foreign species that is behind this invasion.