News Headlines - 10 November 2014

▽BBC News - Apec summit: China and Japan in ice-breaker talks

The leaders of China and Japan have met for formal talks after more than two years of severe tension over a territorial dispute.

▽BBC under pressure to rethink TV election debates | The Guardian

The Greens, the Scottish National party and Plaid Cymru have joined forces to ask the BBC to rethink its plans to exclude them from the main TV leaders’ debates in next year’s general election.

▽European Arrest Warrant: The Tory rebels - Telegraph

The Government has won overwhelming backing for opting into a package of EU measures, but not without provoking bitter recriminations over the European Arrest Warrant.
Thirty-seven Tory MPs opposed the UK opting back in to the 11 EU policing and justice regulations.

▽Gherkin sold to Brazilian banker Joseph Safra for more than ￡700million | This is Money

A Brazillian billionaire has paid more than ￡700million to buy The Gherkin – one of the most distinctive towers in the City of London.
Joseph Safra, the banker behind the Safra Group who has a personal fortune of around ￡10billion, bought the skyscraper at 30 St Mary Axe for ￡726million.

▽Catalan poll result suggests symbolic victory for independence vote

One of the most enduring images from Sunday’s Catalan independence referendum was that of queuing voters gleefully applauding one of the event’s international observers as she entered a polling station in Barcelona.