News Headlines - 09 April 2015

▽US, Russian war games rekindle Cold War tensions - Stripes

In recent months, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have seen hundreds of U.S. armored vehicles, tanks and helicopters arrive on their soil. With a combined population of just over 6 million, tiny armies and no combat aircraft or vehicles, the last time tanks rumbled through their streets was just over 20 years ago, when remnants of the Soviet army pulled out of the region.

▽Glassdoor: These Are The 15 Highest Paying Companies in America - Bloomberg Business

1. Skadden Arps
2. Netflix
3. Booz & Company* (now known as Strategy&)
4. McKinsey & Company
5. A.T. Kearney
6. Sidley Austin
7. Boston Consulting Group
8. Mozilla
9. Good Technology
10. Altera
11. VMware
12. Cadence Design Systems
13. Google
14. Synopsys
15. TrueCar

▽LinkedIn buys online learning firm Lynda for $1.5bn - BBC News

LinkedIn has bought US online learning business Lynda for $1.5bn (￡1.1bn), making it the professional networking site's biggest acquisition to date.

▽Jeremy Clarkson pulls out of Have I Got News For You - BBC News

Jeremy Clarkson has pulled out of his planned appearance as guest host of the BBC show Have I Got News For You.
He had been due to appear on 24 April in his first BBC appearance since being dropped as a co-presenter of Top Gear, following an attacked on a producer.

▽Rhodes statue removed in Cape Town as crowd celebrates - BBC News

South Africa's University of Cape Town (UCT) has removed a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes that had become the focus of protests.