News Headlines - 19 May 2015
▽UK slips into negative inflation for the first time since 1960 - The Independent
The Consumer Price Index - the official measure of inflation - fell by 0.1% in the year to April 2015, according to the Office for National Statistics. The measure stood at 0% in March.
▽Labour leadership contenders attack Ed Miliband's hostility to business - Telegraph
Ed Miliband appeared “anti-worker” and his attack on major British companies as predators was a “mistake”, Yvette Cooper has said.
As she launches her leadership campaign, Ms Cooper urged Labour to “reset” its relationship with business and “wipe the slate clean from the past five years”.
▽Former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra proclaims innocence as criminal trial starts |The Guardian
Thailand’s ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra insisted on her innocence at the start of a trial on Tuesday that could see her jailed for a decade, part of what observers say is a vendetta against her family.
▽Video: Iraqi soldiers saved from grasp of IS - Telegraph
A video released by the Iraqi Ministry of Defence appears to show Iraqi forces being rescued from Ramadi shortly before the city fell to IS forces.
When Graham Hancock wrote Fingerprints of the Gods, it was derided by academics but became a commercial sensation... Now, 20 years later, he is set to publish a 500-page sequel - Magicians of the Gods - that he believes will prove his critics wrong.
