News Headlines - 27 August 2015
▽Grisly Discovery in Migrant Crisis Shocks Europe - The New York Times
A white truck filled with the decomposing bodies of as many as 50 smuggled migrants was found abandoned on the outskirts of Vienna in the summer heat. The discovery came just as European leaders were meeting in a nearby palace to devise new ways to cope with the migration crisis.
▽UK net migration hits record high - BBC News
Net migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March, the Office for National Statistics has said.
▽Plague kills elderly Utah resident | The Salt Lake Tribune
An elderly resident is the first Utahn to die of the plague in at least 35 years.
The Utah Department of Health announced the death Thursday, but declined to provide any details, including the victim's gender, age or region of the state.
▽Greek president names Supreme Court judge as caretaker PM - SWI swissinfo.ch
Greece's top Supreme Court judge Vassiliki Thanou was named the head of a caretaker government to lead the country to elections expected next month, the president's office said on Thursday.
▽Babymetal to headline Wembley Arena, brace yourself | The List
In an announcement which you'd think would cause hordes of hairy men to reel in blank-eyed astonishment before reflexively crushing their empty beer cans into agonised ribbons of aluminium and letting out hoarse screams of dismay, Babymetal – sumimasen, we mean BABYMETAL – are to headline Wembley Arena next year.
