News Headlines - 03 September 2015
▽Aylan Kurdi: Photo shows refugee crisis' tiny victim - CNN.com
The 3-year-old lies face down, his head to one side with his bottom slightly up -- the way toddlers like to sleep... The boy, in a red T-shirt, blue pants and tiny shoes with Velcro straps, was one of 12 people who drowned off Turkey and washed up on a beach Wednesday.
Hundreds of small British businesses and minor celebrities have been targeted by a sophisticated blackmail scam orchestrated by “rogue editors” at Wikipedia, The Independent can reveal.
▽Transsexuals cannot be godparents, Vatican tells priest | Reuters
The Vatican told a Spanish bishop that transsexuals cannot be godparents after he asked for a formal answer on the matter, the cleric in the diocese of Cadiz and Ceuta said.
▽Crash Could Cost U.S.-Canadian Cities $170 Billion, Lloyd’s Says - Bloomberg Business
A stock-market crash could erase as much as $170.3 billion from major cities’ gross domestic product in the U.S. and Canada and is the biggest threat to their economies, Lloyd’s of London said.
▽Military Parade in China Gives Xi Jinping a Platform to Show Grip on Power - The New York Times
Thousands of troops stood arrayed at perfect, hushed attention around Tiananmen Square. Hundreds of Communist Party elders, foreign dignitaries and diplomats looked on. It was then, on live television, that President Xi Jinping stepped forward to announce that the Chinese military, on proud display to mark 70 years since the end of World War II, would lose more than a 10th of its personnel.
