News Headlines - 28 September 2015
▽Volkswagen: Ex-boss Winterkorn faces investigation - BBC News
German prosecutors have begun an investigation against former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn.
The probe will look at "allegations of fraud in the sale of cars with manipulated emissions data", the prosecutor's office said.
The presidents of Fifa and Uefa both insisted yesterday there was nothing illegal or improper about the cash given to Platini but – four days after being quizzed by prosecutors about the alleged “disloyal” transaction – still offered no detail on why it took until February 2011 for him to be paid off for work done between 1998-2002.
▽Obama And Putin Trade Barbs Before UN Meeting
Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin have been sparring in speeches to the United Nations, hours before the US and Russian presidents have a rare one-one-one meeting.
▽Nasa confirms Mars' bizarre 'dark finger' marks ARE signs of liquid water | Daily Mail Online
The agency has confirmed that 'dark fingers' spotted in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) images are likely made by liquid moving across, or beneath, the planet's surface.
These marks, which lengthen and darken as the seasons change, are the first evidence of their kind ever found on another planet and they're the first step in confirming life can exist on the alien world.
People in Birmingham and across the UK and Europe witnessed the unusual treat of a supermoon and lunar eclipse on the same night.
During the eclipse, the larger-than-usual moon took on a strange red hue - becoming what’s known as a blood moon.
