News Headlines - 09 December 2015

▽More than 150,000 Britons petition to ban Trump from UK | Reuters

More than 150,000 Britons have signed an online petition to ban U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from the country following his proposal to stop Muslims from entering the United States.

▽Germany: 965,000 migrants registered through November - US News

Some 206,000 new arrivals were registered in November. That pushed the total for 2015 well above the 800,000 that Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere forecast for the full year in mid-August, a few weeks before the flow of people arriving via Turkey, Greece and the Balkans accelerated.

▽This Leaked Document Reveals Islamic State's Blueprint For Empire, Economy, And Evil

A leaked dossier of Islamic State terror group published today in a leading newspaper show the sophisticated plans of the militant group in building a state in Iraq and Syria complete with government departments, a treasury and an economic programme for self-sufficiency.

▽Beijing, With Red Alert for Smog in Full Force, Closes Schools and Limits Traffic

Emergency measures adopted for Beijing's first "red alert" over air pollution left millions of schoolchildren cooped up at home, forced motorists off the roads and shut down factories across the region on Tuesday, but they failed to dispel the toxic air that shrouded the Chinese capital in a soupy, metallic haze.

▽Miners in meltdown: Mining stocks plunge to 11-year lows - Telegraph

Mining companies worldwide have come under increased pressure to slash capital expenditure and operational costs in the face of an accelerating rout in commodity prices.