News Headlines - 03 February 2016
▽Syrian peace talks fall apart as Assad forces advance on Aleppo - FT.com
Fraught Syrian peace talks have fallen apart just days after opening, with the UN special envoy suspending negotiations in the hope that world powers would do more to improve conditions on the ground.
▽Israel developing ‘underground’ Iron Dome - FT.com
The Iron Dome missile defence system is widely credited with helping protect Israel from aerial missile attack. Now the country’s military establishment and defence companies are developing technology to shield them on a new front: underground.
▽FT journalists call off 24-hour strike after new pension deal offer | The Guardian
Financial Times journalists have called off a 24-hour strike after receiving a new pension offer from management, ending the prospect of what would have been the first strike in more than 30 years.
▽Hole in jet may be result of bomb blast - The Washington Post
An explosion that blew a hole in a jetliner shortly after takeoff and left one man missing was thought to have been caused by a bomb, the pilot said Wednesday, describing how he returned to Mogadishu’s airport for an emergency landing.
Humans could harness the massive power of a mini-black hole and use it to fuel the world's electricity supply, Professor Stephen Hawking has claimed.
The British physicist said a mountain-sized black hole would give off enough radiation to power the whole of human society.
