News Headlines - 04 March 2016

▽Brazil’s Ex-Leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Is Held and His Home Raided - The New York Times

The colossal graft scandal surrounding Brazil’s national oil company engulfed the country’s most prominent political figure on Friday, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as the police raided his home and took him into custody.

▽Brazil’s Marxist Government Arrests Facebook Top Executive  - Breitbart

With former Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla and current Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff under a massive corruption investigation, the country has embarked on an arrest spree that included the top Latin America Facebook executive, who was taken in for not surreptitiously archiving supposedly disappearing messages on WhatsApp.

▽Oscar Pistorius denied chance to appeal and now faces sentencing for murder conviction - LA Times

Just over three years after he fatally shot and killed his girlfriend, South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has reached the end of the road: A curt, one-page order from the highest court in the country denied him a chance to appeal his murder conviction.

▽Returning astronaut grew two inches in space - Independent.ie

Astronaut Scott Kelly has just returned from a year spent on the ISS and it turns out that he's actually taller than when he left our planet! Moving away from the constant crushing force of gravity has made him two inches taller, which is going to be interesting when he stands next to his identical twin brother. It's that familiar connection which makes Scott such a valuable test subject, as they have a control in a biologically identical twin.

▽Hong Kong booksellers: One of five missing men returns home - BBC News

One of five missing Hong Kong booksellers thought to have been detained by Chinese authorities has returned home, Hong Kong police say.