News Headlines - 26 August 2016

▽U.K. Consumer Confidence Rebounds as Brexit Vote Panic Subsides - Bloomberg

U.K. consumer confidence rose the most in more than three years this month as the initial shock from Britain’s decision to leave the European Union faded.

▽Rio police charge US swimmer Ryan Lochte with false report of robbery

Brazilian police charged American swimmer Ryan Lochte on Thursday with making a false statement about being robbed at gunpoint during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

▽How a GIF of Aly Raisman's Floor Routine Got Me Permanently Banned From Twitter | Jim Weber

Update: After this story picked up enough steam, my permanent Twitter suspension was coincidentally lifted. Funny how that works...

▽Lotte vice chairman found dead amid probe; suicide suspected | Reuters

One of the top executives at South Korea's Lotte Group was found dead on Friday, a suspected suicide, hours before he was to be questioned by prosecutors conducting a criminal probe into the country's fifth-largest conglomerate.

▽Sir Richard Branson 'thought he would die' in bike crash - BBC News

Sir Richard Branson says he thought he was "going to die" after crashing his bike on Caribbean island Virgin Gorda.