News Headlines - 13 September 2016

▽Peru's president throws cold water on Chinese railway proposal | Reuters

Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said a transcontinental railway proposed by China to slash the costs of shipping Brazilian goods to Asia could be too expensive and environmentally harmful to build.

▽Former Israeli president Shimon Peres in hospital after suffering stroke | The Guardian

Shimon Peres, Israeli’s former president and a key figure in the country’s history, is in a medically induced coma after suffering a massive stroke on Tuesday.
Peres, aged 93, was a key architect of the Oslo peace accords, for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize. He was described as being in a serious condition at the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel Hashomer near Tel Aviv.

▽Sir John Franklin's long-lost HMS Terror believed found - CBC News

A video shared with CBC News and produced by the Arctic Research Foundation appears to show images of the submerged HMS Terror — one of British explorer Sir John Franklin's two ships lost in the doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition — in a Nunavut bay.

▽Every advert in Clapham Common tube station replaced with cat photos | Metro News

The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service (CATS, if you didn’t get that) started a crowdfunding campaign to raise enough money to replace the standard adverts for new protein shakes and mortgage apps with pictures of, well, cats.

▽Making babies without eggs may be possible, say scientists - BBC News

Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs.
They have succeeded in creating healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into believing they were fertilising normal eggs.