News Headlines - 23 September 2016
▽Colombia's FARC guerrillas ratify end of war against state
Representatives of the Marxist FARC’s approximately 6,600 fighters have unanimously ratified their leadership’s peace deal with the Colombian state, one of the guerrilla commanders announced Friday.
▽Mr BRICS quits UK Treasury post after reported row over China | Reuters
Former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill resigned from Britain's finance ministry on Friday after he reportedly clashed with new Prime Minister Theresa May over Chinese investment in the country.
O'Neill, who coined the BRICS acronym to group the world's largest emerging economies while at Goldman Sachs, worked in the Treasury as a junior minister overseeing infrastructure policy and promoting Britain as a source of foreign direct investment.
▽Twitter may soon get formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
The sources said the company has received expressions of interest from several technology or media companies and may receive a formal bid shortly.
▽China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth
China's Tiangong-1 space station has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years now, but recently it was decommissioned and the Chinese astronauts returned to the surface. In a press conference last week, China announced that the space station would be falling back to earth at some point in late 2017.
POLICE were last night investigating an attempt to flog intimate snaps of Pippa Middleton by a man who claimed to have hacked her phone.
The shadowy cyber thief contacted The Sun by email yesterday and demanded “a minimum of ￡50,000” within 48 hours for the images and data from her iCloud account.
