News Headlines - 05 October 2016

▽Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources | Reuters

Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events.

▽Philippine leader tells Obama 'go to hell', says can buy arms from Russia, China | Reuters

Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday told U.S. President Barack Obama to "go to hell" and said the United States had refused to sell some weapons to his country but he did not care because Russia and China were willing suppliers.

▽Who is Antonio Guterres, the next Secretary-General of the United Nations?

The Socialist former prime minister of Portugal has been chosen as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations – taking over at a time when the world is rocked by terrorism, reeling from the refugee crisis, and struggling to resolve the war in Syria.
Antonio Guterres, the 67-year-old former secretary of Socialist International, will succeed Ban Ki-moon on January 1.

▽Serial killer suspected of killing 48 elderly patients at hospital - Independent.ie

Police in Japan are investigating whether a serial poisoner is responsible for killing as many as 48 elderly patients by injecting disinfectant into their intravenous drips.

▽Daniel Radcliffe admits he has barely touched his ￡74m Harry Potter fortune

Daniel Radcliffe was made incredibly rich at a very young age when he played Harry Potter in the immensely popular films. However, he has admitted that he has barely touched his fortune, which is estimated by various rich lists to be around ￡74 million.