News Headlines - 26 May 2017

▽U.S. to carry out first ICBM intercept test | Reuters

The United States will test an existing missile defense system to try to intercept an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) next week, U.S. officials said on Friday, at a time when North Korea is trying to develop one.

▽Ecuador's Moreno takes office vowing to heal divisions - NY Daily News

Lenin Moreno was sworn in as Ecuador's president on Wednesday, promising to try and heal divisions stirred by a decade of polarizing leftist rule.

▽Former president Barack Obama kicks off Scotland visit with round at St. Andrews | GOLF.com

Former president Barack Obama finally checked a big one off his during his first trip to Scotland this week, teeing it up for a round at St. Andrews, the home of golf.

▽Hoax paper blaming male genitalia for evil is published | Daily Mail Online

Peter Boghossian and James Liddle, from Portland State University, later confessed to inventing the nonsense article, and said they wanted to expose what they saw as the low academic standards of ‘gender studies scholarship’.

▽NASA's Juno probe forces 'rethink' on Jupiter

An unmanned NASA spaceship circling Jupiter has spotted massive cyclones at the gas giant's poles, revealing stunning new details about our solar system's largest planet, researchers said Thursday.