News Headlines - 12 November 2017

▽Tory turmoil as 40 MPs say May must go | The Times & The Sunday Times

Forty MPs have agreed to sign a letter of no confidence in Theresa May as European Union negotiators threaten to block trade talks until March unless Britain agrees to settle the Brexit divorce bill.
The embattled prime minister is facing a fight on three fronts following another week of Tory turmoil in which Priti Patel become the second cabinet minister to resign and two other cabinet ministers — Damian Green and Boris Johnson — faced pressure to quit.

▽Calls mount for Boris Johnson to be sacked after Iranian gaffe - France 24

The storm began after remarks made by Johnson about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British Iranian woman currently detained in Iran on charges of sedition. Johnson said that Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been in Iran “training journalists”, a diplomatic blunder that could well see the Iranian judicial system increase the 5-year sentence already handed down to Zaghari-Ratclife.

▽Police chief 'was told of Damian Green pornography claims' - BBC News

A former Scotland Yard chief was aware pornography had allegedly been found on Damian Green's office computer during a 2008-9 police probe, he has said.

▽Man held in Germany over 1993 Ayr killing of Ansar Shah | The Times & The Sunday Times

A man has been arrested in Germany over the alleged murder of a Scottish restaurant owner almost 25 years ago... Europol, French and German authorities, Police Scotland, the Crown Office and the UK National Crime Agency were involved in arresting a man aged 51 in Frankfurt.

▽Teen Girl Posed For 8 Years As Married Man To Write About Baseball And Harass Women

For the last eight years, baseball fan-turned-writer Becca Schultz has presented herself online as Ryan Schultz, a false identity she assumed when she was 13 years old, duping and harassing women on Twitter along the way.
On Wednesday night, a woman named Erin tweeted a series of screenshots announcing that Schultz is not actually Ryan, a married father of two studying to become a pharmacist. Instead, Schultz is a 21-year-old college student in the Midwest, whose entire career as an aspiring baseball writer has been under a fraudulent byline.