News Headlines - 14 November 2017
▽West to Russia’s Putin: ‘We Know What You Are Doing and You Will Not Succeed’
British Prime Minister Theresa May said the Kremlin “is seeking to weaponize information, deploying its state-run media organizations to plant fake news stories and Photoshopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the West and undermine our institutions.”
May had a “simple” message for Russia. “We know what you are doing, and you will not succeed,” she said Monday during a major foreign policy address at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in London.
▽Suitcase full of gems worth ￡1m stolen from jewellery dealer on train
A suitcase containing rubies, emeralds, and sapphires worth ￡1m has been stolen from a London to Birmingham train.
A jewellery dealer boarded the 7.03pm Euston train on Wednesday 8 November, travelling to Birmingham New Street.
France could introduce a law to rule that anyone aged under 13 is automatically considered unable to consent to sex after a 28-year-old man was acquitted of raping an 11-year-old because the relations were deemed consensual.
▽Japan-based name 'Chibanian' set to represent geologic age of last magnetic shift | The Japan Times
The name “Chibanian,” based on a stratum discovered in Chiba Prefecture, is set to represent the geological age when the latest reversal of the Earth’s magnetic fields is believed to have occurred, a Japanese national research institute said Monday.
Chelsea legend Didier Drogba has announced that he is retiring from playing football.
The 39-year-old, who is playing for Phoenix Rising in America's USL where he also owns a stake in the club, has revealed that he is to hang up his boots at the end of the current campaign.
