News Headlines - 15 November 2017
▽Russia used Twitter bots and trolls ‘to disrupt’ Brexit vote | The Times & The Sunday Times
More than 150,000 accounts based in Russia, which had previously confined their posts to subjects such as the Ukrainian conflict, switched attention to Brexit in the days leading up to last year’s vote, according to research for an upcoming paper by data scientists at Swansea University and the University of California, Berkeley.
▽Zimbabwe's Mugabe 'under house arrest' after army takeover - BBC News
Zimbabwe's military has placed President Robert Mugabe under house arrest in the capital Harare, South African President Jacob Zuma says.
▽Rare quake measuring 5.4 in magnitude rocks southern South Korea | The Indian Express
A rare 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit South Korea’s southeast today, the second most powerful quake on record in a country that seldom experiences significant tremors. The quake, felt across much of the country including in the capital Seoul, struck at the shallow depth of nine kilometres (six miles) near the industrial city of Pohang at around 2:30 pm (05:30 GMT), the Korea Meteorological Administration said.
▽40 years since abduction of Megumi Yokota - NHK WORLD
Wednesday marks 40 years since a Japanese schoolgirl was abducted by North Korean agents.
Megumi Yokota was 13 years old when she was taken while walking home from school in Niigata City, on the Sea of Japan coast, on November 15th, 1977.
Scientists in Chile found the planet orbiting Ross 128, a red dwarf star, which is among the coolest stars in the universe.
The planet, known as Ross 128 b, has a surface temperature that may be close to that of Earth, meaning it has the potential to sustain life.
It is also expected to become Earth's closest stellar neighbour in just under 80,000 years as Ross 128 moves towards our planet.
