News Roundup - 02 November 2014

1. SpaceShipTwo, a rocket plane that is to carry tourists on a short ride to space, crashed in the Mojave Desert during a test flight, killing one of the two pilots. Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company created by Richard Branson, acknowledged the accident on Twitter. The vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of SpaceShipTwo, said the company. The test flight, the plane’s first under its own power since January and the first since a switch to a new motor, was conducted by Scaled Composites, the designer and builder of SpaceShipTwo.
2. Armour Station TV, which provides train-retailed information to passengers and beams commercials through digital TV screens at key stations, has expanded its operations to Chennai (Egmore), Ahmedabad and Delhi (Hazrat Nizamuddin) stations. The company works on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model with Indian Railways, in which the Railways provide live train running information to Armour’s proprietary software. There are no separate announcements from the Railways at stations where Armour operates. Armour is already operating at Mumbai CST, Mumbai Central, Pune, Bangalore and Chennai Central stations.
3. The Spanish government has successfully passed a new copyright law which imposes fees for online content aggregators such as Google News, in an effort to protect its print media industry.
4. Lithuania on Saturday enacted a ban on selling energy drinks to anyone under 18.

Credits: The Hindu, Google.