Weekly news 19/20

Twitter

Twitter may be about to end its three-month search for a new CEO where it started: with once-ousted co-founder Jack Dorsey running the short-messaging service.

Mr Dorsey will be named Twitter's permanent CEO as early as Thursday, according to the technology news site Re/Code.

Twitter declined to comment.

Mr Dorsey took over as Twitter's interim CEO in July, replacing former stand-up comedian and veteran entrepreneur Dick Costolo. The change in command came amid slowing user growth that exacerbated investor concerns about the Twitter's ability to become more accessible to a wider audience.

Twitter has more than 300m users, far behind the 1.5bn people hooked on Facebook's online social network. Even Facebook's photo-sharing application, Instagram, has surpassed Twitter in size.

Third body found at scene of Paris attacks police raid in St-Denis

A third body has been found in a terrorist hideout north of Paris that was the scene of a ferocious shootout with police, French officials said, as European Union ministers met for emergency talks on tightening border security.

The Paris public prosecutor said a third, as yet unidentified person had died in the seven-hour siege in St-Denis on Wednesday alongside Abdelhamid Abaaoud, theIslamic State extremist suspected of planning the Paris attacks that left 129 people dead last Friday, and a woman thought to be his cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen.

EU ministers meeting in Brussels were set to announce radical changes to border security after it emerged that Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian national living in Syria, had been able to enter Europe and travel round the bloc seemingly at will.

“Terrorists are crossing the borders of the European Union,” the French interior minister, Bernard Cazaneuve, said at the opening of the meeting, calling on ministers to adopt urgently an EU-wide system for airline passenger information. “We can’t take any more time. This is urgent.”