European Morning: 'Brexit' Talks Could Stretch 10 Years, British Official Warns

View in [Browser] Add [nytdirect@nytimes.com] to your address book. [Unsubscribe] [The New York Times] [NYT Apps] | [[The New York Times] Today's Headlines] Friday, December 16, 2016 IN THIS EMAIL [NYT] [World] | [Business] | [Technology] | [Sports] | [U.S. News] | [Opinion] Top News [Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain arrived at the European Union summit in Brussels on Thursday.] ['Brexit' Talks Could Stretch 10 Years, British Official Warns] By STEPHEN CASTLE Britain seems to still be struggling to devise a coherent discussion plan as the deadline approaches to start negotiations to leave the European Union. [From left: Prime Minister Charles Michel of Belgium; President François Hollande of France; Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission; and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece at the European Union summit meeting in Brussels on Thursday.] [What E.U. Leaders Are Wrestling With at the End of a Tough Year] By JAMES KANTER Officials tiptoed through a geopolitical minefield as they gathered in Brussels for their end-of-year summit meeting. Here's a guide to the thorniest issues. [The Hohenasperg prison hospital in Asperg, Germany, where the Afghan suspect in the case of a murdered medical student has been transferred.] [Germany Didn't Know Migrant Held in Killing Had Violent Past in Greece] By MELISSA EDDY The news about an Afghan asylum seeker raised concerns about Europe's ability to enforce laws within the 26 countries that allow for free cross-border travel. For more top news, go to [INYT.com] ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks [Nine parks and green spaces in Paris have been closed either partly or entirely because of a rat problem.] WORLD | Paris Journal [Rodents Run Wild in Paris. Blame the European Union.] By ALISSA J. RUBIN Rat invasion is an old problem in Paris, and also a new one. New methods of poisoning the creatures aren't working so well. [.][Oh, Rats! A Quiz] [A mosque in Berlin during the annual Open Mosque Day in October.] OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [Why Islam Gets Second-Class Status in Germany] By ALEXANDER GÖRLACH There are 4.3 million Muslims in the country, yet their faith is legally nonexistent. World [An older man was evacuated from a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday.] [Aleppo Evacuation Effort Restarts, and Assad Calls It History in the Making] By BEN HUBBARD and HWAIDA SAAD Some 3,000 people were evacuated from the remaining rebel-held districts of Aleppo, and President Bashar al-Assad claimed a great victory. [Moaza al-Matrooshi with her husband, Ahmed, and their newborn son. Doctors said the birth could pave the way for restoring fertility to women who suffer cancer and other illnesses at an early age.] ['It's Like a Miracle': Woman Gives Birth Using Ovary Frozen Since Childhood] By KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA Tissue from the cryogenically preserved ovary of a child who was 9 was reimplanted in her 14 years later and she was able to conceive. [China Suggests It Has Placed Weapons on Disputed Spratly Islands in South China Sea] By CHRIS BUCKLEY China's plan to strengthen its claims over the islands has raised tensions with neighbors and the United States over freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World] Business [Christine Lagarde, chief of the International Monetary Fund, before the start of her trial in Paris this week.] [Lagarde Case Is 'Weak,' French Prosecutor Says, Raising Chances of Acquittal] By LIZ ALDERMAN The prosecutor wrapped up a four-day trial against Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, who is accused of "negligence by a person in a position of public authority." [An independent committee of Sky's directors indicated that it would recommend that shareholders accept the offer from 21st Century Fox.] [21st Century Fox Reaches $14.8 Billion Deal for Remainder of Sky] By CHAD BRAY The offer came as British politicians called for a review of whether the deal would concentrate too much media power in the hands of Rupert Murdoch. [Suzy Scherr in her kitchen on Thursday with her Cuisinart food processor in Chappaqua, N.Y. ] [Cuisinart Recall 'Just Screwed Up the Holidays for a Lot of People'] By KIM SEVERSON Trouble with blades in the food processor has led to one of the largest appliance recalls on record and has cooks checking their machines. For more business news, go to [INYT.com/Business] Technology [The new fake news feature on Facebook, as the site makes an effort to flag articles that are not true.] [Facebook Mounts Effort to Limit Tide of Fake News] By MIKE ISAAC Facebook said on Thursday that it had begun introducing a series of experiments to limit misinformation and false articles on its site. [The Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference and Hackathon in New York last year. Yahoo's sale to Verizon could be in jeopardy.] [Hacked Yahoo Data Is for Sale on Dark Web] By VINDU GOEL and NICOLE PERLROTH A security researcher says hackers are offering records of more than 1 billion users, but as with the company's stock, the price is dropping. [A woman getting fake eyelashes in Beijing. The belief that some Chinese see beauty as a means to success has given rise to the photo app Meitu. The app allows users to create idealized versions of themselves.] [China's Meitu, an Aspirational Beauty App, Goes Public] By AMIE TSANG and EMILY FENG The popular software gives users power to lighten their skin and reshape their faces - a definition of beauty that may not work in other places. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Tech] ADVERTISEMENT Sports [Francesco Totti, a native Roman, has played his entire career with A.S. Roma: 23 years and counting. He hopes to end his playing days in a Roma jersey.] [A Roman to the Core, and the Core of Roma] By RORY SMITH Francesco Totti, a native Roman, has played his entire career with A.S. Roma: 23 years and counting. He hopes to end his playing days in a Roma jersey. [Julia Wittig swimming in the one-kilometer race during the Ice Cup event held this month in Burghausen, Germany.] [For Swimmers With Ice Water in Their Veins, an Event to Match] By ANDREW KEH The sport of ice swimming, done in water about 41 degrees or less, is attracting interest in spite of its dangers, or perhaps because of them. [The heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, left, as the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad spoke in Chicago in 1967.] [F.B.I. Monitored Muhammad Ali Connections to Nation of Islam] By VICTOR MATHER Newly released documents from 1966 show that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had informants who let the agency know the details of the boxer's involvement with the group led by Elijah Muhammad. For more sports news, go to [INYT.com/Sports] U.S. News [Robert E. Anderson Jr., center, served until last year as the F.B.I.'s most senior executive overseeing computer investigations.] [U.S. Faces Tall Hurdles in Detaining or Deterring Russian Hackers] By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO Russia says American efforts to capture hackers may violate international law and has shown that it will not be easily influenced by public shaming. [Dylann Roof listened to the proceedings with one of his lawyers, William Maguire, at a hearing in in July 2015.] [Dylann Roof Found Guilty in Charleston Church Massacre] By ALAN BLINDER and KEVIN SACK The jury heard the case of Dylann S. Roof, a white man who killed nine black people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. [Impaired muscle repair in mice, left, compared with improved muscle regeneration seen after reprogramming.] [Scientists Say the Clock of Aging May Be Reversible] By NICHOLAS WADE The technique, discovered by a team at the Salk Institute and tested in mice, cannot be applied directly to people, but it points toward better understanding of human aging. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US] Opinion [An Israeli family in the Jewish settlement Amona in the West Bank this month.] Op-Ed | Shmuel Rosner [No, Settlers Don't Control Israeli Politics] By SHMUEL ROSNER If they did, why would the government be preparing to evacuate a hilltop outpost in the West Bank? [Monitors showed President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela at the 10th anniversary of his weekly television show, ] Op-Ed Contributor [Will Democracy Survive Trump's Populism? Latin America May Tell Us] By CARLOS DE LA TORRE The region shows how populist leaders make their own rules and undermine the democratic system. [On the campus of New York University Abu Dhabi. The failure of Georgetown and N.Y.U. to call out the suppression of critical speech suggests the complicity that gulf money buys.] Op-Ed Contributor [American Universities in a Gulf of Hypocrisy] By KRISTINA BOGOS By soft-pedaling criticism of their Qatari and Emirati paymasters, U.S. schools are compromising academic freedom. For more opinion, go to [INYT.com/Opinion] FOLLOW US: [Facebook] [Facebook] | [Twitter] [@NYTimes] | [Pinterest] [Pinterest] | [Instagram] [Instagram] [NYT] Access The New York Times from anywhere with our suite of apps: [iPhone®] | [iPad®] | [Android] | [All] [.] Save 15% at [The NYTimes Store »] [.] Have questions? visit our [Help Section »] [.] Visit our mobile website at [m.nyt.com »] About This Email This is an automated email. Please do not reply directly to this email. You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's Today's Headlines European Morning newsletter. 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