News Headlines - 08 March 2011

▽Barcelona 3-1 Arsenal (Barcelona win 4-3 on agg) | Champions League - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/08/barcelona-arsenal-champions-league
Arsenal were far closer to Barcelona this year and elimination is all the more painful since they stood at 1-1 in this match, with a 3-2 lead in the Champions League tie, before Robin van Persie was shown a second yellow card for playing on after Massimo Busacca had blown his whistle. The referee was convinced that the sound had not gone unheard.

▽UK 'over-reliant' on GPS signals, engineers warn - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12668230
Use of space-borne positioning and timing data is now widespread, in everything from freight movement to synchronisation of computer networks.
The academy fears that too many applications have little or no back-up were these signals to go down.

▽US official's 'mockery' of Okinawa angers Japan - AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jgmtoADZ7mHRW5eQ8k1Ofx4GqQLQ?docId=CNG.6a3f0a68a603df735060c8e17b063a0f.91
Japan officially complained Tuesday over derogatory remarks allegedly made by a State Department official about the people of Okinawa island, the reluctant hosts of many American bases.
Kevin Maher, who heads the US State Department's Japanese affairs office, reportedly called Okinawans "lazy" in an off-the-record speech to students in Washington in December.

▽Search for Stockholm bomber's accomplices leads to Scotland - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8369396/Search-for-Stockholm-bombers-accomplices-leads-to-Scotland.html
Investigators are trying to establish whether an al-Qaeda terrorist cell has been operating in Glasgow following the arrest of a man alleged to have been helping the Stockholm suicide bomber.

▽Pro-Gadhafi Forces Attack Rebel-Held Towns in East, West - Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Pro-Gadhafi-Forces-Attack-Rebel-Held-Towns-in-East-West-117604923.html
Libyan government forces attacked rebel-held towns Tuesday in eastern and western areas with airstrikes, rockets and artillery, in a continuing offensive against opposition fighters trying to topple leader Moammar Gadhafi.