News Headlines - 09 April 2012

▽Syria peace deal nears collapse - The Press Association
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5j6UBqw3Y9Zl2a4k4Cvat-piqmWVg?docId=N0191151333930240054A
A UN-brokered plan to stop the bloodshed in Syria has effectively collapsed after President Bashar Assad's government raised new, last-minute demands that the country's largest rebel group swiftly rejected.

▽Syrian forces fire on Turkish refugee camp - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/09/syrian-forces-injure-three-turkish-refugee-camp
Syrian forces have fired across the border into Turkey, hitting a refugee camp in the latest incident to fuel mounting international concern about escalating violence hours before a UN deadline to end the crisis.

▽The Queen makes Camilla a Dame Grand Cross - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17654777
The Duchess of Cornwall has been made a Dame Grand Cross, the highest female rank in the Royal Victorian Order.

▽Sony to Cut Estimated 10,000 Jobs - Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303772904577333162194832288.html
Sony Corp. plans to reduce its work force by an estimated 10,000 jobs, or about 6% of its global staff, as part of new Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai's restructuring plan, people familiar with the matter said Monday.

▽Eco-friendly ice cream firm plan to power dairy farm using slurry from 400-strong herd of cows - Scottish Daily Record
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/science-and-technology/2012/04/09/eco-friendly-ice-cream-firm-plan-to-power-dairy-farm-using-slurry-from-400-strong-herd-of-cows-86908-23819143/
AN ICE cream company are hoping to turn slurry from their 400-strong herd of cows into biofuel to help power their dairy farm.