News Headlines - 17 April 2012

▽Anders Behring Breivik claims victims were not innocent - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/17/anders-behring-breivik-claims-victims-not-innocent?newsfeed=true
He expressed no regret for planning and carrying out the attacks that left 77 dead last summer. Maintaining he acted out of "goodness, not evil" to prevent a "major civil war", Breivik insisted: "I would have done it again."

▽Repsol vows to fight for $10bn compensation over Argentinian plans to seize control of oil group YPF - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/9208174/Repsol-vows-to-fight-for-10bn-compensation-over-Argentinian-plans-to-seize-control-of-oil-group-YPF.html
Spanish oil giant Repsol said on Tuesday that it will demand compensation of at least $10bn (￡6.27bn) from Argentina if the country completes plans to seize control of its largest oil company.

▽Tokyo to buy disputed islands: Governor - AsiaOne
http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120417-340404.html
Controversial Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara has said taxpayers in Japan's capital will buy a small chain of uninhabited islands at the centre of a damaging territorial dispute with China.

▽Samsung Galaxy SIII ‘official Olympics phone’ - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/samsung/9208754/Samsung-Galaxy-SIII-official-Olympics-phone.html
Samsung’s new Galaxy device is to be unveiled in London because it is to be the official phone of the Olympics, according to reports.

▽Spectacular Solar Flare Erupts From The Sun - Sky News
http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16210137
Nasa has released spectacular images of a powerful solar flare erupting from the sun.
Although measured as "moderate", the sun storm captured by Nasa spacecraft revealed it to be a stunning display of magnetic plasma.