News Headlines - 17 September 2012
▽Royals Seek Criminal Charges Over Kate Photos
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will later a lodge a criminal complaint in France over topless pictures of Kate that appeared in a French magazine.
▽US, Libya differ on accounts of US consulate attck in Benghazi - Hindustan Times
Top US and Libyan officials have offered starkly different accounts about the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that left the ambassador and three other Americans dead.
▽Japanese firms shut China plants, U.S. urges calm in islands row | Reuters
Major Japanese firms have temporarily shut factories and offices in China after angry protests flared across the country, the result of a territorial dispute that has triggered one of China's worst outbreaks of anti-Japan sentiment in decades.
▽Japan counts the cost of nuclear withdrawal - FT.com
Japan’s decision to phase out nuclear power by 2040 has left some of its biggest technology companies facing an awkward question: how do you sell a product that your own government has effectively banned?
▽Japan and UK economies have 'eerie parallels' - Telegraph
If Japan - where experts fear a debt and deficit disaster - is Britain’s future, there is much to fear.