News Headlines - 29 May 2013

▽Welsh earthquake shakes Ireland - UTV Live News

The quake, which had a magnitude of 3.8, happened in the Irish Sea about 13km from the Welsh town of Abersoch in Gwynedd shortly after 4am on Wednesday. Almost 100 people across Wales, England, and the Isle of Man say they felt tremors.

▽The Banality of Merkel | Foreign Affairs

With a general election approaching in Germany this fall, Angela Merkel finds herself mired in a scandal about her communist upbringing. The belated reckoning with Merkel's past reveals little about the chancellor's political sympathies -- and plenty about the German public's historical ignorance.

▽Newspaper ed guilty over Michaela photos - UTV Live News

A Mauritian newspaper editor who published pictures of Michaela McAreavey's body has been found guilty of outraging public and religious morality.

▽Video: Watch record-breaking Everest base jump filmed on daredevil's helmet camera - Telegraph

Russian extreme sports star Valery Rozov successfully carries out the world’s highest base jump, leaping off the north face of Mount Everest.

▽'Mars rat' spied by NASA's Curiosity rover | Fox News

Is that a rat on Mars? A photo from the mast camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals the dusty orange, rock-strewn surface of the Red Planet -- and what starry-eyed enthusiasts claim is a dusty orange rodent hiding among the stones.