News Headlines - 09 August 2013
▽Japan’s Debt Looks Like This - 1,000,000,000,000,000 Yen - NYTimes.com
Japan’s soaring national debt, already more than twice the size of its economy, has reached a new milestone, surpassing one quadrillion yen.
▽BBC News - Boycott websites which don't tackle abuse, says Cameron
Social networking websites which do not "step up to the plate" and tackle online abuse should be boycotted, the prime minister has said.
▽Thirty years on: IRA finally admits killing prison officer Brian Stack - Independent.ie
Thirty years on from the gun attack on Brian Stack, his sons were driven in a blacked-out van last week to an undisclosed location where a former Provo chief admitted responsibility. In a statement, typed up on an old typewriter and handed to Austin and Oliver Stack in a bungalow somewhere in Ireland, the IRA said the shooting was not sanctioned.
▽Kenyan Inquiries Find No Sign of Explosion in Airport Fire, President Says - NYTimes.com
President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya said Friday that investigations into the huge fire that razed parts of the international airport here, East Africa’s largest, had found no evidence of an explosion or an explosive device.
Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom's 'bongo-bongo land' comment may have landed him in hot water this week. But what about his and other Ukip members' sexist views of women? Cathy Newman investigates.
