News Headlines - 12 March 2014
Officials have admitted they still have no idea where Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have disappeared and said that planes and ships from 12 separate nations were now searching 27,000 square miles of ocean.
▽Japan top firms raise pay; but benefit seen blunted by sales tax hike | Reuters
Big Japanese companies such as Toyota Motor Corp offered the most generous pay raises in years on Wednesday, a victory for the government's efforts to defeat deflation, but workers will still struggle to offset a looming sales tax increase.
▽Scientist who created STAP stem cells says studies should be withdrawn - latimes.com
A number of scientists have been grumbling for weeks about a pair of breakthrough stem cell studies that seemed too good to be true. Now one of the senior researchers who worked on the papers agrees that they may be right.
▽Prince Charles letters to ministers should be published, judges rule - London Evening Standard
An attempt by the Attorney General to ban the publication of private letters to government ministers from the Prince of Wales has been ruled unlawful by the Appeal Court.
The judges overruled an earlier decision that the letters, known as the black spider memos, to seven government departments acquired under the Freedom of Information Act should be made public.
▽At Least 3 Killed in Gas Blast on East Harlem Block; 2 Buildings Leveled - NYTimes.com
The call to Consolidated Edison came at 9:13 a.m. on Wednesday: The smell of gas, detectable the night before, had strengthened around two buildings by 116th Street and Park Avenue in East Harlem.
