News Headlines - 10 April 2014

▽BBC News - Omagh bombing: Background

High profile republican Seamus Daly has been charged with murdering 29 people in the Real IRA bomb attack on Omagh in 1998.
The attack was the single worst atrocity during more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.

▽US the latest battleground in Scottish referendum debate | theguardian.com

The United States may not have a say in Scotland's forthcoming independence referendum but that has not prevented leaders from both sides of the debate from seeking to sway opinion and enlist support in Washington and New York.

▽Israel imposes economic sanctions against Palestinians : euronews

Israel imposed economic sanctions against the Palestinians on Thursday in retaliation for their leadership signing international conventions, moves that further complicate U.S. efforts to keep peace talks from collapsing before an April 29 deadline.

▽Scientists name world's 100 most unique and endangered birds | theguardian.com

Scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Yale University assessed the world's 9,993 bird species according to their evolutionary distinctiveness and global extinction risk to produce a list of the world's 100 most Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (Edge) species.

▽Early humans had children with Neanderthals- study - The Voice of Russia

A real genetic shake-up came about as a team of scientists compared the full genomes of the two species. They concluded that most Europeans and Asians have between 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA, which would, most importantly, help to reveal if the Neanderthals died out altogether. Most experts grew increasingly uncertain about this.