News Headlines - 24 July 2014

▽Revealed: the dirty secret of the UK’s poultry industry | The Guardian

Three of the UK’s leading supermarkets have launched emergency investigations into their chicken supplies after a Guardian investigation uncovered a catalogue of alleged hygiene failings in the poultry industry.

▽Japanese monkeys' abnormal blood linked to Fukushima disaster – study | theguardian.com

Wild monkeys in the Fukushima region of Japan have blood abnormalities linked to the radioactive fall-out from the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster, according to a new scientific study that may help increase the understanding of radiation on human health.

▽Japan Exports Continue to Disappoint - WSJ

Japan's run of monthly trade deficits reached the two-year mark in June as exports fell while imports increased, reinforcing the view that the deficits are here to stay for the once powerful exporter nation.

▽Dramatic pictures show wreckage of Taiwan plane crash that killed 48 people - Mirror Online

These dramatic pictures show the wreckage of the second international airline disaster in less than a week.

▽Less than 10% of human DNA has functional role, claim scientists | The Guardian

More than 90% of human DNA is doing nothing very useful, and large stretches may be no more than biological baggage that has built up over years of evolution, Oxford researchers claim.