News Headlines - 10 September 2014

▽Obama to authorise air strikes against Isis in Syria | theguardian.com

The US is planning a sustained and systematic campaign of air strikes against Islamic State (Isis) militants that will include for the first time identifying targets in Syria, as Barack Obama announces plans for a more aggressive than expected military offensive to defeat the group.

▽Canada finds British explorer ship that vanished in Arctic over 160 years ago | Mail Online

The fate of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, two British ships lost at sea while searching for the Northwest Passage, has been a mystery that has baffled Naval historians for more than 160 years... Yesterday the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that underwater drones using sonar had located one of the two boats at the bottom of the Victoria Strait, near King William Island, Nunavut.

▽Neo-Nazi photos pose headache for Shinzo Abe | The Guardian

Barely a week after Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, overhauled his administration amid flagging popularity, two of his senior colleagues have been forced to distance themselves from rightwing extremism after photographs emerged of them posing with the country’s leading neo-Nazi.

▽BBC News - Murdoch: 'Page 3 is old fashioned'

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has suggested Page 3 models in the Sun newspaper should start wearing clothes.
The head of News Corp - the Sun's parent company - wrote on Twitter that topless models were "old fashioned", although he said the paper's readers "seem to disagree".

▽Japan to restart nuclear reactors | theguardian.com

Japan's nuclear watchdog has given the green light for two reactors to restart but the operator still has to persuade local communities they are safe.