News Headlines - 05 March 2015

▽BBC News - South Korea US envoy Lippert 'well' after knife attack

A militant Korean nationalist has slashed the face of the US ambassador to South Korea at a breakfast meeting in Seoul, but the envoy was not seriously hurt.

▽Despite blanket ban in India, BBC airs Nirbhaya documentary Indias Daughter - Oneindia

Defying Indian Government's ban order, BBC on Wednesday night telecast the controversial documentary 'India's Daughter,' based on the December 2012 Delhi gang-rape, in the UK and other countries.

▽Toyota Opts to Diversify Senior Posts - WSJ

Toyota Motor Corp. tapped a foreigner as an executive vice president for the first time in the company’s nearly eight-decade history, in an attempt by the Japanese auto maker to shake up the ranks of its largely uniform senior management.

▽‘Pear Fairy’ Funassyi Shakes Up Japanese Character World - WSJ

A little more than two years ago, Japan Real Time reported that Kumamon, a popular bear character representing a southern region of Japan, was “the face of a movement” and captured better than anyone else the craze surrounding Japan’s mascot boom.

▽BBC News - 'First human' discovered in Ethiopia

Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans.
The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged.