News Headlines - 12 May 2015

▽Powerful new earthquake hits devastated Nepal - Al Jazeera English

A deadly magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck Nepal, two weeks after a devastating quake killed more than 8,000 people in the Himalayan nation, the USGS has reported.

▽Hosni Mubarak and Sons Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison, Likely to Go Free - NBC News.com

An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in jail without parole on Saturday in the retrial of a corruption case, although the trio is unlikely to go to jail again.

▽Osprey squadron to be stationed at Yokota Air Base in 2017 - Stripes

A special operations squadron of CV-22 Ospreys will be stationed at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo beginning in 2017, the Pentagon said Monday in a long-expected announcement.
Three of the Ospreys will arrive in the second half of 2017, with seven more slated to arrive by 2021, a Defense Department news release said.

▽McDonald’s Japan Seeks Mothers’ Approval - Japan Real Time - WSJ

A day after Mother’s Day in Japan and elsewhere, McDonald's Holdings Co. announced a plan to reach out to mothers across the country to convince them that its food is safe and healthy, and to seek ideas on how to regain the trust that was lost during a series of food-contamination incidents over the past year.

▽SoftBank picks Arora to drive ‘second phase’ of growth - FT.com

For three decades, it was Masayoshi Son who came up with the “crazy ideas” and made huge, high-risk investments that saw SoftBank grow from a little known Japanese telecoms company into a global technology empire.
Now as the company gears up to become an even bigger global powerhouse, Mr Son is turning to the man he views as his successor: Nikesh Arora.