News Headlines - 08 August 2015

▽Japan marks 70th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing - The Scotsman

Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima yesterday, with Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewing calls for US President Barack Obama and other world leaders to step up efforts toward making a nuclear-weapons-free world.

▽Japan’s pacifist stance under threat - FT.com

Three days later at 11.01am, a second mushroom cloud consumed the skies above Nagasaki: towering over the zone where thousands more lives had been vaporised, forcing Japan to accept that no quantity of courage and guns could win what was now a nuclear war.

▽Jenson Button gassed in ￡300k villa robbery | The Sun

JENSON Button and his wife Jessica lay unconscious and defenceless in bed as burglars ransacked their room and took her ￡250,000 engagement ring.
The couple were gassed in their sleep by raiders at a holiday villa they were renting in the south of France.

Virgin Atlantic surveyed its cabin and ground crews about the most frequent excuses they hear from passengers seeking free upgrades to first class. They said that a fictional friendship with Branson, the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group conglomerate, is a "popular tactic."

▽New shrimp-like species found off southwest coast of Ireland

Two new species of shrimp-like crustaceans have been discovered off the south-west coast of Ireland by British researchers.
The two species are amphipods, small scavenging crustaceans around 3mm in length. Their discovery was reported in the scientific journal Zootaxa, in a paper by researchers Dr Tammy Horton and Dr Michael Thurston of the National Oceanography Centre in Southhampton.