News Headlines - 17 September 2015
▽Chile earthquake in pictures: 8.3 magnitude quake triggers tsunami warning - Telegraph
Strong aftershocks rippled through Chile after a magnitude 8.3 earthquake that killed at least eight people and slammed powerful waves into coastal towns, forcing more than a million people from their homes.
▽Global economy worries prompt Fed to hold rates steady | Reuters
The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday in a bow to worries about the global economy, financial market volatility and sluggish inflation at home, but left open the possibility of a modest policy tightening later this year.
Standard & Poor’s on Wednesday lowered Japan’s sovereign debt rating one notch, in the latest sign of concern about Japan’s economic prospects nearly three years after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power.
▽Sick of traffic? Toyota files patent for flying car technology | FOX Sports
Toyota may be looking to give its cars a lift.
The automaker, which has mastered down-to-earth products like the Camry and Rav4, has filed a patent application for a flying car.
Tuna and mackerel populations have suffered a “catastrophic” decline of nearly three quarters in the last 40 years, according to new research.
WWF and the Zoological Society of London found that numbers of the scombridae family of fish, which also includes bonito, fell by 74% between 1970 and 2012, outstripping a decline of 49% for 1,234 ocean species over the same period.
