News Headlines - 06 March 2016

▽Japan very nearly lost Tokyo - NZ Herald News

Five years after Fukushima, the then prime minister reveals the 'paper-thin' margin that stood between his country and an unimaginable future.

▽Donald Trump embodies how great republics meet their end - FT.com

Why has this happened? The answer is that this is how a wealthy donor class, dedicated to the aims of slashing taxes and shrinking the state, obtained the footsoldiers and voters it required. This, then, is “pluto-populism”: the marriage of plutocracy with rightwing populism. Mr Trump embodies this union. But he has done so by partially dumping the free-market, low tax, shrunken government aims of the party establishment, to which his financially dependent rivals remain wedded. That gives him an apparently insuperable advantage. Mr Trump is no conservative, elite conservatives complain. Precisely. That is also true of the party’s base.

▽Nancy Reagan dies at 94; first lady was a defining figure of the 1980s - The Washington Post

Nancy Reagan, a former film actress whose crowning role was that of vigilant guardian of President Ronald Reagan’s interests and legacy, died March 6 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 94.

▽Robert Mugabe to nationalise Zimbabwe's diamond industry | The Guardian

The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has said his government will take possession of all diamond operations because existing miners had robbed the country of its wealth.

▽Office etiquette: Five rules for eating at your desk - BBC News

Just over half of us regularly work through our lunch breaks, a recent BBC study found.
In the US, more than three-quarters of workers regularly eat at their desk, according to research by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.