News Headlines - 07 March 2016
The U.S. and South Korea have started their largest-ever annual joint military exercises amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula — and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to respond to the exercises with a nuclear offensive.
The UK is facing the threat of "enormous and spectacular attacks" by Islamic State (IS) as the extremist group aims to wage war on Western lifestyles, the national head of counter-terrorism has warned.
▽Oxfordshire hit by earthquake measuring 2.3 on Richter scale - Telegraph
An earthquake with a magnitude of 2.3 has been recorded in Oxfordshire, the British Geological Survey has confirmed.
The small quake was centred in the Thame area at 11.12pm on Sunday and residents said they felt their houses shaking.
▽Nintendo to build ￡250m Super Mario theme park in Japan
Nintendo is planning to build a ￡250 million theme park in Japan in time for the Tokyo Olympics, according to reports.
The world's first theme park based on Nintendo games is due to be set in Universal Studios Japan, and will have a Super Mario focus, according to the Japanese publication Sankei.
▽Microsoft to close Lionhead Studios – cans Fable Legends | The Guardian
Microsoft is set to close the UK game development studio Lionhead and has canned its forthcoming title Fable Legends.
Hanno Lemke, the general manager of Microsoft Studios Europe, announced the decision in a blog post on the Xbox news site. In the same article, posted to the site on Monday afternoon, Lemke announced that the Danish studio Press Play would also be closed.
