News Headlines - 14 April 2016
▽At least nine dead after earthquake hits Japan | World news | The Guardian
At least nine people have been killed and more than 200 injured by a powerful magnitude-6.5 earthquake that knocked over houses and buckled roads in southern Japan on Thursday. The two victims identified first were from the hardest-hit town of Mashiki, about 15km (9 miles) east of Kumamoto city on the island of Kyushu, said Kumamoto prefecture disaster management official, Takayuki Matsushita.
Prosecutors on Thursday arrested Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defence Force chief who unsuccessfully ran in the 2014 Tokyo governor race, for allegedly violating the election law by paying cash to members of his campaign staff.
▽UK and European allies plan to deal ‘hammer blow’ to tax evasion | World news | The Guardian
Britain and its European allies have announced new “hammer blow” rules against tax evasion in direct response to the Panama Papers leak that exposed how the world’s richest and most powerful people hide their wealth from the taxman.
▽Pepsi-Cola Sign in Queens Gains Landmark Status - The New York Times
The Pepsi-Cola sign in Long Island City — a dazzling swirl of red curlicue letters that evokes innocent days of summer, heavy industry in Queens and a spectacular disregard for the waterfront in the mid-20th century — is now an official New York City landmark.
▽Five things we learned from Liverpool v Borussia Dortmund | Daily Express
LIVERPOOL produced one of the greatest European comebacks ever against Borussia Dortmund but what did we learn from the Europa quarter-final second leg?
