News Headlines - 02 May 2016
▽Merkel Offered Shinzo Abe NATO Membership, Reports Japanese Press
German Chancellor Angela Merkel unexpectedly proposed that Japan join the NATO alliance during a dinner meeting with Japanese Prime Minister last March, The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported on Saturday.
Left-wing demonstrators burned tyres and hurled fireworks during clashes with police as supporters of a right-wing party gathered for its congress in Stuttgart, south-east Germany.
The demonstrators temporarily blocked access roads to the site of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's annual conference by forming human chains.
Some 400 protesters were detained in violence beginning at 6am and lasting four hours.
▽CIA tweets U.S. military raid that killed Osama bin Laden — five years later - The Washington Post
Navy SEALs may have killed Osama bin Laden in a raid five years ago Sunday, but anyone following the CIA on Twitter might think it all just happened. In a deeply bizarre social marketing move Sunday, the agency “live-tweeted” the raid that led to bin Laden’s death — but it did so five years later.
▽Norwegian Zoo feeds a zebra to tigers in front of kids - BBC Newsbeat
A zoo in Norway has fed a decapitated zebra to tigers in front of visitors, including children... The zoo feeds around 80 zebras, or similar animals, to predators every year.
▽Leicester City win Premier League and cost bookies biggest ever payout
For the few punters bold enough to put cash on the season’s “joke bet”, the result means winnings of up to ￡100,000 each, though the nation’s bookmakers will be less than jubilant: between them they will be paying out ￡25 million, the biggest loss in British history on a single sporting market.
