Daily News Summary
Friday, 29 May 2009
Main stories
`The hidden massacre'
More than 20,000 civilians are reported to have been killed in the final assault on the Tamil Tigers, `most as a result' of Sri Lanka's `government shelling'. Times1-2, 6-10
MoD admits use of 'enhanced blast' weapons
`British pilots in Afghanistan are firing an increasing number' of "enhanced blast" weapons, which warheads are made with a `mixture of chemicals' and which are `designed to kill everyone in buildings they strike'. Gdn4
Social mobility 'falls under Labour'
Figures suggest children from the poorest families are `missing out on university places'. DT12
`Six years left' to cut carbon emissions
Experts warn - is anybody listening? Times21, DTel15, Ind2
`MPs' £1m payoff (and another £12.5m for pensions)'
The `golden goodbyes that the 12 MPs giving up their seats will receive from the taxpayer'. Ind1-2, Times4. `Labour MPs seek lifeboat': 52 are asking for life peerages. Gdn1-2 and 33, DMail2
Other stories
Welfare-to-work contracts `total £2bn'
In the latest of the PFI initiatives, `the government's flagship long-term unemployed scheme'. FT4
The under-reporting of rape
`Nearly 50,000 rapes take place in the UK every year, but only a few are covered by the media'. GdnG214-15
`Secret Iraqi prison photos "show rape"'
It is reported that `graphic images of US soldiers raping and torturing Iraqi prisoners' are among the photos the Obama administration is refusing to release. DMail19
Oil firms and loggers 'push indigenous people to brink of extinction'
The semi-nomadic groups live in the forests of Peru, Brazil and Paraguay. Gdn19
Overdraft rates `soar'
Barclays is `pushing up' eight out of its 12 current account overdraft rates. `The top rate is now 19.3 per cent'. `Other lenders are now certain to follow suit'. DExp1
Comment and analysis
Regulators and reform
`Banking supervisors failed to anticipate the crisis.' Times2, FT4
`The pernicious pinkification of little girls'
Antonia Senior finds the link between princess costumes and the number of women graduates in maths and science. Times31
Animal welfare?
The latest research to facilitate the use of monkeys for vivisection `illustrates once more the grotesque depths to which experimentation on our closest animal relatives can descend'. Gdn35
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