Hiroshima pays respects to nuclear victims

THE Japanese city of Hiroshima today marked the anniversary of the moment an atomic bomb exploded there 60 years ago. More than 55,000 people gathered in Peace Memorial Park for the occasion which was marked by a moment of silence at 8:15am, the instant of the blast. Around 140,000 people were

UN secretary general Kofi Annan called for concerted action to prevent "a cascade of nuclear proliferation". In Edinburgh, the anniversary was set to be marked at the opening of the Festival of Spirituality and Peace at St John's Church, with poetry readings and music from Japanese and Scottish musicians.