FUKUSHIMA, Japan, March 16,2011 - Workers at a quake-damaged atomic power plant briefly suspended operations and evacuated Wednesday after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous to remain there, dealing a setback to Japan's frantic efforts to stem a nuclear crisis.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio E

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14 March 2011 (Reuters) : LONDON - The risk of a major radiation leak in Japan is subsiding as stricken nuclear reactors cool, but there will be major clean-up costs and three reactors will probably be written off, experts said on Monday.A massive earthquake and tsunami on Friday knocked out cooling

TOKYO, March 14, 2011 (AP):Japanese officials say they believe a hydrogen explosion has occurred at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichii nuclear plant, similar to an earlier one at a different unit in the facility.The Tokyo Electric Power Company said that three persons have been injured and seven we

KORIYAMA, Japan: Japanese officials warned of a possible second explosion at a nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami as they raced to stave off multiple reactor meltdowns, but they provided few details about whether they were making progress. More than 180,000 people have evacuated

TOKYO, March 12,2011: Japanese authorities confirmed Saturday that radiation had leaked from a quake-hit nuclear plant after an explosion rocked the site.The blast at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility occurred just hours after officials said they feared a reactor could melt down.Footage on Japa

Tokyo March 11,2011 (Agancies): A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it swept away boats, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out of control.Hours later, the tsunami hit Hawaii and war

Washington, Mar 7, (PTI): An octogenarian Hindu religious leader, head of a Hindu ashram, one of the largest temples in the US, has been convicted of molesting two young girls.The girls, many of whose family members serve at the ashram 'Barsana Dham', a 200-acre Hindu ashram located in Austin. alleg

CAIRO, Mar 02, 2011 (AFP): Toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is receiving medical treatment for cancer in Saudi Arabia, according to a report in the state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper on Wednesday."Mubarak is currently in a military base in the city of Tabuk and is receiving treatment for colon

UNITED NATIONS, 27 February 2011 (reuters): The UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously imposed what Washington said were "biting sanctions" in the form of travel bans and asset freezes on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his family.The resolution adopted by the 15-nation council also called fo

Christchurch, February 22, 2011 (Agencies): A powerful earthquake struck one of New Zealand's biggest cities Tuesday at the height of a busy workday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing at least 65 people in one of the country's worst natural disasters.It was the second

CAIRO, 21 February 2011, (AP): Deep cracks open up in Moammar Gadhafi's regime after more than 40 years in power, with diplomats abroad and the justice minister at home resigning, air force pilots defecting and a fire raging at the main government hall after clashes in the capital Tripoli.Protesters

The US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlements as "illegal" and called for an immediate halt to all settlement building. All 14 other Security Council members voted in favour of the resolution, which was backed by the Palestine Liberation Organisatio

YANGON, Feb 16,2011 (AP): From almost the moment Le Yati Min was born, her mother knew the girl had a little something extra.'I asked the nurses whether my kid was born complete with hands and legs,' says her mother. 'They replied that the baby even has more than she needs.'Born with 12 fingers and

London - 15 Feb 2011: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is "very sick" and has fainted on at least one occasion at the Red Sea holiday villa in Sharm el-Sheikh where he was sent into internal exile, media reports say. Locals in the resort city said they were told by Mubarak's guards that he wa

London, Feb 15, (PTI) : The ingredients of Coca Cola have always been a mystery. Now, a website claims to have uncovered the soft drink's top secret recipe which is said to be guarded 24 hours a day in a vault in Atlanta, Georgia.'Thisamericanlife.org' claims to have discovered a list in a photograp

Cairo: A day after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military on Saturday banned top officials from travelling outside the country to ensure that former presidential loyalists don't flee.The ban comes into force immediately, an official announcement from the new regime said as Army removed b

CAIRO: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and the vice president has named a military council to run the country's affairs, state television said on Friday after 18 days of mass protests against his rule. A ruling party official said earlier that Mubarak and his family had left Cairo