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Fukushima leak may have flowed into Pacific: TEPCO

Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)

About 12 tonnes of radioactive water has leaked at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, with the facility's operator saying Thursday that som...

Japan passes $1.1 trillion budget

Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)

Japan passed a 90.3 trillion yen ($1.1 trillion) budget on Thursday, with about half the spending expected to be financed by new bonds that will add to Japan's ...

At least eight dead in Nairobi landslide

Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)

Massive boulders crashed onto houses Wednesday in Mathare, a Nairobi slum, killing at least eight people after a night of heavy rains, police and the Kenyan Red...

Fiji says open for tourists despite floods

Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)

Flood-ravaged Fiji insisted it was "business as usual" for the South Pacific nation's vital tourism industry Wednesday, as officials confirmed the death toll fr...

Health fears as flood-ravaged Fiji begins clean-up

Apr 03, 2012 (AFP)

Flood-ravaged Fiji began a massive clean-up Tuesday, as the South Pacific nation's stretched health services expressed fears disease could quickly spread throug...

Filming in Chernobyl, the 'Land of Oblivion'

Mar 31, 2012 (AFP)

The film had to be shot in Chernobyl. That was the sizeable challenge Michale Boganim set herself for her first feature film, the story of a young bride robbed ...

Japan eases Fukushima re-entry ban in some areas

Mar 31, 2012 (AFP)

Some former residents from the 20-kilometre (12-mile) no-go zone around Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be allowed to visit their ho...

NATO faulted over Libya boat-people deaths

Mar 29, 2012 (AFP)

A European rights watchdog rapped NATO on Thursday for failing to help a migrant boat during the Libyan war as aid groups vowed to sue the French military over ...

Work on new Chernobyl sarcophagus to start next month

Mar 28, 2012 (AFP)

The construction of a new sarcophagus above the defunct Chernobyl Atomic Power Station will begin on April 26, the 26th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear...

Japan: Lessons learned from Fukushima

Mar 28, 2012 (UPI)

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda urged world leaders not to be lulled into a "myth of safety" regarding nuclear power. Speaking Tuesday at the Nuclear Sec...

Record catastrophe claims push Lloyds in heavy loss

Mar 28, 2012 (AFP)

Lloyd's of London insurance market on Wednesday posted its second-largest annual loss owing to record claims for catastrophes including Japan's earthquake disas...

Work on new Chernobyl sarcophogus to start next month

Mar 27, 2012 (AFP)

The construction of a new sarcophagus above the defunct Chernobyl Atomic Power Station will begin on April 26, the 26th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear...

TEPCO execs 'should face poverty' over Fukushima

Mar 26, 2012 (AFP)

A lawyer representing shareholders suing Fukushima nuclear plant operator TEPCO for $68 billion said Monday the company's executives should be prepared for mise...

Money-mad Singapore aims to become non-profit hub

Mar 25, 2012 (AFP)

Singapore has long courted international banks and companies in its drive to become a financial hub. But it is also wooing a very different sector: non-profit g...

Australia braces for cyclone, floods

Mar 17, 2012 (AFP)

A severe tropical cyclone smashed into Western Australia's north coast on Saturday, forcing residents to bunker down as they waited for the destructive gale-for...

China iron mine accident kills 13

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

Thirteen people died after a capsule plunged into a pit at an iron ore mine in China's eastern Shandong province Thursday, official state media reported. The ac...

Manga artist back in the frame after Japan disasters

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

The graphic scenes of real life destruction wreaked by last year's tsunami left manga artist Jiro Taniguchi wondering what the point of his art form was. The 64...

Butterfly molecule may aid quest for nuclear clean-up technology

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists have produced a previously unseen uranium molecule, in a development that could help improve clean-up processes for nuclear waste. The distinctive bu...

Japan strives to win back tourists

Mar 11, 2012 (AFP)

Japanese tourism is still hurting a year after the tsunami and nuclear disaster, industry officials said here, warning that business was only likely to get full...

Japan marks anniversary of tsunami tragedy

Mar 11, 2012 (AFP)

Public life in Japan will pause Sunday as the nation marks a year since a huge earthquake and tsunami killed 19,000 people and changed the lives of hundreds of ...