Japan resorts to desperate measures to battle nuclear threat
Pouring concrete into a crippled reactor at Japan's Fukishima Nuclear Plant is the latest idea.
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Pouring concrete into a crippled reactor at Japan's Fukishima Nuclear Plant is the latest idea.
Fishermen who lost their homes and boats in Japan's tsunami now fear radioactive water gushing into the Pacific Ocean from a crippled nuclear plant could cost them their livelihoods.
A visibly frustrated President Barack Obama emerged from a failed meeting on a budget deal and said he would demand daily sessions with House Speaker John Boehner until an agreement was hammered out to prevent a US government shutdown at week's end.
A rebel military leader has lashed out at NATO, saying it is falling short in its mission to protect Libyan civilians.
There's concern in many countries, including New Zealand, about declining honey bee numbers and the effect it could have on pollinating crops.
Ivory Coast's strongman leader Laurent Gbagbo holed up in a bunker inside the presidential residence, defiantly maintaining he won the election four months ago even as troops backing the internationally recognised winner encircled the home.
Britain and Pakistan have an "unbreakable" bond, the British Prime Minister said during a visit to Islamabad on Tuesday.
Surrounded by troops backing Ivory Coast's democratically elected leader, Laurent Gbagbo huddled in a bunker with his family.
Libyan government forces unleashed a withering bombardment of rebels outside a key oil town Tuesday.
British police have arrested The News of the World's former editor and former chief reporter.
A nation that prides itself on fighting the abuse of power has an obligation to prevent sexual violence in schools and on college campuses, US Vice President Joe Biden said as he kicked off a nationwide awareness campaign on schools' responsibilities and victims' rights.
US Air Force and Marine attack planes struck targets in Libya on a stretch of Mediterranean coastline near the cities of Sirte and Brega on Monday, the final day of planned US combat missions in the North African nation, US officials said.
Underwater robots have spotted part of the cabin, bodies and engines of an Air France plane on the Atlantic Ocean floor - nearly two years after it crashed in 2009.
The United Nations and French forces have opened fire with attack helicopters on the arsenal of this country's entrenched ruler, as columns of foot soldiers allied with his challenger finally pierced the city limit.
Britain has announced it will supply communications equipment to Libyan rebels to help them withstand attacks by Moammar Gadhafi's regime.
A diplomatic push by Moammar Gadhafi's regime ran into trouble as opponents at home and abroad rejected any solution to the Libyan conflict that would involve one of his sons taking power.
Irish Republican Army dissidents responsible for killing a new Catholic police recruit in Northern Ireland are waging a pointless "war against peace" that has unified the community in anger, Northern Ireland's security and political leaders declared.
A United Nations helicopter fired at strongman Laurent Gbagbo's forces as France authorised its military to take out his heavy weapons, an unprecedented escalation in the international community's efforts to oust the entrenched leader.
A dog rescued from drifting ocean debris immediately jumped to her owner and wagged her tail at their reunion more than three weeks after Japan's tsunami.
Workers have begun pumping more than 3 million gallons of contaminated water from Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.
US President Barack Obama has formally launched his re-election campaign.