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Link Removed due to 404 Error TRIPOLI, Libya – Moammar Gadhafi struck a defiant stance Thursday after two high-profile defections from his regime, saying he's not the one who should go — it's the Western leaders who have decimated his military with airstrikes who should resign immediately...

Japan appeared resigned on Monday to a long fight to contain the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years after high radiation levels complicated work at its crippled nuclear plant. Engineers have been battling to control the six-reactor Fukushima complex since it was damaged by a March 11...

The most difficult thing in a nuclear crisis, the Tokyo firefighter said, was the inability to sense where the danger was. The Tokyo Fire Department's elite rescue team was among those called in to cool down a nuclear plant north of the capital that was badly damaged by a March 11 earthquake...

JERUSALEM – A bomb struck a crowded bus stop in central Jerusalem Wednesday, killing one woman and wounding more than 20 other people in what authorities said was the first major Palestinian militant attack in the city in several years. The bombing brought back memories of the second...

Police say that package exploded next to Egged bus 74 opposite Binyanei Ha'uma in central Jerusalem; Netanyahu delaying departure for Moscow. An explosion took place on or near a bus in central Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon. Police said that a bomb exploded outside Egged bus number 74 at...

Efforts to restore power to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan were stalled by smoke billowing from reactors yesterday. A cable that could allow cooling systems to be restored was attached to reactor No.2 – one of six at the tsunami-hit facility. But engineers had to...

Link Removed due to 404 Error 20:00 JST March 19: One of six tsunami-crippled nuclear reactors appeared to stabilize on Saturday as Japan raced to restore power to the stricken power plant to cool it and prevent a greater catastrophe. Engineers reported some rare success after fire trucks...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Explosions. Radiation. Evacuations. More than 30 years after Three Mile Island, the unfolding crisis in Japan has brought back some of the worst nightmares surrounding nuclear power — and restarted a major debate about the merits and the drawbacks of this energy...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's baseball players' union has hit out at the decision of the Central League to start its season on schedule on March 25 while the country continues to battle the aftermath of last week's earthquake. Thousands died when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit Japan last Friday...

A spokesman says the fourth reactor at a damaged nuclear plant is now on fire; more radiation has been released, and it's enough in nearby areas to have an impact on health. Japan's prime minister says radiation has spread from the damaged reactors and warned of risks of more leaks. People...

Prime minister Naoto Kan warned there is danger of more leaks and told people living within 19 miles (30 kilometers) of Fukushima complex to stay indoors to avoid exposure that could make people sick. Around 70,000 people had already been evacuated from a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius, and...

Police hope a man in Florida will think long and hard before he prank calls 911 again. Investigators in Broward County say 28-year-old Matthew Wade Douglas Jr. is responsible for two obscene 911 calls in which a man graphically described symptoms -- and raunchy home remedies -- following an...

The aftermath of the huge earthquake and tsunami is Japan's worst crisis since World War II, the country's prime minister Naoto Kan has declared. It also resulted in a tsunami that saw huge waves obliterate towns along Japan's north-east coast and officials now believe the final death...

• Up to 10,000 feared dead in Miyagi prefecture alone • Cooling system fails at a second nuclear plant • Japan PM: "worst crisis since WWII" • 190 people exposed to radiation • Original quake upgraded to magnitude 9 • Over 250 aftershocks so far Japan tsunami and earthquake - Live coverage

A Malaysian landlord received a rather unpleasant surprise when he went to collect rent from some tenants and found his property had disappeared. All that remained of Zuria Ali's house, which he had inherited from his parents, were 24 concrete pillar holders, a smashed TV and pieces of...

IDG News Service - A Nevada student who gave the opening address at his high school graduation last year has been charged with breaking into his school district's computer system and bumping up his classmates' grades for a fee. Police say Tyler Coyner, 19, was the ringleader in a group of 13...

March 12, 2010 Microsoft confirmed today that security update for its Excel Spreadsheet had turned English text in an important Windows tool into Chinese. The admission was the second in the past two days from Microsoft's Office team of a gaffe involving a recent security update. Fridays...

Ok I have been gone for a couple of weeks, death in the family. Now I am back and I see the IE 8 is no longer in beta. Am I correct in this assumption. When I turned on my computer for the first time in 15 days I was swamped by emails and MS updates. In one of the updates was IE 8, which I...