Evidence of partial meltdown prompts higher severity rating
Posted: 10:06 AM Japan's nuclear safety agency says it's raised the severity rating of the country's nuclear crisis after discovering evidence of a partial meltdown.
Posted: 10:06 AM Japan's nuclear safety agency says it's raised the severity rating of the country's nuclear crisis after discovering evidence of a partial meltdown.
Posted: 10:04 AM A rebel group in Ethiopia is appealing for international aid in an ethnically Somali region where the group says drought and a government ban on international aid groups have led to the deaths of children and the elderly.
Updated: 1:00 PM Japan's Transport Ministry says it has imposed a no-fly zone over a 20-mile radius around the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Posted: 12:55 PM Hospital authorities say they have treated a 3-year-old child for alcoholism.
Posted: 12:54 PM Bahrain is the scene of frenzied clashes today between protesters and a Saudi-led military force.
Posted: 12:51 PM A top Israeli naval commander says a cargo ship intercepted at sea was carrying Chinese-made land-to-sea missiles, and there is strong evidence Iran was behind the delivery.
Updated: 6:18 PM Earthquake struck the central, mountainous part of the country hours after a massive quake hit off the country's northeastern coast.
Posted: 11:18 AM Authorities say the pressure is rising at a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan after its cooling system failed.
Posted: 8:51 AM Scientists say the massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan ranks as the fifth largest jolt in the world since 1900.
Updated: 10:05 AM Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey is vacationing on the Hawaiian Islands and has been keeping a close eye on both the local and national media.
Posted: 4:53 PM Colombian authorities say suspected leftist rebels have released 22 of 23 Colombian contractors abducted while doing exploratory work in a remote jungle region for the Canadian oil company Talisman.
Posted: 4:52 PM Police say jewels valued at $25 million, many stolen from the luxury Harry Winston boutique in Paris, have been found in a rain sewer outside Paris.
Posted: 4:50 PM An official with the Red Crescent says soldiers loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have blocked some 30,000 migrant workers from fleeing into Tunisia.
Posted: 4:49 PM James Bond Actor Daniel Craig is giving “Bond Girl” a whole new meaning, dressing up in drag for a short film to support International Women's Day.
Posted: 2:13 PM Hospital officials say an explosion at an ammunition depot in Libya's rebel stronghold of Benghazi has killed at least 17 people.
Posted: 9:55 AM Witnesses and opposition websites say police in Tehran have used tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters demanding the release of opposition leaders.
Posted: 10:03 AM Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning the Taliban and other extremists in Afghanistan they must choose between war and peace as the U.S. increases military pressure on them.
Updated: 11:05 AM Egypt's Vice President says Hosni Mubarak has resigned as president and handed control to the military.
Updated: 4:13 PM Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he is transferring power to his Vice President, Omar Suleiman, but will not leave the country.
Posted: 1:16 PM U.S.-based Human Rights Watch says at least 297 people have been killed since Egypt’s anti-government uprising began two weeks ago.
Posted: 1:07 PM Election officials say the final results from last month's vote in Southern Sudan show that more than 98 percent of the ballots were cast for independence.
Posted: 10:08 AM Despite Taliban threats against their lives, nearly 900 militants have quit the fight and enrolled in an Afghan government program that works to lure insurgents off the battlefield.
Posted: 4:54 PM Officials are warning U.S. citizens not to drive at night in parts of the western Mexican city of Guadalajara after suspected drug-gang members burned vehicles and blocked streets there.
Posted: 4:52 PM State-run newspaper Al-Ahram says an Egyptian reporter shot during clashes earlier this week has died of his wounds, the first reported journalist death in 11 days of turmoil surrounding Egypt's wave of anti-government protests.
