Japan expanded the evacuation zone around a crippled nuclear plant on Monday because of high levels of accumulated radiation, as a strong aftershock rattled the area one month after a quake and tsunami sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Japan raised the severity of its nuclear disaster to the highest level on Tuesday, putting it on a par with the world's worst disaster nuclear accident at Chernobyl after another major aftershock ratt

Japan raised the severity of its nuclear disaster to the highest level on Tuesday, putting it on a par with the world's worst disaster nuclear accident at Chernobyl after another major aftershock rattled the quake-ravaged East.

Roger Federer reminded the tennis world of his destructive power with a 6-2, 6-1 rout of German Philipp Kohlschreiber in the Monte Carlo Masters second round on Tuesday.

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Police in Belarus carried out spot checks on roads and at stations and airports on Tuesday after a bomb blast tore through a crowded metro station in the capital Minsk on Monday evening, killing at le

Bharti Airtel Ltd , India's top mobile phone carrier, said on Monday it would launch Apple's iPhone 4 in India in the coming months.

A small South Carolina sea island family farm that has tapped the growing agriculture tourism market in order to survive has launched its ‘Rent-A-Chick’ program just in time for Easter.

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France's ban on full face veils, a first in Europe, went into force on Monday, exposing anyone who wears the Muslim niqab or burqa in public to fines of 150 euros ($216).

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Arsenal is poised to become the fifth Premier League club to have an American owner after sports tycoon Stan Kroenke agreed a deal for a takeover that values the soccer club at 731 million pounds ($1.

Soaring oil prices and inflation in the emerging economies that were a welcome source of stability during the financial crisis pose dangerous new risks to the world economy, the International Monetary