Singer and songwriter Neil Diamond was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, crooning his signature mellow rock songs in a stark contrast to fellow inductee heavy metal band Alice Cooper.

Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged, Kyodo news reported, a development that suggested the crisis was spiralling out of control.

A woman sitting on a road in the destroyed city of Natori, in northern Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture weeps with grief.

Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s troops seized the strategic Libyan oil town of Brega Sunday, forcing the rebels to retreat under heavy bombardment while world powers considered imposing a no-fly zone.

Radiation leaked from an earthquake-crippled nuclear plant in Japan on Saturday after a blast blew off the roof, and authorities prepared to distribute iodine to local people to protect them from exposure.

London: The US air force delivered emergency coolant to an earthquake-hit nuclear power station in Japan on Friday but initial world reaction to the massive tremor and tsunami was otherwise marked by

Tokyo: A devastating tsunami triggered by the biggest earthquake on record in Japan looked set to kill at least 1,000 people along the northeastern coast on Friday after a wall of water swept away eve

Nagpur: Familiar foes India and South Africa will clash in a World Cup Group B match on Saturday with the aim of proving their World Cup credentials as favourites.

While India have remained unbeaten

A devastating tsunami triggered by the biggest earthquake on record in Japan looked set to kill at least 1,000 people along the northeastern coast on Friday after a wall of water swept away everything in its path.

Japan scrambled on Saturday to avert a disastrous meltdown at a nuclear plant damaged when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Northeast coast, killing at least 1,300 people.