IBT Staff Reporter

Japanese shares look set to tumble this week while government bonds and the yen are expected to gain, although market players are still trying to gauge the impact of the country's worst earthquake in modern history.

It took a massive earthquake back in her homeland to persuade Yuki Kosuge to look beyond traditional news sources and log in to Twitter for the first time.

Seeking to avert a meltdown, Japanese officials injected seawater into overheating nuclear reactors on Sunday, relieving pressure at a nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture, according to a report.

England skipper Rio Ferdinand will miss the European Championship qualifier with Wales on 26 March with a calf injury, leading to speculation that John Terry could be offered the role which he was stripped off over a year back.

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is considering buying a controlling stake in Kuwaiti telecom firm Zain at a price of 1.7 dinars ($6.12) per share, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

China Everbright Bank <601818.SS> has mandated 10 banks for its planned about $6 billion Hong Kong listing, IFR reported late on Saturday.

The unexpected nature of this week's earthquake in Japan, plus the damage from the subsequent tsunami and fires, makes estimating insured losses from the disaster especially difficult, senior executives at two top catastrophe risk modeling firms said on Saturday.

The unexpected nature of this week's earthquake in Japan, plus the damage from the subsequent tsunami and fires, makes estimating insured losses from the disaster especially difficult, senior executives at two top catastrophe risk modeling firms said on Saturday.

Deutsche Boerse will avoid forced layoffs in its planned merger with NYSE Euronext , and employees will choose the merged exchange operator's name, Deutsche Boerse chief executive Reto Francioni has said.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy promised Brazil his government would support Dassault's proposed technology transfer of its new fighter jet as the company seeks an edge in its bid to win a multibillion-dollar Brazilian military contract.

Prefectural officials have reported that a small seaside town in northeastern Japan close to the epicenter of Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake has about 9,500 people which have gone unaccounted for, according to Kyodo news.

Arsenal were dumped out of the FA Cup as Manchester United dealt the Gunners a 2-0 defeat at Old Trafford in the FA Cup quarter-final.

The government has given BHP Billiton the second new permit to drill in the Gulf of Mexico since the Macondo oil spill, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said on Saturday.

The unprecedented nature of Friday's earthquake in Japan, plus the damage from the subsequent tsunami and fires, makes estimating insured losses especially challenging, senior executives at two top catastrophe modeling firms said on Saturday.

NASA's Earth Observatory team has published enhanced satellite images comparing before and after shots of the northeastern Japanese city of Sendai after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck the coast, pointing out areas hit by flooding.

An inter-city tour bus traveling from a casino in Connecticut to New York City overturned on Saturday killing 13 people, according to reports.

The military has grounded its entire fleet of 10 F-35 fighter jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp while it investigates a dual generator failure and an oil leak that occurred during a flight test last week, the company said.

BP's partners in Russian joint venture TNK-BP have rejected a peace proposal by the British oil major to involve them in talks on joining a disputed BP alliance with Russia's Rosneft.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has confirmed that there has been a release of a small amount of radioactive material at one of its two Fukushima-based nuclear plants where the cooling mechanism had failed after Friday's devastating earthquake.

An explosion at a nuclear power plant in Japan's eastern coast did not take place at the critically important reactor, but officials have nonetheless expanded an evacuation area for residents from about 6 miles to 12 miles.

Arsenal travel to Old Trafford on Saturday for the FA Cup quarter-final against arguably their greatest rival Manchester United.

A government probe into the fall of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc has hit so many snags that enforcement officials fear they may never be able to bring civil or criminal charges against company executives, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Arsenal travel to Old Trafford on Saturday for the FA Cup quarter-final against arguably their greatest rival Manchester United in what could be a classic.

Thousands of people in tech-savvy Japan swamped the Internet in the hours after a devastating earthquake and tsunami to tell loved ones they were safe, but social networking sites were also flooded with worries about an explosion at a nuclear plant.

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Volcanic eruptions are usually associated with Hawaii, but they are as great a danger -- perhaps more so -- in the continental U.S.

Wal-Mart , the world's largest retailer, has apologized for selling duck meat past its expiry date in a store in southwest China's Chongqing region, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday.

'Pokemon' creator Satoshi Tajiri rumored to have died in Japan earthquake on the internet, especially on sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Technology giant Apple basked in the success of the launch of iPad 2 as tech-junkies gathered in serpentine queues outside outlets across America. Start the slideshow to see the photos as Apple iPad 2 arrives with a bang: