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The total bill for materials in a Nintendo 3DS is about $100, a 33 percent increase over the previous incarnations of the device.

Following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan earlier this month, a Canadian broadcaster has pulled episodes of The Simpsons from its rotation.

Here is the latest update from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant in northeastern Japan.

Mashable is reporting that Lady Gaga donated $1.5 million to Zynga's fundraising campaign for Japan.

Three percent of Japan's total demand for LPG has been wiped out by the earthquake that hit the county earlier this month, though intensive buying by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) could compensate for the reduction in demand to some extent.

Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it detected several kinds of radioactive material in the water on the floor of reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The first teams of foreign doctors have arrived in Japan to treat victims of the devastating earthquake of two weeks ago after the government lifted its restriction on holders of foreign medical licenses treating Japanese patients.

Increasing numbers of pregnant women from Tokyo are moving westward into the Kansai area to have their babies due to rising radiation fears.

Ruling out laymen speculation on a connection between the earthquakes that have stuck nations across the world including the powerful Christchurch and Japan ones, a new study has found that large quakes do not cause temblors in far away lands.

While a drop in public support for nuclear power would be expected after an incident like the Fukushima reactor crisis, the nuclear disaster in Japan has triggered a much stronger response among Americans.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) should be much more aggressive, said Paul Sheard, global chief economist of Nomura Securities.

Residents of Fukushima Prefecture who live between 20 and 30 kilometers away from the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are feeling increasingly isolated, according to Kyodo News.

Lights being turned off in homes, businesses and public buildings in Fiji and New Zealand at 8:30 PM local time marked the commencement of Earth Hour 2011, with widespread endorsement of the message that the world and its environment need commitments for action going “beyond the hour”.

As world closely watches the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan mourns deaths caused by earthquake and tsunami in silence. Slideshow contains photos of a mass grave:

Despite supply woes from earthquake-torn Jana, Apple iPad 2 global sales attract buyers. Start slideshow to see photos of tech-junkies grabbing the tablet across 25 countries:

Even as the workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant scrambled to remove radioactive water, earthquake-torn Japan now fights apparent nuclear leak into the ocean causing a sharp spike in levels of radioactive iodine.

Two weeks has passed since a massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami struck Japan to cause one of the most severe natural disasters in Japanese history.

The official death toll from Japan’s devastating earthquake-tsunami has now surpassed 10,000, while almost a quarter-million people are sheltered in about 1,900 evacuation centers as of Friday evening, according to the National Police Agency (NPA).

The Japanese government said it will unveil a plan by April on how it will cope with an expected energy shortage this summer as a result of the destruction of the nuclear plants in Fukushima following the earthquake-tsunami catastrophe.

A few days ago Universal announced that a number of artists donated their songs for use on a new compilation to be released in aid of the Japan Red Cross following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that his earlier this

There are several differences between the facility at Indian Point and the Fukushima reactor, and those differences show that while Indian Point, like other nuclear power plants, has risks, they are different risks than those at Fukushima.