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The Japan National Tourist organization said Thursday that the number of foreigners visiting Japan has declined 62 percent in April, the largest decline on record.

Hawker Beechcraft and Group Lotus promotion begins this week at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition and continues through June 30

A radiation alarm went off at Tokyo Electric Power company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima power plant even before the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which served as a contrary to earlier theories the reactors were damaged by the natural catastrophes.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) released Thursday handout tsunami waters photos taken from near its number 5 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11, when a 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck Japan that triggered the tsunami.

The newly discovered isolated planets, also called free-floating Jupiters by scientists, are believed to be ejected from developing planetary systems, indicating possibilities of life on other planets as well.

Japan’s economy shrank at an annualized rate of 3.7 percent in the first three months of the year.

Justin Beiber met with fanst at the U.S. ambassador's residence where he talked with quake victims

A group of researchers have discovered a new class of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy, which do not orbit a star, and are thus free floating.

Mark Carney, a former Goldman Sachs employee and the current Governor of Bank of Canada, is a huge commodities bull.

If you've been following the preaching of Harold Camping, according to him, Judgment Day is merely days away. So set your clock for 6pm on Saturday, May 21st.

Apple's assault on the living room likely means the introduction of another Apple appliance or device and Apple TV is the best thing the Cupertino, California-based company can do.

The reconstruction of disaster that hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on March 11 this year, published by the Wall Street Journal shows the deterioration of the nuclear plants in the first 24 hours was much faster as opposed to what was comprehended earlier.

Japanese workers momentarily entered a reactor building at Japan’s crippled Fukushima power plant on Wednesday to calculate radiation intensity and look for damages, a report said.

Sony chief executive Howard Stringer apparently downplayed the severity and gravity of the massive hacker attack on the company’s PlayStation Network, saying the security breach and the subsequent service outage were a hiccup and that no networks are 100 percent secure.

North American PlayStation Network customers will get free game downloads and video rentals as a welcome back following a massive outage and data breach.

If Harold Camping is right, Judgment Day is near. Near as in four days away. Yes, you've heard correctly. The Oakland-based Family Radio Worldwide, of which Camping is the president, said they have crunched the numbers, have done the math properly, and the numbers prove that the beginning of the end of the world as we know it is May 21. A day, the Family Radio Worldwide website says, the Bible guarantees.

If Harold Camping is right, Judgment Day is near. Near as in four days away. Yes, you've heard correctly.

There will be the first Pillow Fight World Cup in New York City tonight, ever. Contenders from the U.S., Austria, Sweden, and Japan will compete for the world championship title in pillow fighting in Brooklyn, New York.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been arrested by US authorities for rape allegations. There is a very good chance he won’t be returning as the head of the IMF.

HP cut its third quarter and year-end outlook due to problems in Japan as well as softening PC sales.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Gulf Resources, Sino Clean Energy, Photronics, A123 Systems, and Vodafone Group. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Clean Energy Fuels, Cree, Dell, Intel, and L & L Energy.