The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company had underestimated the risks a tsunami can cause to the nuclear installations in the country. The latest IAEA report validates WikiLeaks revelations that IAEA had warned Japanese authorities about the risk of a strong earthquake.
A measure to collect taxes from online retailers passed the State Assembly Tuesday, with a 46-16 vote.
Japan has underestimated the tsunami hazards for its nuclear power and needs to keep an eye on public and worker’s health, a U.N nuclear safety team in Japan said in a summary of its report on the nuclear crisis, Reuters reported.
United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton will attend an international meeting next week to talk about the situation in Libya, as NATO seeks to accelerate the campaign to end his rule.
Rep. Anthony Weinter on Tueday said that an incident in which a lewd photo was sent from his Twitter account to a 21-year old college student was a prank caused by a hacker.
Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan may face votes for a no-confidence motion against him from dozens of Japanese ruling party rebels, media said on Wednesday.
The Scheveningen detention center in the Hague, where Mladic will be detained, seems relatively luxurious. The location of the detention center is about 2 km (one mile) from the beach where top properties have views of rolling sand dunes and the whiff of sea spray.
“All you have to do is say no to the question,” said a persistent reporter to Representative Anthony Weiner on Tuesday.
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic will be facing genocide charges at the U.N. war crimes tribunal within days, Reuters reported.
Representative Anthony Weiner was hounded by persistent reporters on Tuesday as he refused to answer whether or not he sent a lewd photo from his Twitter account to a 21-year-old college student named Gennette Nicole Cordova.
BigGovernment.com questioning published accounts by Rep. Anthony Weiner about his activity on Twitter when a lewd photo from his account was sent publicly to one of the people following his postings.
Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney took a break from tackling policy issues to answer questions about his personal tastes in a new interview which aired on Tuesday.
Mitt Romney, the Republican Presidential candidate hopeful, says he isn't worried that people in the United States will be considering his religion as they go to the polls in November of 2012.
Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, had issued a general amnesty in a desperate effort to restore order to a country that has convulsed with rioting and violence over the past two and a half months.
Days after a cyberattack aimed for Lockheed's computers, a former terrorist says group sought Lockheed CEO's death
While the military has begun paying attention and devoting more resources to the problem, military suicide it is still stigmatized.
The number of people killed or left homeless in last year’s earthquake in Haiti was much lower than claimed by the country’s leaders, according to a draft report commissioned by the US government.
The man suspected of shooting Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 has been arrested in Chechnya and is due to be brought to Moscow, the BBC reported.
British Conservative politicians are more attractive than their Labour counterparts, according to the results of a poll taken by a website that ranked Members of Parliament by their “sexiness.”
Ratko Mladic has arrived in The Netherlands, where the former fugitive and suspected war criminal will face charges if committing genocide, among other crimes, during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.
Southern political operatives are warily eyeing President Obama's fundraising clout and shifting demographics as a national election approaches
Here are the top 10 sexiest/most attractive female British Members of Parliament, according to Sexymp.co.uk:
Carbon output skyrocketed to its highest recorded level thanks to a five percent increase from 2009 to 2010, the International Energy Agency said.
While President Barack Obama honored fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, a showdown took place between two unlikely groups: the Ku Klux Klan and the Westboro Baptist Church protestors.
Another powerful financier was arrested for molesting a Manhattan maid, underscoring the accusations that have enveloped former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Smoking kills 6 million people per year, including 600,000 from second-hand smoking, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). By 2030, it's expected to kill 8 million people.
It doesn't matter that it's a race to the top, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) doesn't consider Sarah Palin a competitor.
A Pakistani journalist who had written about alleged links between the nation’s navy and the al-Qaeda terrorist network was found dead in an abandoned car near the capital city of Islamabad.
On Day 3 of her One Nation bus tour, Sarah Palin and Company, made a visit to the Gettysburg battlefield and cemetery Tuesday morning.
Solutions to fix the mess the U.S. housing finance system are months if not years away, but U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will likely reiterate his view to Congress on Wednesday that the United States must make that system more efficient, resilient and less complex.
