Sunday, April 3, 2011

Japan battles to stop radiation leak into sea (AFP)

Japan battles to stop radiation leak into sea (AFP)

Japan battles to stop radiation leak into sea (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 11:01 AM PDT

Debris and cars sit in a former rice field flooded by the tsunami and slowly drained using mechanical pumps in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture. Workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant Sunday struggled to stop a radioactive water leak into the Pacific, as the government warned the facility may spread contamination for months.(AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)AFP - Workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant Sunday struggled to stop a radioactive water leak into the Pacific, as the government warned the facility may spread contamination for months.

Taliban twin bombers kill 42 at Pakistani shrine (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 10:48 AM PDT

Policemen remove explosives from a suicide bomber as he lies severely injured at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Dera Ghazi Khan April 3, 2011. Two Taliban suicide bombers caused carnage on Sunday at a Sufi shrine in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 41 people and wounding scores in the latest bloody attack on minority religious groups. REUTERS/Sheikh Asif Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST RELIGION)AP - A pair of Taliban suicide bombers struck one of Pakistan's most important Sufi Muslim shrines on Sunday, killing 42 people and wounding 100 who were celebrating the anniversary of its founder's death with music, meditation and other practices abhorred by Islamist militant groups.

$10 million triptych sets Chinese art record (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 10:23 AM PDT

A photographer takes a photo as a Sotheby's employee stands beside a painting by Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang entitled 'Forever Lasting Love', in Hong Kong, in February 2011. A new auction record for contemporary Chinese art was set in Hong Kong Sunday, when the triptych sold for HK$79 million (more than $10 million) at a Sotheby's auction.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AFP - A new auction record for contemporary Chinese art was set in Hong Kong Sunday, when a triptych by Zhang Xiaogang sold for HK$79 million (more than $10 million) at a Sotheby's auction.

Kazakh leader set for easy re-election (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 10:22 AM PDT

Reuters - Kazakhstan's veteran President Nursultan Nazarbayev is poised to win another five years in charge of his oil-rich Central Asian state after a snap election on Sunday devoid of any challenge to his two decades in power.

Trump lands China Open for maiden snooker title (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 10:14 AM PDT

A referee holds snooker balls during a match. Emerging talent Judd Trump won his first ever snooker ranking event on Sunday after edging out fellow Englishman Mark Selby 10-8 in a compelling China Open final in Beijing.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Emerging talent Judd Trump won his first ever snooker ranking event on Sunday after edging out fellow Englishman Mark Selby 10-8 in a compelling China Open final in Beijing.

Kazakh strongman set for crushing poll win (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:52 AM PDT

Kazakh president and presidential candidate Nursultan Nazarbayev prepares to cast his vote at the polling station during presidential elections in Astana. Nazarbayev is expected to stretch his rule into a third decade by scoring a crushing poll win whose scripted nature has raised alarm over democracy in the energy-rich state.(AFP/Viktor Drachev)AFP - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was set Sunday to stretch his rule into a third decade by scoring a crushing poll win whose scripted nature has raised alarm over democracy in the energy-rich state.

Two killed, dozens hurt in third day of Afghan protests (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:44 AM PDT

Personnel carry the casket of one of seven U.N. employees killed in an attack on Friday in Mazar-i-Sharif, at Kabul airport, in this handout photograph released by the U.N. and taken April 2, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Kanalstein/United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan/UNAMA/Handout (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSReuters - Two policemen were killed and more than 30 people wounded in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday during the third day of protests across Afghanistan against the burning of a Koran by a militant fundamentalist Christian U.S. pastor, officials said.

Japan says it may take months to end radiation leaks (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:35 AM PDT

Reuters - Japan's government warned on Sunday it may take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago, as more bodies were recovered in devastated areas of northeast Japan.

Suicide blasts at Sufi shrine in Pakistan kill 41 (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:20 AM PDT

Policemen remove explosives from a suicide bomber as he lies severely injured at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Dera Ghazi Khan April 3, 2011. Two Taliban suicide bombers caused carnage on Sunday at a Sufi shrine in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 41 people and wounding scores in the latest bloody attack on minority religious groups. REUTERS/Sheikh Asif Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST RELIGION)Reuters - Two Taliban suicide bombers caused carnage on Sunday at a Sufi shrine in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 41 people and wounding scores in the latest bloody attack on minority religious groups.

'Sacred' turtle captured in Vietnam lake (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:03 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, March 3, 2011, a rare giant soft-shelled turtle shows an open wound on its neck at Hoan Kiem lake in Hanoi, Vietnam. Rescuers working in a lake in central Hanoi have captured an ailing giant turtle considered sacred by many Vietnamese to give it medical treatment, Sunday, April 3, 2011. (AP Photo)AP - An ailing giant turtle considered sacred by many Vietnamese was captured in a lake in central Hanoi on Sunday by rescuers who hope to give it medical attention.

Disasters put stress on children in Japan (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 08:03 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 1, 2011 file photo, young evacuees play cards at an evacuation center for the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan. Behind the smiling faces of thousands of children in shelters across this wave-battered wasteland, experts said there is often serious anxiety as everything these youngsters once held as normal is suddenly anything but. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - Zoom in for a snapshot of apparent normalcy: children sitting in a circle, clasping playing cards tightly in their hands. They laugh, chat and occasionally hop up to break into a goofy dance.

Quran protests spread to turbulent Afghan east (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 07:12 AM PDT

Afghan protestors beat a burning effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a demonstration in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Sunday, April 3, 2011. Afghan protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third day with a demonstration in the major eastern city Sunday, while the Taliban called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Demonstrators battled police in southern Afghanistan's main city on Sunday and took to the streets in the turbulent east for the first time as Western pleas failed to halt a third day of rage over a Florida pastor's burning of the Quran.

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Posted: 03 Apr 2011 07:11 AM PDT

AP - Emergency official: Death toll from shrine bombings in Pakistan has risen to 30.

3,000 Marines in Japan to skip Philippine drills (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 06:44 AM PDT

AP - About 3,000 U.S. Marines will not join annual war exercises in the Philippines starting this week because they are helping with relief work in quake- and tsunami-devastated Japan, officials said Sunday.

China blocks well-known artist from boarding plane (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 06:01 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2010 file photo, artist Ai Weiwei arrives at the Wenyuhe court to support fellow artist Wu Yuren during his trial in Beijing. China blocked Ai Weiwei, one of its most famous contemporary artists from taking a flight to Hong Kong on Sunday, April 3, 2011 and police later raided his Beijing studio, the man's assistant said. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)AP - China blocked one of its most famous contemporary artists from taking a flight to Hong Kong on Sunday and police later raided his Beijing studio, the man's assistant said.

Filipino gunmen send 2 of 15 hostages to get food (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 05:02 AM PDT

AP - Armed tribesmen who kidnapped 15 people, mostly teachers, in the southern Philippines sent two of the captives Sunday to get food and water and threatened to harm the remaining hostages if they did not return, police said.

Bangladesh: 1 dead in clash over women's rights (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 04:49 AM PDT

AP - Bangladeshi security officials on Sunday opened fire and used tear gas to disperse stone-throwing members of a hardline Islamic group protesting a government policy for women's equal right to inheritance, leaving one protester dead and 25 others injured.

Activists call for renewable energy at UN meeting (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 03:05 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2001, file photo, a gas supply line is seen in St. Albans, Vt. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, who says climate change must be fought and that Vermont should get more of its energy from homegrown, renewable sources, is backing a big increase in imports of natural gas from Canada.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Citing the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, environmental activists at a U.N. meeting Sunday urged bolder steps to tap renewable energy so the world doesn't have to choose between the dangers of nuclear power and the ravages of climate change.

Developments in Japan's disasters, nuclear crisis (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 01:36 AM PDT

AP - • ENGINEERS WORK TO STOP RADIOACTIVE LEAK. Engineers try to stem a leak of highly radioactive water spilling into the Pacific with a new method after concrete failed to seal a crack discovered Saturday. They injected polymer that can absorb enormous amounts of water into a pipe that connects to the maintenance pit from where the water is leaking. It's not yet known if that has worked.

Kazakhstan vote expected to re-elect president (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 12:56 AM PDT

A woman votes with her son during the Kazakh presidential election at a polling station at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 3, 2011. Polls have opened in Kazakhstan for an election that is expected to overwhelmingly reconfirm the leadership of long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)AP - Voters in Kazakhstan cast their ballots Sunday in a election that is expected to overwhelmingly renew long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev's grip on power.
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