Month after quake, Japan's homeless move into houses

A woman holding a child looks over an area devastated by the March 11 tsunami in Fukushima prefecture in northeastern Japan on Sunday. One month after the disaster, some homeless Japanese...read more >>> | Denver Post

Japan set to extend nuclear evacuation zone

Japan plans to extend the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high radiation levels, local media reported on Monday, with engineers no closer...read more >>> | DNA India

France and U.N. Hit Ivory Coast Strongman's Home

BOUAKÉ, Ivory Coast -- French and United Nations helicopters fired missiles on Sunday at key positions held by forces loyal to the entrenched strongman Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan...read more >>> | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Gaddafi accepts ceasefire: AU mediator

Tripoli, April 11: South African President Jacob Zuma says embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has accepted the African Union's roadmap for a ceasefire to end the war in Libya...read more >>> | The Siasat Daily

Western leaders insist 'Gaddafi must go'

Leaders of Britain, France and the United States have vowed to continue their military campaign in Libya until Muammar Gaddafi ...read more >>> | Al Jazeera

UN Chief Warns of 'Grave' Humanitarian Crisis In Libya

United Nations UN Chief Warns of ‘Grave’ Humanitarian Crisis In Libya New York...read more >>> | Scoop

Scuffles, protests mar BP shareholder meeting

Scuffles between protesters and security guards marred BP's first annual shareholder meeting since the Gulf oil spill...read more >>> | NZ Herald

Food prices: World Bank warns millions face poverty

The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly by rising fuel costs, are pushing millions of people into extreme poverty...read more >>> | BBC News

Italian peace campaigner found dead in Gaza: Hamas

GAZA (Reuters) - Security officials found the body of an Italian peace campaigner in an abandoned house in the Gaza Strip on Friday...read more >>> | Hartford Courant

Bahrain asks court to disband Shiite groups

Bahrain has filed lawsuits to disband two Shiite opposition groups including the powerful Al Wefaq party, state media ...read more >>> | The Jordan Times

New Pirates of the Caribbean to be screened at Cannes

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is to be shown out of competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, organisers have announced...read more >>> | BBC News

Sally Field to star in Abraham Lincoln film

Actress Sally Field is to star opposite fellow two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg's film about Abraham Lincoln...read more >>> | BBC News

Aamir on 100 most influential people list

MUMBAI: It was just after India's World Cup Cricket triumph that a very important news did not get the coverage that it deserved from the media...read more >>> | Geo News

Katrina replaces Priyanka in Dostana sequel

MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra might have won millions of hearts in ‘Dostana’, but she got the shock when she...read more >>> | Geo News

New Ruby-Eyed Pit Viper Discovered

A ruby-eyed green pit viper raises its head in southern Vietnam’s Cat Tien National Park in May 2000. The park is a stronghold...read more >>> | National Geographic News

NASA's Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Arrives in Florida

NASA's Juno spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch this summer...read more >>> | Nasa News

WISE Mission Spots 'Horseshoe' Asteroid

Astronomers using data from NASA's WISE mission have found an asteroid that appears to slowly trace out a horseshoe shape in space, as seen from ...read more >>> | Nasa News

NASA Telescopes Observe Unprecedented Explosion

Usually, gamma-ray bursts last hours, marking the destruction of a massive star, but three telescopes have now zoomed in on one lasting for days...read more >>> | Nasa News

NASA Telescope Ferrets Out Planet-Hunting Targets

Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite...read more >>> | Nasa News

Civil War: 150th Anniversary

Reenactment Photos, Guides to Hallowed Grounds, and More...read more >>> | National Geographic News

Nebula Mixer :

A colorful new snapshot of the star-forming region Rho Ophiuchi captures a mix of different types of nebulas, or interstellar clouds of gas and dust...read more >>> | National Geographic News

Kerivoula Lanosa:

This is a fully grown woolly bat, Kerivoula lanosa. Weighing only 4 to 5 grams, they are specialists in dense forest environments. In Australia...read more >>> | National Geographic News

Shark's Lionfish Lunch:

Seemingly striking a blow for ecological balance, a Caribbean reef shark chomps on an invasive lionfish in the clear waters of Roatan Marine Park...read more >>> | National Geographic News

New Gravity Map Reveals Lumpy Earth

It may look like a mangled lump of Play-Doh, but this colorful object is actually the most accurate digital model yet of Earth's gravity field, scientists say...read more >>> | National Geographic News

Radiation in Japan Seas: Risk of Animal Death, Mutation?

If radioactive material from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant—disabled by the March11 Japan earthquake and tsunami...read more >>> | National Geographic News

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