Store shelves empty even outside disaster zone as panic buying grips Japan

Store shelves empty even outside disaster zone as panic buying grips Japan

Store shelves empty even outside disaster zone as panic buying grips Japan

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 11:09 PM PDT

TOKYO - Canned goods, batteries, bread and bottled water have vanished from store shelves and long lines of cars circle gas stations, as Japan grapples with a new risk set off by last week's earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis: panic-buying.


Libya's Gadhafi, increasingly isolated internationally, finds supporters in Latin America

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:59 PM PDT

CARACAS, Venezuela - As Moammar Gadhafi finds himself increasingly isolated internationally, he still has at least a few friends far away.


Rebel council seeks to transform Libya

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT

BENGHAZI, LIBYA - They are a rebel leadership who meet in secret places in their own stronghold. Some change residences every few days. Others worry that their cellphones are tapped or walk with bodyguards. Their chairman is seldom seen in public: Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi has placed a $400,000...


Libyan 'rebel capital' threatened

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 11:13 PM PDT

Gaddafi forces inch towards opposition stronghold of Benghazi while wrangle over UN decision on no-fly zone crawls.


"Midsomer Murders" producer suspended (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:18 PM PDT

British actors Neil Dudgeon and Fiona Dolman, seen here posing during the TV series AFP - The producer of a popular police detective series shown in 204 countries was suspended after claiming the show's success was down to its all-white cast.

Chip prices rise as Japan disaster hits tech supplies (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:45 PM PDT

Reuters - Prices for key technology components extended gains on Tuesday, as damage at Japanese plants and infrastructure caused by Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami threatens to disrupt the global manufacturing chain longer than many had expected.


Nepal swaps royal family for Mount Everest on its currency now monarchy is abolished

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:45 PM PDT

KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepal's central bank has ordered banks and businesses to stop using currency notes with kings' heads on them.


Bangladesh court delays hearing on Nobel laureate Yunus' bid to keep job at microfinance bank

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:29 PM PDT

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh's highest court has delayed arguments on whether Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus can retain his job at the microfinance bank he founded.


Japan's victims struggle to understand what's happened

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT

IN SOMA, JAPAN The second his mother takes her eyes off him, the 3-year-old boy darts across the room, a gymnasium near city hall that serves as a temporary home to about 500 newly homeless Japanese. He weaves around the older evacuees and leaps over small stacks of blankets. Yurie Tanaka quickly...


Radiation fears spark panic buying and evacuations in Tokyo (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:50 PM PDT

Reuters - Panic swept Tokyo on Tuesday after a rise in radioactive levels around an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant north of the city, causing some residents to leave the capital and others to stock up on food and supplies.


TOPIX heads for biggest loss since 1987 (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:14 PM PDT

Employees of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) work at the bourse in Tokyo March 14, 2011. REUTERS/Issei KatoReuters - Japanese stocks plunged 12 percent on Tuesday on reports of rising radiation levels near Tokyo and lurched toward their biggest loss since the 1987 crash, in a panic selloff likely to compound the economic impact on the quake-stricken country.

Teen cancels Facebook party with 200,000 'guests' (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:54 PM PDT

An Australian schoolgirl had to cancel her 16th birthday party after her Facebook invitation went viral and close to 200,000 people said they would turn up at her house, reports said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - An Australian schoolgirl had to cancel her 16th birthday party after her Facebook invitation went viral and close to 200,000 people said they would turn up at her house, reports said Tuesday.

CNN's Anderson Cooper Ends Live Japan Report Early: Explains Why Via Twitter

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:28 PM PDT

CNN's Anderson Cooper, who is well-known for his on the ground crisis reports from around the world,


Japanese Fears of Radiation Leak Mounting

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:23 PM PDT

This post was written by Yas Idei, a freelance?? journalist living in Tokyo and longtime friend of m


In Japan Reports Of Meltdown, Fukushima Evacuation

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 08:52 PM PDT

Here is a description of the scene around Japan?s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. It w


Radiation fears spark panic buying, evacuations in Tokyo

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:52 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Panic swept Tokyo on Tuesday after a rise in radioactive levels around an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant north of the city, causing some residents to leave the capital and others to stock up on food and supplies.

North Korea says it could discuss uranium enrichment program if 6-nation nuclear talks resume

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 11:10 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea told a Russian envoy that it is willing to discuss its newly disclosed uranium enrichment program if long-stalled nuclear disarmament talks resume, state media reported Tuesday.


Official says slightly elevated radiation levels detected in Tokyo, no health threat so far

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:31 PM PDT

TOKYO - Official says slightly elevated radiation levels detected in Tokyo, no health threat so far.


North Korea says willing to discuss uranium enrichment (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:18 PM PDT

Reuters - North Korea said on Tuesday it was willing to discuss its uranium enrichment program at nuclear disarmament talks, clearing one of the hurdles for the resumption of long-stalled international dialogue.


Wikileaks' Assange confronts Australian PM (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:24 PM PDT

Australia has denied passing on information about Wikileaks staff to foreign powers after its outspoken founder Julian Assange (pictured) confronted the country's prime minister, Julia Gillard, over the claim.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Australia on Tuesday denied passing on information about Wikileaks staff to foreign powers after its outspoken founder Julian Assange confronted the country's prime minister over the claim.
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