External power has been restored at all sites affected by the 7th April earthquake. The 3 litres of water that were spilled at Onagawa NPP have been cleaned up.

• April 11, 2011

South African President Jacob Zuma says the Libyan government has accepted an African Union peace proposal to end the eight-week-old conflict.

• April 11, 2011

A major aftershock rocked northeast Japan on Thursday and a tsunami warning was issued for the coast devastated by last month's massive quake and tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant.

• April 8, 2011

Russia has vowed to build a base on the Moon within two decades which it plans to use as a staging post for a manned mission to Mars.

• April 8, 2011

Japan has asked nuclear superpower Russia to send a special radiation treatment ship used to decommission nuclear submarines to help in its fight to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl, Japanese media said

• April 6, 2011

It's August 2020. A powerful and rising China wants to bring the city-state of Singapore into its fold as it has with Hong Kong, Macau and Taipei.

• April 1, 2011

Russia is setting up a special motorised infantry brigade of troops ready to fight in the Arctic as tensions over the region's allegedly vast oil and gas wealth reserves grow.

• April 1, 2011

While uprisings across Middle East and North African countries are turning into revolutions, many ponder over the question “who is next”?  What country or even region would be covered with the rebellion wave, if any.

• April 1, 2011