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Japan official death toll climbs to 18,000

Yumi Sugiura, who evacuated from Iitate town in Fukushima, holds out her hand to be screened for traces of nuclear radiation at a welfare center in Yamagata, northern Japan March 20, 2011, nine days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami
Even as Japan reported significant progress in preventing a melt-down in its Fukushima nuclear plant, the National Police Agency said on Monday more than 18,000 people have been confirmed dead in the twin-catastrophe that hit the country on March 11.
Earthquake and tsunami survivors walk through a flooded street searching for their belongings in the destroyed residential area of Kesennuma

Search and rescue after Japan quake (Photos)

Japanese have been focused on the rescue operations after the 9.0-magnitude quake and ensuing 10-meter high tsunami that struck Japan. Official tolls of dead and missing are rising steadily -- to 8,450 and 12,931 respectively on Monday.
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A baby Albatross sits in front of a power plant that survived the "Battle of Midway" on Midway Island

Tsunami killed thousands of seabirds in Hawaii wildlife sanctuary

While the tsunami that crashed into Hawaii did not apparently cause any casualties among humans, it did kill tens of thousands of seabirds, including thousands of albatrosses and other endangered species, at a wildlife sanctuary in the Midway atoll, 1300 miles northwest of Hawaii, according to U.S. wildlife officials.
Art into Fashion: a Roberto Capucci exclusive.

Art into Fashion: a Roberto Capucci exclusive

Starting March 16, 2011, contemporary Italian fashion designer and artist, Roberto Capucci (born 1930) is presenting a unique exhibition featuring over 80 of his original works, drawings and sketches.
A technician in protective gear looks out of a window at a makeshift facility to screen, cleanse and isolate people with high radiation levels in Nihonmatsu, northern Japan

Japan Nuclear Crisis [PHOTOS]

Six and a half decades after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the second world war, a powerful earthquake plunged Japan into another nuclear crisis. Start the slideshow to see photos:

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