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Lady Gaga's trip to Japan is part of the music diva's efforts to help the victims of the March 11 Japan earthquake and tsunami. The singer will take part in the 2011MTV Video Music Awards Japan to raise funds for the disaster-stricken people.

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Pop superstar Lady Gaga visited Japan for a charity concert to raise funds for victims of the March 11 earthquake and Tsunami in the country.

American singer and teen icon Lady Gaga on Thursday came in support of tsunami-hit Japan victims and exhorted tourists to visit the country.

Early Thursday, Japan was jolted by a 6.7-magnitude earthquake in the same area where a 9.0-magnitude earthquake in March caused a destructive tsunami that claimed thousands of lives.

The Japanese Meteorological Agency canceled the tsunami warning that was issued after 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit the east coast of Japan near Honshu on Thursday morning.

The head of the world's most powerful central bank essentially stuck to the bank's latest U.S. economic forecast in his news conference with reporters Wednesday: the U.S. economy slowed in Q2, but growth is likely to pick-up in the second half of 2011.

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The swollen Missouri River had posed a serious threat to a riverside nuclear power plant in the state of Nebraska in the United States after levees built to hold back the rising floodwaters failed.

Three months have passed since the deadliest tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011. It was announced as the strongest ever in recorded history of geological disasters. Check out photos of Japan’s amazing recovery that took place after the catastrophic event.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its growth forecasts for the US for the next two years from 2.7 percent to 2.5 percent in 2011 and from 2.9 percent to 2.7 percent in 2012, besides highlighting renewed weakness in the housing market as a risk.

Japanese car major Toyota Motors today said that it expects North American vehicle production levels to return to 100 percent in September. Production is recovering earlier than originally anticipated following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 struck south-central Alaska a little after 11 a.m. local time, according to the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska.

Six more employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. working at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were exposed to more radiation than allowed, the Japanese Newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported today.

Two minke whales were discovered with traces of radiation off the Japanese coast.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Netapp, Finisar, Owens-Illinois, E-Commerce China, Carnival, J.C. Penney, Sprint Nextel, United States Steel, Baker Hughes and Southwest Airlines.

A Japanese non-profit group that went to explore under the sea in hopes of finding missing Tsunami victims found a ghost town instead.

A series of tremors hit the city of Christchurch Monday, just months after a devastating quake killed 180.

At least 10 people were seriously injured when the New Zealand city of Christchurch was shocked by a series of powerful earthquakes on Monday.

New Zealand's Christchurch was rocked by a series of earthquakes on Monday even as vivid memories of a devastating earthquake in February that killed about 180 people had hardly faded.

Family Radio president Harold Camping, who famously predicted that about 200 million people will Rapture on May 21 and the world will be destroyed five months later, on Thursday night suffered a stroke which has affected his ability to speak.