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It's among the most terrifying and the most breathing natural phenomena.

A survey of four locations in Fukushima city, outside the nuclear evacuation zone, has showed soil radiation above levels that has prompted evacuation of pregnant women and children from the city.

The South Korean city of Pyeongchang was selected on Wednesday to be the host site for the 2018 Winter Olympics, beating out both Germany and France.

Pyeongchang, Korea, was announced as the host city for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games today - a crushing victory over rivals Munich of Germany and Annecy of France in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote in Durban. After two failed attempts for 2010 and 2014, Pyeongchang will mark the first Winter Games in Asia outside of Japan

Pyeongchang, Korea, was announced as the host city for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games today - a crushing victory over rivals Munich of Germany and Annecy of France in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote in Durban. After two failed attempts for 2010 and 2014, Pyeongchang will mark the first Winter Games in Asia outside of Japan

South Korea’s Pyeongchang was awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics on Wednesday after failing in two previous attempts.

A swarm of jellyfish blocks the water supply which is used as a coolant at the Orot Rabin nuclear power plant in Hadera, Israel.

China raised interest rates for the third time this year in response to rising inflation in the country. That's just one of the problems the world's second-largest economy faces.

Takeru Kobayashi, who downed 69 hot dogs on Monday on the rooftop of a Manhattan bar, once drank 25 bottles(200ml) of coffee milk in 135 minutes on a TV show FOOD FIGHT CLUB.

Japanese scientists have found huge deposits of rare earth minerals on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, which are used to make high-tech electronics products.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon also known as Transformers 3, which began its assault last Tuesday night, smashed its way through box office records by Monday with global gross receipts nearing $400 million, but not yet opened in Japan or China.

A group of hackers, known as AntiSec, claimed to have a list of 27 usernames and passwords taken from an SQL database from an online surveys hosted on an Apple Inc. Business Intelligence site on Sunday.

Sony is expected to launch its PlayStation 4 (PS4) gaming console in 2012 that will feature body movement-based control like Kinect, a motion sensing input device developed by Microsoft for the Xbox 360.

Globalization, basically free markets and the transfer of jobs to lower-cost production centers, has many benefits. But is the new economic era exacting a cost on the U.S. economy in the form of a longer-than-normal period of high initial jobless claims?

Researchers from Japan have discovered vast quantities of rare earth deposits on the floor of the Pacific Ocean that might challenge the dominance of China as world's leading provider.

Today, the Liberty Bell that hangs at the Liberty Bell Center on Market Street in Philadelphia will be symbolically tapped as per the tradition on every Independence Day.

Sony said its PlayStation Network will spring back to life in Japan this week after a nearly three-month gap, confirming finally that the gaming giant is burying the ghost of PSN hack that tormented it for long.

NASA space shuttle Atlantis is set to liftoff on the final flight of the shuttle program, STS-135, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. The launch is currently targeted for July 8 at 11:26 am EDT.

Recently, Apple amended the patent infringement lawsuit which was filed against Samsung in April. Also Samsung was gaining ground as they filed lawsuits against Apple in a tit-for-tat case.

Google's move to dismiss the case against it with regards to last years controversial WiFi sniffing was rejected, putting it in a position to face charges for wire-tapping.

The FIFA Women's World Cup is underway and many of the teams have already played two of the five games in the Group Stage.