Japan Nuclear Evacuations

• Japan PM Launches English Twitter account

  After the 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, social networking sites have contributed significantly to help people find loved ones.

• Japan cites radiation in milk, spinach near plant

  Japan said radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex exceeded government safety limits, as emergency teams scrambled Saturday to restore power to the plant so it could cool dangerously overheated fuel.Firefighters also pumped tons of water directly from the ocean into one of the most troubled areas of...

• Japan PM Launches English Twitter account

  After the 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, social networking sites have contributed significantly to help people find loved ones.

• Residents evacuated from nuclear risk areas

  Radiation continued to leak on Tuesday from a crippled nuclear plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan after a third reactor was rocked by an explosion early on Tuesday and a fourth caught fire in a dramatic escalation of the 4-day-old catastrophe. Evacuees from areas around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant took refuge in the nearby c...