Fire at Japan's quake-hit plant
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Workers extinguish a fire at Japan's Kashiwazaki nuclear plant, closed since it was hit by an earthquake in July.
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis.  -- Explosions sent fireballs hundreds of feet into the air as flames gutted an industrial chemical recycling plant Friday morning.
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Explosions sent fireballs hundreds of feet into the air as flames gutted an industrial chemical recycling plant Friday morning.
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KARIWA, Japan  - A quake-hit Japanese city called in the head of Asia's biggest utility on Wednesday and ordered him to keep a nuclear plant closed until safety could be ensured after the tremor caused minor radiation leaks.
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A fire burned early Friday at a massive fertilizer plant outside San Francisco, but it wasn't immediately known if the burning materials were toxic.
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Japanese automakers, including No. 1 Toyota Motor Corp., called production halts Wednesday at factories in Japan because of quake damage at a major parts supplier.
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Explosions and fires at a chemical plant Wednesday killed four people, injured at least 14 and sent debris flying several stories into the air, fire officials and witnesses said.
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A series of powerful earthquakes and aftershocks rattled northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 700 as buildings crumbled, a
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A fire breaks out at the transformer block of a nuclear plant in northern Germany, police say.
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A man protesting at the Japanese government&#39;s lack of progress in talks with North Korea has set his car on fire outside a gate to Japan&#39;s parliament building, witnesses and media say.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan -- A strong earthquake shook Japan's northwest coast yesterday, setting off a fire at the world's most powerful nuclear power plant and causing a reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea -- an accident not reported to the public for hours.
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Water containing some radioactive materials leaked from a nuclear power plant in Japan after a strong earthquake Monday, a spokesman for the firm running the facility said.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Japan resumed rescue efforts at  first light on Monday as aftershocks rattled the area where the  country's deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 23  people and injured more than 2,000 at the weekend.
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A car crashed into a gate of Japan's  parliament building in central Tokyo on Thursday and caught  fire, Jiji news agency said.
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A car crashed into a gate of Japan's parliament building in central Tokyo on Thursday and caught fire, Jiji news agency said.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An explosion rocked a chemical plant in an industrial section of Kansas City and sent a towering cloud of black smoke over the skyline Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
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A series of powerful earthquakes and aftershocks struck northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least 16 people and reportedly injuring more than 900 as buildings crumbled, a