Voters in Egypt will elect members of parliament in September and cast ballots for president sometime after that, a member of the ruling military council said Monday.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said his government is in a state of maximum alert over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday said his government is in a "state of maximum alert" over the crisis at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, Jiji Press reported.

The U.S. Army on Monday promised to pursue "the truth" as disturbing photos of U.S. soldiers murdering innocent Afghan civilians were published by the Rolling Stone magazine.

The operator of Japan's disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant detected radioactive iodine 1,150 times the legal limit in water 30 metres (100 feet) from reactors 5 and 6, the nuclear safety agency said Monday.

The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday deployed for the first time the Iron Dome anti- rocket system amid a sharp escalation of violence along the Gaza border in recent weeks.

Warplanes roared through the skies over the Libya capital, Tripoli, early Friday, dropping bombs on the outskirts of the city where military bases are located.

The death toll of Myanmar's Thursday earthquake has risen to 75 with 111 injured so far, official sources said on Friday afternoon.

At least 25 people were killed in landslides and building collapse in Myanmar's northeastern Tachileik and Tarpin, Shan state, caused by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake Thursday night.

Radiation injuries to three workers complicated the battle to control Japan's crippled nuclear plant on Friday and heightened global anxiety over the worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

Radiation danger from Japan's tsunami-smashed nuclear plant loomed on March 23 with water in Tokyo showing hazardous levels for infants and the US becoming the first nation to block food imports.

Engineers battled to get cooling systems at a crippled Japanese nuclear plant back up Tuesday after smoke and steam escaping from stricken reactors delayed the operation.

Boeing's 747-8 Intercontinental took to the sky for the first time on Sunday, a milestone for the U.S. aviation giant's latest and biggest passenger plane.

Police in Japan say 15,000 people may have been killed in a single prefecture, Miyagi, by the huge quake and tsunami which struck nine days ago.

Nearly a decade after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the country has gone through a civil war and a major transformation from strongman state to fledgling democracy.