About 77.2 percent of Egyptian voters approved the constitutional amendments in a referendum, Egypt's High Judicial Commission announced Sunday.

The No. 5 and No. 6 reactors at the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant went into stable condition on Sunday, local media reported.

Chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, arrived in Japan on Friday to check the worsening nuclear crisis in Fukushima, as the death toll of the March 11 powerful earthquake and ensuing tsunami rose in the country amid a grave nuclear leak threat.

Japanese military helicopters dumped tons of water towards the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant Thursday morning in an effort to avert a possible nuclear meltdown.

As Japan is struggling to contain a spiraling nuclear crisis, another fire broke out again at a quake-crippled nuclear plant on Wednesday, raising fears of more radiation contamination.

The number of Alzheimer patients is growing rapidly, so is that of unpaid caregivers, says a report released Tuesday by the Alzheimer's Association.

A fire broke out again early Wednesday at the troubled No. 4 reactor of the quake-hit Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.

A 12-member delegation from the Operation Smile programme of Australia will visit Vietnam in late this month to explore the country’s activities in the field.

Japanese police said Tuesday that the official death toll from last week's massive earthquake and tsunami has risen to 2,414, and a big share of the deaths were in Miyagi prefecture, where 1,254 people are confirmed dead.

China's parliament on Monday rubber-stamped a five-year government plan calling for more sustainable and balanced annual economic growth of around seven per cent annually until 2015.

An Israeli ministerial committee Saturday night approved the construction of several hundred housing units in West Bank settlements, a decision that comes in the wake of a deadly attack in the settlement of Itamar on Friday, in which five family members were stabbed to death.

 The morning after Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake to hit the island nation in recorded history and the tsunami it unleashed - and even as the earth continued to twitch with aftershocks - the disaster's massive impact was only beginning to be revealed.

Irish President Mary McAleese Wednesday appointed opposition leader Enda Kenny as the country's new prime minister.

Lack of oxygen in the water might be the cause for the death of millions of small fish, primarily sardines, at Redondo Beach's King Harbor near Los Angeles, authorities said on Wednesday.