At least two people have been killed and as many as 200 injured in clashes between anti-government demonstrators and security forces in Bahrain.

Four people have been killed by unidentified gunmen in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan. Witnesses said attackers arrived in a taxi at a roadblock in the Cocody suburb and opened fire.

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.

Radiation from Japan's quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has reached harmful levels, the government says.

Four Thai anti-government "red-shirt" protest leaders have surrendered to police and been released on bail.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has told Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin that it is ready to discuss its nuclear enrichment plans at six-party talks.

Five Somali men convicted of attacking a US Navy ship they mistook for a merchant vessel have been sentenced to life in prison.

A fresh explosion rocked a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Tuesday and some workers were ordered to leave the site, a sign that the situation may be getting more serious at the complex that was damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

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.

Austria on Monday called for European nuclear power plants to face stress tests to reassure people worried by the crisis in Japan while Britain and France urged calm.