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Rescue workers in northeastern Japan used chain saws and pickaxes Monday to remove bodies from mountains of rubble left by a massive earthquake and tsunami that have killed thousands and triggered a growing crisis at one of the country's nuclear power plants.Millions of survivors were spending a fou

A second explosion occurred Monday at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, and officials say three reactors at the plant are now having cooling problems in the wake of Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami.The latest blast blew the roof off a structure built around the reactor but di

The devastatingly destructive earthquake in Japan is being called the largest in the country's "recorded history."The phrase "recorded history" carries meaning because we humans are a chronicling race.