Apocalypse Now: Haunting Images From Japanese Wasteland Show Epic Scale Of Disaster As 450 Britons Are Feared Missing -- The Daily Mail
* 70-year-old woman found alive in house that had been washed away by the tsunami
* Japan injects £60.8bn into money markets after Nikkei plunges by more than 10 per cent
* Bread, tinned goods and batteries growing scarce as Japanese panic buy amid nuclear crisis
* Fears for hundreds of Britons believed missing. FO expresses 'serious concern' for at least 50
With millions of people without electricity, thousands missing and warnings of an imminent second earthquake, the task for Japanese authorities is too daunting to imagine.
Some 2,400 people have now been killed since last week’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami but officials believe the death toll could rise into the tens of thousands, with a further 2,000 bodies washing up on the shores of north-east Japan yesterday.
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MIDDLE EAST
Tumult builds in Arab peninsula.
Saudi soldiers sent into Bahrain. Official: Saudi soldier shot dead in Bahrain. Iran calls Saudi troops in Bahrain ‘unacceptable’.
Israel intercepts suspected weapons ship -military. Israel says its navy intercepts Egypt-bound ship carrying arms off Mediterranean coast. Israel intercepts suspected weapons ship: military.
Anti-government tribesmen kill 4 Yemeni soldiers. Yemeni tribesmen keep oil pipeline ablaze.
Iraq to close controversial jail.
ASIA
Radiation level soars after Japan nuke plant fire. Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe. Blasts, fire escalate Japan's nuclear crisis. Japan earthquake: disaster by numbers.
North Korea 'ready to discuss nuclear enrichment'. North Korea says willing to discuss uranium enrichment.
North Korea agrees to return of 27 people from South.
India border guards killed in Assam rebel attack.
Pakistan delays ruling on CIA immunity. Pakistan defers ruling on C.I.A. operative.
AFRICA
Gadhafi ground, air forces reach rebel stronghold. Libyan forces launch new attack on rebel-held town. Gaddafi forces press rebels, no-fly diplomacy crawls. Libyan rebels defeated in last enclave west of Tripoli as Gaddafi forces advance on Benghazi.
Ivory Coast crisis: Gbagbo forces attacked in Abidjan. Ivory Coast's 'Invisible Commandos' attack renegade president's strongholds.
S. Sudanese rebels attempt attack on state capital. South Sudan accuses north of planning genocide.
Somali pirates get life for attack on US frigate. Will it be a deterrence?
EUROPE
Japan nuclear crisis sends ripples across Europe, causes rethink in Germany.
France fails to get G8 accord on Libya no-fly zone.
Russia, U.S. confer on new START.
No wonder the UK lags behind America: we're a bitter and broken nation.
AMERICAS
Special report: Big California quake likely to devastate state.
Haiti: US urges Jean-Bertrand Aristide to delay return.
Argentina's president will use Falklands as key to re-election.
Guerrillas attack military base on Colombia-Ecuador border.
TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR
US feared British 'sharia banks' would finance terrorist groups.
Jihadi media outfit rolls out a terrorist lady mag.
Russia concerned by resumption of Guantanamo tribunals.
US Predators strike again in North Waziristan, kill 6.
ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS
Japan nuclear crisis sparks selling from equities to commodities.
Japan crisis pushes up computer chip prices.
BMW raises sales outlook to more than 1.5 mn autos.
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9.
£1 million for 'world's most expensive dog'.
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