NUCLEAR power plant workers taken to hospital with skin lesions after radiation exposure.

A WOMAN died after falling more than 400 metres from a slippery ice face in New Zealand's Fiordland National Park.

A SEVEN-MONTH-OLD baby girl from Paraguay has been returned to her teenage mother after police busted a criminal ring that abducted and trafficked children, officials say.

JEREMY Morlock pleads guilty to murdering Afghan civilians, but avoids life sentence with deal that could see him paroled by 2019.

MILITARY base near Libyan capital reportedly hit by coalition as Hillary Clinton says Gaddafi can end the crisis quickly by leaving.

AT least four people including two traffic policemen were killed and 17 others wounded in a rocket attack in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province overnight, police said.

A WILD sex life can be deadly, because even one bedroom romp can trigger dangerous cardiac events and sudden heart attacks.

SAME-sex couples cannot get married while it considers whether ballot measure banning gay marriage is constitutional, says US federal appeals court.

IMAGES of stricken nuclear plant reveal the frightening conditions in which 50 brave men are working to save Japan from meltdown.

EMERGENCY crews start up water jets again at damaged nuclear reactor a day after dark smoke forced their evacuation.

RELATIVES wept and soldiers saluted as dozens of Japan's tsunami victims in simple coffins were buried in a mass grave.

BLACK smoke rises from nuclear reactor as Japan's quake and tsunami toll surpasses 24,000 amid radiation fears. 

NUMBER of confirmed dead or missing in Japan after earthquake and tsunami surpasses 24,000, as radiation detected in Europe.

LU Hao has an insatiable appetite but his parents are still at a loss to explain why their son is so big they can't pick him up.

AN Irish actor was making headlines today with his performance as Hamlet - for an unexpected reason.

SYRIAN security forces fire on anti-regime protesters near a mosque, killing five and wounding scores, a rights activist says.

A 92-YEAR-OLD Florida woman was arrested yesterday after she fired a handgun into her neighbour's house when he refused to give her a kiss.

THOUSANDS of endangered penguins have been coated with oil after a cargo ship ran aground and broke up on a remote British South Atlantic territory.

FORMER Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he gave up his post as leader of the Communist Party five years ago, when he handed power to his brother Raul.

MINUSCULE amounts of radiation detected in Iceland, with France and UK bracing for fallout from stricken Fukushima plant.