Incidents

Seawater near Japan's crippled nuclear reactors is said to have a much higher level of radioactive iodine than previously reported, BBC News reported.

Plutonium found in soil at the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex on Tuesday, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Contamination in the ocean has spread about a mile (1.6 kilometers) farther north of the nuclear site as waste from the plant was leaking into the ocean, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A venomous Egyptian cobra went missing from New York's Bronx Zoo, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Another earthquake has shaken the north-east coast of Japan, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A 22-year-old woman from Kazakhstan was arrested Tuesday at an Aspen bank for allegedly stealing more than $17,000 using a fake vehicle-sales website, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A 6.8-magnitude earthqauke killed more than 40 people in Myanmar Thursday, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A 92-year-old Florida woman shot up her neighbor's house after he refused to kiss her, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Tokyo officials have started giving out 240,000 half-litre bottles of water to 80,000 families with infants in the city, 137 miles south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, after panic buying in the capital cleared supermarket shelves, Kazakhstan Today reports.

More than 4,000 tourists were evacuated on Wednesday from the Eiffel Tower after a suspicious package was found, Kazakhstan Today reports.