LAST weekend I posted a picture on Facebook. It showed the two boys, Fionn (3) and Luke (1), sitting on two separate couches in the living room watching television.

Radiation exceeding government safety limits has seeped into groundwater under a tsunami-crippled Japanese nuclear plant, according to the operator, but has not affected drinking supplies.

Soldiers fought their way through a torrent of mud and rocks at a hot spring today where several people were believed to be buried after an earthquake hit northern Japan, killing at least seven and injuring more than 200.

A robot mole that can swim along blood vessels and burrow into tissue to deliver drugs or lance tumours has been successfully tested.