THE operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant said it had found water with five million times the legal limit of radioactivity as it struggles for a fourth week to contain the world’s biggest nuclear disaster in quarter of a century.

An injured and abandoned baby humpback whale that spent nearly a week bonding with boats off north Sydney was put down after vets said it was too weak to survive.

World leaders meeting tomorrow to discuss rocketing food prices need to concentrate on long-term shortages if they are to solve the problem, experts said today.

The Bank of England has cut the base rate from 5.5% to 5.25% - its lowest level since October, 1999.