Japan stops nuclear plant leak; crisis far from over

Japan stopped highly radioactive water leaking into the sea on Wednesday from a crippled nuclear plant and acknowledged it could have given more information to neighboring countries about contamination in the ocean. Despite the breakthrough in plugging the leak at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, engineers need to pump 11.5 million liters (11,500 tons) of contaminated water back into the ocean because they have run out of storage space at the facility. The...

India set to harvest record grains, may allow exports

India's record grains output in 2011 may prompt the government to allow wheat exports, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday, boosting the prospect of overseas sales of the grain from the world's second - biggest producer. Junior Farm Minister Arun Yadav last month said the country could lift a four-year-old ban on the overseas sale of the grain. Pawar, a key member of a panel of ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on food, has favoured overseas...