Chilean talk show host Mario Kreutzberger denied Tuesday that he had anything to do with an alleged attempt to bribe a laboratory worker into altering the DNA results in his paternity case.
"Perhaps even more impressive than Japan's technological power is its social strength, with supermarkets cutting prices and vending machine owners giving out free drinks as people work together to survive. Most noticeably of all, there has been no looting, and I'm not the only one curious about this," writes Ed West at his London Daily Telegraph blog.

The massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan Friday ranks as the fifth largest in the world since 1900, scientists said.

For the world's media soon to descend on London for the royal wedding, fairytale endings don't come cheap.
You won't notice it, but the day just got a tiny bit shorter because of Friday's giant earthquake off the coast of Japan.

The tsunami warnings moved faster than the waves, giving millions of people across the Pacific hours to flee to higher ground. Now they are left to clean up what the waves had wrought: Destroyed docks and damaged boats.
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake on Sunday shook a northern region of Chile that has felt several frightening but inconsequential tremors in recent days. No injuries and only minor damage were reported.

The U.S. Davis Cup team is still considered the favorite against Chile despite playing on a clay surface in the first-round Davis Cup series.
Sam Querrey will miss the United States' first-round Davis Cup matches against Chile because of a right rotator cuff injury.