Sydney - Australian police Saturday seized video clips and log books from the militant Sea Shepherd protest ship that clashed with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, news reports said Saturday.
Police boarded the Steve Irwin on Friday when it docked at Hobart, Tasmania, and confiscated video, taken from the ship's helicopter, showing a whaler's explosive-tipped harpoon piercing a whale.
"The whale was then pulled alongside the boat and it was shot seven times with a shotgun," Steve Irwin crew member Andrew Perry told Hobart's Mercury newspaper. "It was an incredibly distressing thing to behold. We've never been able to get footage like that before. It's going to be damning."
Tokyo - Forty-three people were injured - one suffering a broken neck - when a Boeing 747-400 of the US company Northwest Airlines plunged briefly in violent turbulence off the Japanese coast Friday, according to local media reports.
They quoted witnesses as saying the aircraft, arriving from Manila and in a holding pattern prior to landing at Tokyo's Narita airport, suddenly plunged and then immediately regained its altitude, causing chaos on board.
Tokyo - Three Filipino passengers were seriously injured and more than 30 others suffered minor injuries Friday in turbulence encountered by a Northwest Airlines flight headed to Japan, media repo
Tokyo - Japan's central bank on Thursday decided to keep the short-term interest rate unchanged at 0.1 per cent as the nation suffers through the worst recession in its postwar era.
The Bank of Japan's policy board voted unanimously to forego an rate hike at the end of a two-day meeting after it lowered the rate from 0.3 per cent in December.
Tokyo - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday apologized for having to replace his finance minister during a recession and while the budget was being debated and accepted responsibility for appointing Shoichi Nakagawa to the post.
"The responsibility for appointing him to a cabinet minister resides on me, of course," Aso told the House of Representatives Budget Committee in response to an opposition party demand for an apology.
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Tokyo - Forty-three people were injured - one suffering a broken neck - when a Boeing 747-400 of the US company Northwest Airlines plunged briefly in violent turbulence off the Japanese coast Friday, according to local media reports.
Tokyo - Japan's central bank on Thursday decided to keep the short-term interest rate unchanged at 0.1 per cent as the nation suffers through the worst recession in its postwar era.
Tokyo - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday apologized for having to replace his finance minister during a recession and while the budget was being debated and accepted responsibility for appointing Shoichi Nakagawa to the post.
