world snapshot Another month to stabilise nuclear plant Death toll at 10,000

THE death toll from Japan's worst post-war disaster topped 10,000 last night as the operator of a radiation-belching nuclear plant warned that work to stabilise it may take another month. Two weeks after a giant quake struck and sent a massive tsunami crashing into the country's Pacific coast, Japan held out little hope of finding alive another 17,500 listed as missing...