Tsunami advisories in some areas of the U.S. are being canceled as concerns about devastating damage faded in Japan and along the U.S. Pacific Coast.
There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
A Japanese government panel has roughly accepted a draft proposal for releasing into the sea massive amounts of radioactive water now being stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.
Long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a bizarre creature with a Venus flytrap-like head swam the seas. Scientists have uncovered fossils of a tiny faceless prehistoric sea worm with 50 spines jutting out of its head.
Navy official, John M. Daniels says on Tuesday morning, two missiles were launched as part of test flights.
Officials say more than 7,700 gallons of oil has been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretches across 9 miles of California coast -- just a fraction of the crude that escaped from a broken pipeline.