Japan's Fukushima city will hand radiation dosimeters to 34,000 children to gauge their exposure from the crippled nuclear power plant about 60 kilometres away.
Almost three-quarters of Japanese respondents to a newspaper poll favour a gradual phase-out of nuclear energy
in the wake of the Fukushima atomic accident
.
Britain and Bill Gates joined forces to pledge more than half of the $3.7 billion sought to vaccinate nearly 250 million children against preventable diseases.