“Accidents and disasters” on The Daily Caller

Libya has replaced Japan in mainstream media reports. But while the new crusaders from Europe and America bomb and strafe Libyans who they think deserve to die, we should remember that other tragedy in Japan. Why? Because the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) says the GE-designed reactors in Fukushima have 23 sisters in the United States. What happened in Japan could happen here. (more)

TOKYO — Crews at the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant reached a milestone Tuesday as they finished connecting external power to all six of the facility’s reactors. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a time of unparalleled aviation safety in the United States, reports of mistakes by air traffic controllers have nearly doubled — a seeming contradiction that puzzles safety experts. (more)

Police removed more than 100 passengers from a Ryanair plane preparing to leave the Canary Islands after a large scuffle broke out onboard. (more)

The Gulf of Mexico could be largely recovered from the effects of the massive BP oil spill by 2014, the Obama administration’s point man in charge of the firm’s $20 billion victims’ compensation fund said Wednesday. (more)

CAIRNS, Australia (AP) — The tail end of one of Australia’s largest-ever cyclones triggered wild storms and flash flooding at the other end of the country Saturday, while residents in the cyclone zone picked through what was left of their homes. (more)

A man who apparently shot himself dead in Queens last week was found early Tuesday in a car buried under several feet of snow, police and fire officials said. (more)

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is preparing to resume flight operations after icy weather grounded flights for about an hour there this morning. (more)

VIENNA (AP) — The control systems of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant have been penetrated by a computer worm unleashed last year, according to a foreign intelligence report that warns of a possible Chernobyl-like disaster once the site becomes fully operational. (more)

On January 28, 1986, seventy three seconds after liftoff, the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all on board. (more)

In August, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that the floods that were ravaging Pakistan at the time were linked to global warming. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Enough already. (more)

A pilot who turned up so drunk at Heathrow that he didn’t know where he was supposed to fly his transatlantic passenger plane has been jailed for six months. (more)

A 22-year-old man was killed in a workplace accident Monday — crushed after falling into a mixer at a Brooklyn tortilla factory, police said. (more)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The new head of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission said Thursday that replacing the snow-damaged roof of the Metrodome would likely take five to six months, raising the possibility of affecting next season’s schedule for the Minnesota Vikings. (more)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — The United States Geological Service has reported a major earthquake in a remote area in southwestern Pakistan measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale. (more)

TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — As night fell, barefoot volunteers dragged a generator and stadium lights into a town cemetery, where nearly 200 freshly dug graves lay open like wounds in the red clay soil, waiting for some of the hundreds killed by torrential rains. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal safety officials urged Tuesday that aircraft owners be required to retrofit small planes with shoulder-lap seatbelts, but stopped short of calling for the installation of air bags. (more)

While many Pennsylvanians celebrated the arrival of 2011 on New Year’s Eve, home builders in the state likely did not blow their bugles and pop their poppers with quite as much exuberance. That is because this year marks the beginning of a new government mandate in Pennsylvania requiring that all new one- and two-family homes have an automatic fire sprinkler system — a feature that costs thousands of dollars. (more)

BEIJING (AP) — A rare Siberian tiger attacked and killed a tour bus driver in northern China while the man’s horrified passengers watched, Chinese media reported. (more)