withstand
a disaster like the earthquake that caused the problems in Japan. There are also proposals for a new set of global safety standards. A BBC correspondent says the nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, is likely to be given a bigger role in
guarantee
ing safety.
The British government has announced a new strategy to tackle home-grown terrorism. The Home Secretary Theresa May said that the greatest threat to Britain continues to come from al-Qaeda. She added that the government had to stop people before they were radicalised.
"Osama Bin Laden may be dead, but the threat from al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism is not. Indeed the threat level from international terrorism remains at 'severe', meaning an attack is highly likely. To tackle that threat, we must not only arrest and
prosecute
those who breach the law, but we must also stop people being drawn into terrorist-related activity
in the first place
."
Theresa May
Five people are reported to have been killed in a series of explosions in the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri. The latest deaths come a week after Boko Haram, an Islamist group that rejects Western education, admitted planting a bomb in a market that killed 16 people. From Nigeria, here's Jonah Fisher.
The attacks in Nigeria's northeast are now taking place on an almost daily basis. In Maiduguri, where Boko Haram have focused their activities, there were two bomb blasts at police stations and one at a church. The police said they'd shot dead three members of Boko Haram and recovered a gun. On Monday, a