Snapshots: the world in 24 hours, March 23

Handout photo from the Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency shows Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers checking the parameters of instruments in the central control room at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture northeastern Japan March 23, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

A car sits in a cemetery in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture March 23, 2011 following the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. [Photo/Agencies]