The five included the plane's pilot and four Sun Princess cruise ship passengers, who were on the second day of a weeklong, round-trip cruise from Seattle, Washington..When the single-engine DeHavilland Beaver did not return, rescue helicopters were dispatched to the location of the flight seeing route. These helicopters subsequently spotted the float plane which crashed in rugged terrain."We are devastated to report that our passengers and the plane's pilot perished in the accident, our shoreside care team is doing everything possible to help their families through this difficult tragedy,

The world's biggest nuclear power plant reported a fire and a radiation leak at the facility after Monday's quake. Low radioactivity leaked from nuke plant into sea..More than 12,000 people huddled in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on after the earthquake flattened homes, killing nine elderly people and injuring around 1,000.Number of deaths blamed on Japanese quake rises to nine and 900 hurt.. cnn.com

At least 13 people died in the Solomon Islands Monday after two earthquakes and a tsunami hit the western part of the island-chain nation.The government's Web site reportes, in South Choiseul, waves 10 meters high swept through the Sasamunga village northeast of Gizo, destroying villages, food gardens and a hospital. Health centers and schools in surrounding villages were also devastated.It was fortunate that the tsunami hit during daylight hours when the early warning signs of receding tides were noticed, causing people to seek higher ground."A lot of people" were missing, what may be