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80th A-bomb anniversary

Women pray during a ceremony in Sapporo in Hokkaido on Aug. 6, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. A group including second-generation survivors and their supporters hosted the ceremony, replacing a survivors' group in the northern Japan city that disbanded in March due to the ageing of members.

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80th A-bomb anniversary

People pray during a ceremony in Sapporo in Hokkaido on Aug. 6, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. A group including second-generation survivors and their supporters hosted the ceremony, replacing a survivors' group in the northern Japan city that disbanded in March due to the ageing of members.

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Queen Maxima Visits Village - The Netherlands

Queen Maxima visits the village of Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands on July 4, 2024. The visit is aimed at maintaining the quality of life and attractiveness for all residents of the village, while facilities are declining and the close-knit community is ageing. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Maxima Visits Village - The Netherlands

Queen Maxima visits the village of Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands on July 4, 2024. The visit is aimed at maintaining the quality of life and attractiveness for all residents of the village, while facilities are declining and the close-knit community is ageing. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Maxima Visits Village - The Netherlands

Queen Maxima visits the village of Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands on July 4, 2024. The visit is aimed at maintaining the quality of life and attractiveness for all residents of the village, while facilities are declining and the close-knit community is ageing. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Maxima Visits Village - The Netherlands

Queen Maxima visits the village of Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands on July 4, 2024. The visit is aimed at maintaining the quality of life and attractiveness for all residents of the village, while facilities are declining and the close-knit community is ageing. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Maxima Visits Village - The Netherlands

Queen Maxima visits the village of Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands on July 4, 2024. The visit is aimed at maintaining the quality of life and attractiveness for all residents of the village, while facilities are declining and the close-knit community is ageing. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Maxima Visits Village - The Netherlands

Queen Maxima visits the village of Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands on July 4, 2024. The visit is aimed at maintaining the quality of life and attractiveness for all residents of the village, while facilities are declining and the close-knit community is ageing. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Maxima Visits Village - The Netherlands

Queen Maxima visits the village of Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands on July 4, 2024. The visit is aimed at maintaining the quality of life and attractiveness for all residents of the village, while facilities are declining and the close-knit community is ageing. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Maxima Visits Village - The Netherlands

Queen Maxima visits the village of Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands on July 4, 2024. The visit is aimed at maintaining the quality of life and attractiveness for all residents of the village, while facilities are declining and the close-knit community is ageing. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Maxima Visits Village - The Netherlands

Queen Maxima visits the village of Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands on July 4, 2024. The visit is aimed at maintaining the quality of life and attractiveness for all residents of the village, while facilities are declining and the close-knit community is ageing. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Maxima Visits Village - The Netherlands

Queen Maxima visits the village of Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands on July 4, 2024. The visit is aimed at maintaining the quality of life and attractiveness for all residents of the village, while facilities are declining and the close-knit community is ageing. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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AUSTRALIA-SA-WINE-PRODUCTION

(240315) -- CANBERRA, March 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Kym Teusner, a winery owner, checks the wine's ageing process in Barossa Valley in South Australia (SA), Australia, March 12, 2024. The grape harvest season has started in South Australia, a major wine making region in Australia. (Xinhua/Zhang Jianhua)

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Skill loss poses threat to Australian manufacturing industry: report

STORY: Skill loss poses threat to Australian manufacturing industry: report SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 15, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:16 LOCATION: Canberra CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of machines 2. various of workers in workshop (file) STORYLINE: Australia's manufacturing industry is under threat from a generational loss of skills and expertise, research has warned. In a study published on Thursday, researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) found that a decline in craft skills in employment since 2006 has been exacerbated by some manufacturers moving their operations offshore, causing a loss of knowledge that threatens Australia's ability to sustain a local manufacturing industry. "The biggest threat to Australia's making economy is its ageing workforce. Australia benefited hugely from trade-skills migration in the decades following WW2 and up until the 1980s we had a strong domestic manufacturing sector," Susan Luckman, author of the study and director of the Creati

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(CIIE)CHINA-SHANGHAI-HONGQIAO-FORUM-PARALLEL SESSION(CN)

(231106) -- SHANGHAI, Nov. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- The parallel session on Silver Economy: New Opportunities from Global Ageing of the sixth Hongqiao International Economic Forum is held in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

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(CIIE)CHINA-SHANGHAI-HONGQIAO-FORUM-PARALLEL SESSION(CN)

(231106) -- SHANGHAI, Nov. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- The parallel session on Silver Economy: New Opportunities from Global Ageing of the sixth Hongqiao International Economic Forum is held in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

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Center Pompidou Will Close For Works From 2025 To 2030

File photo dated July 10, 2018 - The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. The iconic Paris landmark, home to Europe’s largest modern art gallery, was opened in 1977 and is beginning to show obvious signs of ageing. - Five years of closure for the Center Pompidou in Paris. One of the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, will completely close for work at the end of 2025 and will reopen in 2030, the Minister of Culture announced on Wednesday. Photo by Mario Fourmy/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Center Pompidou Will Close For Works From 2025 To 2030

File photo dated July 10, 2018 - The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. The iconic Paris landmark, home to Europe’s largest modern art gallery, was opened in 1977 and is beginning to show obvious signs of ageing. - Five years of closure for the Center Pompidou in Paris. One of the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, will completely close for work at the end of 2025 and will reopen in 2030, the Minister of Culture announced on Wednesday. Photo by Mario Fourmy/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Center Pompidou Will Close For Works From 2025 To 2030

File photo dated July 10, 2018 - The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. The iconic Paris landmark, home to Europe’s largest modern art gallery, was opened in 1977 and is beginning to show obvious signs of ageing. - Five years of closure for the Center Pompidou in Paris. One of the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, will completely close for work at the end of 2025 and will reopen in 2030, the Minister of Culture announced on Wednesday. Photo by Mario Fourmy/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Low birth rates problematic for ageing EU population: Spanish expert

STORY: Low birth rates problematic for ageing EU population: Spanish expert DATELINE: March 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:56 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Catalan): ALBERT ESTEVE, Director of the Center for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Catalan): ALBERT ESTEVE, Director of the Center for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (Catalan): ALBERT ESTEVE, Director of the Center for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (Catalan): ALBERT ESTEVE, Director of the Center for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona 5. SOUNDBITE 5 (Catalan): ALBERT ESTEVE, Director of the Center for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona 6. SOUNDBITE 6 (Catalan): ALBERT ESTEVE, Director of the Center for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona STORYLINE: The average age of the European population has gone up by 2.5 years in the past decade, according to Eurostat data published recently. In Spain, the average age has climbed by 4.3 years, the

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Keidanren calls for sales tax hike for social security costs

TOKYO, Japan - Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, speaks in Tokyo on Aug. 28. He said the consumption tax should be raised to finance the social security system in the face of Japan's rapidly ageing population and dwindling birthrate.

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(CIIE) CHINA-SHANGHAI-HONGQIAO-FORUM-PARALLEL SESSION (CN)

(221105) -- SHANGHAI, Nov. 5, 2022 (Xinhua) -- The parallel session on Opportunity Sharing for Global Ageing of the fifth Hongqiao International Economic Forum is held in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 5, 2022. (Xinhua/Wang Xiang)

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President Bouteflika Casts his Ballot - Algiers

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika casts his vote at the school Mohamed El-Bachir El-Ibrahimi d'El Biar in Algiers, Algeria, on May 10, 2012. Algeria today held its first polls since the Arab Spring amid deep voter disaffection, with the ageing ruling party confident of victory and its Islamist allies hoping for a strong showing. Photo by Ammi Louiza/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Keidanren calls for sales tax hike for social security costs

TOKYO, Japan - Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, speaks in Tokyo on Aug. 28. He said the consumption tax should be raised to finance the social security system in the face of Japan's rapidly ageing population and dwindling birthrate. (Kyodo)

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THE BROTHERS GRIMM

THE BROTHERS GRIMM [US / BR / CZECH 2005] MONICA BELLUCCI Date: 2005

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LITTLE BIG MAN

LITTLE BIG MAN [US 1970] DUSTIN HOFFMAN Date: 1970

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THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE

THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE POMEROY CANNON, RUDOLPH VALENTINO THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE POMEROY CANNON, RUDOLPH VALENTINO Date: 1921

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GOODBYE, MR CHIPS

GOODBYE, MR CHIPS ROBERT DONAT, TERRY KILBURN Date: 1939

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FEATURE: Ageing hamlet rejuvenated with soul-searching youth

Kanako Sato, a 29-year-old mother who relocated to the Iketani settlement to do farming, poses for a photo with her daughter at terraced paddy fields in the city of Tokamachi in Niigata Prefecture on Nov. 26, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo