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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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Matsuzaka makes 1st rehab start

SALEM, United States - Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka pitches in a professional game for the first time since May 16, 2011, and since undergoing Tommy John surgery last June. Matsuzaka began a rehab assignment with the Single-A Advanced Salem in Salem, Virginia, on April 23, 2012.

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Uotsuri Island

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2011 shows Uotsuri Island, part of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said April 16, 2012, that the Tokyo metropolitan government is in negotiations with the owners of the disputed islands with the aim of buying them by the end of this year to protect Japanese territory.

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Singer Akiko Futaba dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2003 shows Japanese singer Akiko Futaba. The singer died of heart failure in Hiroshima on Aug. 16, 2011 at age 96.

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Filipinos celebrate national hero who briefly visited Japan

MANILA, Philippines - Photo taken June 16, 2011, at the Philippine National Library in Manila, shows a portrait on display there of Seiko Usui, more commonly known to Filipinos as O-Sei-san, the Japanese love interest of the Philippines' national hero Jose Rizal, who visited Japan from Feb. 28 to April 13, 1888. The Philippines celebrated the 150th anniversary of Rizal's birth on June 19, 2011.

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Matsui's bat strikes to help lift A's over Tigers

OAKLAND, California - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui hits an RBI double during the fourth inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 16, 2011. Matsui went 2-for-4 as his team won 6-2.

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Matsui's bat strikes to help lift A's over Tigers

OAKLAND, California - Oakland Athletics designated hitter Hideki Matsui singles to left during the second inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 16, 2011. Matsui went 2-for-4 as his team won 6-2.

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Nuclear crisis could push Japan growth below IMF forecast

WASHINGTON, United States - Naoyuki Shinohara, International Monetary Fund deputy managing director, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Washington on April 16, 2011. He said uncertainty surrounding the nuclear crisis coupled with power supply shortages could drag Japan's economic growth this year beneath the 1.4 percent increase forecast most recently by the IMF.

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Japan's PM shows deep 'regret' over nuclear crisis

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan expresses deep ''regret'' over the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in his country in an article contributed to the International Herald Tribune published on April 16, 2011. He contributed the article to several English newspapers.

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U.S. Secretary of State Clinton in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung Hwan (L) and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shake hands in Seoul on April 16, 2011, before their meeting. The two are believed to have talked about the situation at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan and the stalled six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea. Clinton will leave for Japan after meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung Bak the following day.

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Military parade in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba - A military parade is held in Havana, Cuba, on April 16, 2011.

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Search efforts at Otsuchi

OTSUCHI, Japan - Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces on a boat probe floating objects at Otsuchi port in the quake and tsunami-hit town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 16, 2011.

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Military parade in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba - A military parade is held in Havana, Cuba, on April 16, 2011.

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Sushi served at evacuation center

KAMAISHI, Japan - A sushi chef slices a 25-kilogram tuna caught off Kochi Prefecture at an evacuation center in quake-hit Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 16, 2011. About 20 chefs served sushi to evacuees at the shelter on the day.

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Photos recovered from debris in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - A woman looks at photographs retrieved from debris on display in an evacuation center in quake and tsunami-hit Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 16, 2011.

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Alpine route opens for new season

TOYAMA, Japan - Visitors walk through ''Yuki no Kairo (snow corridor)'' near Tateyama Murodo plateau in Tateyama City, Toyama Prefecture, on April 16, 2011, the opening day of the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route.

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Flooded road in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman walks on a high tide flooded road on April 16, 2011, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Alpine route opens for new season

TOYAMA, Japan - Visitors stand in the snow near ''Yuki no Otani (Huge valley of snow),'' a popular pedestrian walkway on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, in Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, on April 16, 2011, the opening day of the route. The popular walkway, lined with 17-meter snow walls, was closed that day due to the snowstorm.

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Postman in Otsuchi

OTSUCHI, Japan - A mailman rides on a motorcycle on April 16, 2011, in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japanese, Brazilian foreign ministers' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R) and Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota shake hands at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on April 16, 2011, ahead of their meeting. Patriota said after the meeting that Brazil would study easing its current restrictions on food imports from Japan in accordance with future improvements in the situation at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Qauke aftermath in Otsuchi

OTSUCHI, Japan - Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces salute in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 16, 2011, before the body of a victim of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami is driven away.