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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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Abe announces plan to dissolve lower house, postpones tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe said he will dissolve the lower house on Nov. 21 for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike to 10 percent by 18 months to April 2017, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase the previous April.

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Abe announces plan to dissolve lower house, postpones tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe said he will dissolve the lower house on Nov. 21 for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike to 10 percent by 18 months to April 2017, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase the previous April.

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Abe announces plan to dissolve lower house, postpones tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe said he will dissolve the lower house on Nov. 21 for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike to 10 percent by 18 months to April 2017, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase the previous April.

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Abe announces plan to dissolve lower house, postpones tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe said he will dissolve the lower house on Nov. 21 for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike to 10 percent by 18 months to April 2017, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase the previous April.

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New antivirus hospital operating room to go on sale

OSAKA, Japan - Kikuo Toyoda, senior managing director at major industrial gas and medical product supplier Air Water Inc., speaks at a news conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014, about the company's new antivirus hospital operating room that will be available from April 2015. Air Water aims to win contracts for 100 rooms in the first fiscal year.

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Abe to dissolve lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) shakes hands with Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, which forms the ruling coalition with Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, ahead of their talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe told a meeting of the LDP the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and plans to hold a general election on Dec. 14 and postpone a planned consumption tax hike by 18 months to April 2017, a senior LDP lawmaker said.

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Abe to dissolve lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 18, 2014, shows the Japanese Diet in Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a meeting of his Liberal Democratic Party the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and plans to hold a general election on Dec. 14 and postpone a planned consumption tax hike by 18 months to April 2017, a senior LDP lawmaker said.

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Abe to dissolve lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) holds talks with Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, which forms the ruling coalition with Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe told a meeting of the LDP the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and plans to hold a general election on Dec. 14 and postpone a planned consumption tax hike by 18 months to April 2017, a senior LDP lawmaker said.

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Abe to dissolve lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) sits down with Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, which forms the ruling coalition with Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, ahead of their talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe told a meeting of the LDP the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and plans to hold a general election on Dec. 14 and postpone a planned consumption tax hike by 18 months to April 2017, a senior LDP lawmaker said.

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Arafune Cold Storage added to UNESCO list

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken April 18, 2014 shows the Arafune Cold Storage for silkworm eggs in Shimonita, Gunma Prefecture, which used cold air blowing from underground through gaps between rocks. The facility, called Fuketsu, was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in June 2014, along with the Tomioka Silk Mill and other related sites in the prefecture.

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Arafune cold storage in Gunma Pref.

MAEBASHI, Japan - Arafune cold storage for silkworm eggs, in the town of Shimonita, Gunma Prefecture, is photographed on April 18, 2014. An advisory panel to UNESCO recently recommended the storage site be added to the World Cultural Heritage list.

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S. Korean ferry sinking

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Photo taken April 18, 2014, shows rescue workers conducting search operations for missing people aboard the Sewol, the ferry that sank April 16 near the island of Jindo in southwestern South Korea.

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Beijing bus station crowed with commuters

BEIJING, China - A bus station in Beijing is crowded with people waiting for commuter buses bound for suburban destinations on April 18, 2014.

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'Time studies' lectured at Japanese university

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Makoto Akashi, a professor at the Research Institute for Time Studies at Yamaguchi University, lectures on the mechanisms of the biological clock in Yamaguchi, western Japan, on April 18, 2014, as he promotes the subject of "time studies" as a new interdisciplinary area.

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Yankees' 5-game winning streak cooled off by Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, the United States - New York Yankees right fielder Ichiro Suzuki catches a fly by Tampa Bay Rays' Logan Forsythe in the eighth inning of their game at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 18, 2014. The Yankees' five-game winning streak ended as the team lost 11-5.

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Farm minister on whaling

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi answers reporters' questions at the ministry in Tokyo on April 18, 2014. The minister was quizzed about the government's decision to aim to resume whaling in the Antarctic from next fiscal year.

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Harry Potter area

OSAKA, Japan - (From L) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and others attend a press event at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on the night of April 18, 2014, to announce that a new area based on the "Harry Potter" film series will open July 15.

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Kuroda, Yanks' 5-game hot streak cooled off by Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, the United States - New York Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda leaves the mound during the sixth inning of a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 18, 2014. Kuroda allowed three earned runs on seven hits and two walks in 5-2/3 innings as the Yankees lost 11-5.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korea agree to deter N. Korea from provocation

WASHINGTON, the United States - Hideshi Tokuchi, head of the Japanese Defense Ministry's Defense Policy Bureau, speaks to reporters at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on April 18, 2014, after the end of the two-day meeting of senior working-level defense officials from Japan, the United States and South Korea. They agreed to work together to deter North Korea from taking further provocative actions.

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Instability in Ukraine

DONETSK, Ukraine - A government building in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, remains occupied by a pro-Russian group on April 18, 2014.

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Kuroda, Yanks' 5-game hot streak cooled off by Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, the United States - New York Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda pitches against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 18, 2014. Kuroda allowed three earned runs on seven hits and two walks in 5-2/3 innings.

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S. Korean ferry sinking

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - The search continues April 18, 2014, for people missing after a ferry sank off the coast of Jindo Island, South Korea. More than 200 people remained missing in one of the country's worst maritime accidents.

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Kuroda, Yanks' 5-game hot streak cooled off by Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, the United States - New York Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda pitches against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 18, 2014. Kuroda allowed three earned runs on seven hits and two walks in 5-2/3 innings.

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Harry Potter area

OSAKA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smile during a press event at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on the night of April 18, 2014, to announce that a new area based on the "Harry Potter" film series will open July 15.

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Right to collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Kitagawa, deputy chief of the New Komeito party, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 18, 2014. Kitagawa cast doubt about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's move to lift an outright ban on exercising the right to collective self-defense.

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S. Korean ferry sinking

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - The search continues April 18, 2014, for people missing after a ferry sank off the coast of Jindo Island, South Korea. More than 200 people remained missing in one of the country's worst maritime accidents.

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Sand sculptures

TOTTORI, Japan - The Sand Museum in the city of Tottori, western Japan, shows 21 sand sculptures featuring Russia to reporters on April 18, 2014, before reopening April 19 following a renewal.

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S. Korean ferry sinking

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Huge buoys are placed April 18, 2014, at the site of a sunken ferry off the coast of Jindo Island, South Korea. More than 200 people remained missing in one of the country's worst maritime accidents.

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S. Korean ferry sinking

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Photo taken April 18, 2014, off the coast of Jindo Island, South Korea, shows buoys marking the site of a sunken ferry and cranes (back) deployed near the area. More than 200 people remained missing in one of South Korea's worst maritime accidents.

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S. Korean ferry sinking

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - A diver enters the sea April 18, 2014, to search for people missing after a ferry sank off the coast of Jindo Island, South Korea. More than 200 people remained missing in one of the country's worst maritime accidents.

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Giant squid

KANAZAWA, Japan - The remains of a giant squid, measuring 4.8 meters and weighing 30 kilograms, is displayed April 18, 2014, at a supermarket in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. The squid was found dead in a fixed fishing net in Toyama Bay.

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S. Korean ferry sinking

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - A woman prays while a monk chants a sutra at a port on Jindo Island, South Korea, on April 18, 2014. Many remain missing after the sinking of the ferry Sewol off the southern coast of South Korea on April 16.

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S. Korean ferry sinking

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Photo taken April 18, 2014, shows people, including relatives of those still missing after the sinking of the ferry Sewol off the southern coast of South Korea on April 16, gathering at a fishing port on Jindo Island.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a copy of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Elections in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Aburizal Bakrie (R), head of the Golkar Party, waves to supporters in Jakarta on March 18, 2014. Indonesia's parliamentary elections will be held on April 9.