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US: Super Typhoon Bavi Slams Guam, Northern Marianas 2

Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall Monday, July 6, passing directly over Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands around 8 a.m. local time, with sustained winds over 150 mph. Guam and nearby islands also reported major damage from the storm.

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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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Caroline Kennedy to become U.S. ambassador to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, holding a book signing in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 2, 2013. President Barack Obama will nominate Kennedy as ambassador to Japan, the White House said July 24, 2013.

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Caroline Kennedy to become U.S. ambassador to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, giving a speech in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 2, 2013. President Barack Obama will nominate Kennedy as ambassador to Japan, the White House said July 24, 2013.

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Caroline Kennedy to become U.S. ambassador to Japan

WASHINGTON, United States - Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, holds a book signing in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 2, 2013. A strong backer of President Barack Obama, Kennedy will become ambassador to Japan, sources close to Japan-U.S. relations said July 12, 2013.

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Helping foreigners become self-reliant

GIFU, Japan - Photo taken April 2, 2013 shows a Sony Corp. subsidiary's plant in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, which was shut down in the end of March.

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Comedian "Shizu-chan" keeps boxing after failed Olympic attempt

TOKYO, Japan - Comedian-turned-fighter Shizuyo Yamasaki (seated) has sweat wiped away by her trainer Masahiko Umetsu (R) during a break at the Challenge Match competition for nonprofessional female boxers at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall on April 2, 2013.

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Comedian "Shizu-chan" keeps boxing after failed Olympic attempt

TOKYO, Japan - Comedian-turned-fighter Shizuyo Yamasaki (L) competes against a Taiwanese opponent at the Challenge Match competition for nonprofessional female boxers at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall on April 2, 2013.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Children gather around a spring at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand, in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Children play at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand, in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Boys play in front of a wall with graffiti reading "WAKE UP MUSLIMS," in Abbottabad near Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 29, 2013. The wall is part of what remains of the hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. Navy Seals there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A man plows a field within a site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A boy passes by a wall with graffiti reading "Osama is a martyr," in Abbottabad near Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 29, 2013. The wall is part of what remains of the hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. Navy Seals there on May 2, 2011.

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1st non-Japanese head of Hiroshima peace center

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Steven Leeper, the first non-Japanese to have led the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, reflects on his six-year tenure in the position on April 2, 2013, in front of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima. Leeper stepped down as chairman of the center, which operates the museum, at the end of March.

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Work at Fukushima nuclear plant

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken on April 4, 2013, shows an area around a crack at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, from which highly radioactive water leaked into the sea in April 2011. The crack in front of the structure has been filled and covered with gravel. Installation work on a water shielding wall began at the plant on April 2, 2013.

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Brewers' Aoki against Rockies

MILWAUKEE, United States - Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Norichika Aoki hits a single to right during the ninth inning of a game against the Colorado Rockies at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 2, 2013. Aoki went 2-for-5 in an 8-4 home defeat to the Rockies.

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Iwakuma works 6 innings in strong debut

OAKLAND, United States - Seattle Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma (L) and catcher Jesus Montero touch gloves after the pitcher's season debut in a game against the Oakland Athletics at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 2, 2013. Iwakuma allowed a run in six innings and earned the victory in a 7-1 win.

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Iwakuma works 6 innings in strong debut

OAKLAND, United States - Seattle Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma pitches in a game against the Oakland Athletics at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 2, 2013. Iwakuma allowed a run in six innings and earned the victory in a 7-1 win.

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Caroline Kennedy

KANSAS CITY, United States - Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, speaks during an event in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 2, 2013. The U.S. media have reported Kennedy is likely to become the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, replacing John Roos.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish reacts after a hit by Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez in the ninth inning of his 2013 season debut game at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish (11) returns to the dugout after a hit by Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez in the ninth inning of his 2013 season debut game at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish speaks in a television interview after his 2013 season debut game at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington (L) shakes hands with starter Yu Darvish after leaving in the ninth inning of his 2013 season debut game against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish (11) returns to the dugout after a hit by Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez in the ninth inning of his 2013 season debut game at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish (11) reacts after a hit by Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez (front) in the ninth inning of his 2013 season debut game at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish pitches during his 2013 season debut game against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington (38) withdraws starter Yu Darvish after a hit by Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez in the ninth inning of his 2013 season debut game at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Annika Sorenstam

RANCHO MIRAGE, United States - Retired golf legend Annika Sorenstam of Sweden speaks during a press conference in Rancho Mirage, California, on April 2, 2013.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish pitches during his 2013 season debut game against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish surrenders a hit to Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez in the ninth inning of his 2013 season debut game at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish pitches during his 2013 season debut game against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish pitches during his 2013 season debut game against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Darvish flirts with perfect game

HOUSTON, United States - Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish pitches during his 2013 season debut game against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 2, 2013. The right-hander came within one out of throwing a perfect game in the Rangers' 7-0 victory.

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Kerry slams N. Korea

WASHINGTON, United States - South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se (L) and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a joint press conference at the State Department in Washington on April 2, 2013. Kerry criticized North Korea's plan to restart its nuclear facilities as a direct violation of its international obligations and pledged to defend South Korea and Japan from security threats from Pyongyang.

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U.N. passes arms trade treaty

NEW YORK, United States - The U.N. General Assembly discusses a landmark arms trade treaty that will help regulate the global flow of conventional arms for the first time in New York on April 2, 2013. The assembly adopted the treaty later in the day.

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Seiko Matsuda

OSAKA, Japan - Veteran singer Seiko Matsuda takes part in a first-pitch ceremony ahead of a Central League game between the Hanshin Tigers and the Chunichi Dragons at Kyocera Dome in Osaka on April 2, 2013.

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2011 disaster documentary wins award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese film director Kaoru Ikeya. His film "Senzoninaru" (Becoming an Ancestor), with the English title "Roots," about an elderly man's struggle following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami received the top award in the documentary category at the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival on April 2, 2013.

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Yongbyon nuclear complex

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows North Korea's key Yongbyon nuclear complex before its cooling tower (R) was demolished on June 27, 2008. North Korea said April 2, 2013, that it will restart all nuclear facilities at the Yongbyon complex that were shut down under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in 2007.

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4 more people in China infected with H7N9 bird flu

SHANGHAI, China - Shanghai city officials hold a press conference in the Chinese city on an outbreak of bird flu, on April 2, 2013. Four people in Jiangsu Province have been infected with H7N9 type bird flu and are in grave condition, Chinese media said the same day, bringing to seven the number of people in China who have been infected with the H7N9 virus since the first cases were reported March 31.

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World Autism Awareness Day

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Tower in Tokyo's Minato Ward is lit up in blue to mark World Autism Awareness Day on April 2, 2013.

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Saibi High School's Anraku pitches hard

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Saibi High School right-hander Tomohiro Anraku throws against Urawagakuin High School in the final of the national high school baseball invitational tournament at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on April 2, 2013. Urawagakuin beat Saibi 17-1 to clinch a pennant.

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World Autism Awareness Day

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd from R) attends a ceremony in Tokyo's Minato Ward to illuminate Tokyo Tower in blue to mark World Autism Awareness Day on the evening of April 2, 2013.

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Hirano to run in election as independent

MORIOKA, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano, who served as reconstruction minister under the government led by the Democratic Party of Japan, tells a press conference at the Iwate prefectural government office building in Morioka on April 2, 2013, that he will run in the upcoming House of Councillors election as an independent. Hirano submitted a letter the same day to the DPJ stating his intention to leave the main opposition party.

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New Kabukiza theater

TOKYO, Japan - Theatergoers wait in front of the new Kabukiza theater for its opening in Tokyo's Ginza district on April 2, 2013. The theater reopened the same day after a three-year hiatus due to renovation work.

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Yongbyon nuclear complex

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the demolition of the 30-meter cooling tower attached to North Korea's key Yongbyon nuclear complex on June 27, 2008. North Korea said April 2, 2013, that it will restart all nuclear facilities at the Yongbyon complex that were shut down under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in 2007.

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Chinese unofficial envoy in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Li Xiaolin (R), the head of a key Chinese organization involved in people-to-people diplomacy with foreign countries, attends an exhibition in Tokyo of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy masters on April 2, 2013, together with former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) and his wife Miyuki (2nd from L). Li was in Japan in her capacity as president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.

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Electric sports car unveiled in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Tommy kaira ZZ, an electric sports car, is unveiled by its developer, Green Lord Motors, an electric vehicle venture firm in Kyoto, in the ancient Japanese capital on April 2, 2013.

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Chinese unofficial envoy in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Li Xiaolin (2nd from L), the head of a key Chinese organization involved in people-to-people diplomacy with foreign countries, attends the opening of an exhibition in Tokyo of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy masters on April 2, 2013, together with former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (2nd from R). Li was in Japan in her capacity as president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.

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Matsuyama announces decision to turn pro

SENDAI, Japan - Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama speaks at a press conference at Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai on April 2, 2013. Matsuyama, a senior at the university, announced his decision to turn pro, with his first tournament set for the Token Homemate Cup starting April 18.

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Firm raided over workers' bile duct cancer

OSAKA, Japan - Investigators from the Osaka Labor Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare leave printing firm Sanyo-CYP Co. in Osaka on April 2, 2013, after confiscating documents during a search on suspicion that the company neglected its duty to take proper care of its workers' health. Seventeen workers suffered from bile duct cancer, eight of whom have died.