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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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Abandoned animals in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 21, 2012, shows dogs that have been abandoned by their owners. The town remains nearly deserted as the government in April 2011 designated it and other municipalities within a 20-kilometer ring around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as a no-go zone. The plant's reactors suffered meltdowns after being struck by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, spewing massive amounts of radioactive materials into the air and sea.

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Actor Sugiura dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows veteran Japanese actor Naoki Sugiura speaking of his joy after receiving a government decoration in Tokyo in April 2006. Sugiura died of lung adenocarcinoma aged 79 at his home in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2011.

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Ex-official speaks on Aceh restoration

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, former chairman of the Aceh-Nias Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency, speaks in an interview in Jakarta on April 21, 2011. He spoke on the restoration of Aceh from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and of areas hit by a major quake and tsunami in Japan.

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Thai woman makes good living by plucking gray hairs

BANGKOK, Thailand - Woranan Dodocha plucks gray hairs from a customer at a store in Bangkok on April 21, 2011. Customers seeking to rid of their gray hairs without using dyes find the answer at Woranan's store, where she uses a comb and tweezers to pull them out one by one.

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Preservation of Sichuan quake destruction

BEIJING, China - Tourists visit a building (back) damaged by the 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan Province in Yingxiu in Wenchuan County on April 21, 2011. Some local governments are preserving buildings that were damaged in the disaster.

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Japan protests cartoon

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows a cartoon published in the International Herald Tribune on April 21, 2011. Japan's Consulate General in New York on the same day lodged a protest with New York Times Co., owner of the newspaper, for publishing the cartoon in which Snow White, carrying a newspaper with the headline ''Japan nuclear radiation,'' asks an old woman offering an apple if she comes from Japan.

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Doctor in disaster area among TIME's 100 influential people

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takeshi Kanno, a 31-year-old doctor who was on duty at a public hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, when a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the town on March 11, 2011. TIME magazine on April 21, 2011, named the doctor in its list of this year's 100 most influential people in the world. Kanno helped move patients at his hospital to the highest floor immediately after hearing the tsunami alert and over the next two days stayed with them until the last patient had been rescued.

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Crisis-hit mayor among TIME's 100 most influential people

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. TIME magazine on April 21, 2011, named the mayor, who used the video-sharing site YouTube to criticize the Japanese government's response to the nuclear accident near his city, in its list of this year's 100 most influential people in the world

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - People walk into a hotel at the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture on April 21, 2011. J Village was made into a base of work to put the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control. The facility, approximately 20 kilometers south of the plant, was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 21, 2011, shows a supply storage set up at the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture, approximately 20 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. J Village was made into a base of work to put the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control. The facility was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 21, 2011, shows an artificial turf field of the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture which was turned into a waste depository. J Village was made into a base of work to put the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control. The facility, approximately 20 kilometers south of the plant, was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 21, 2011, shows a radiation decontamination area for vehicles set up at the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture, approximately 20 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The area which used to be part of a grass field is now a coated surface site as J Village was made into a base of work to put the plant under control. The facility was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 21, 2011, shows a grass field at the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture. The field was turned into a parking area and heliport as J Village was made into a base of work to put the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control. The facility, approximately 20 kilometers south of the plant, was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - The lobby of a hotel in the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture is crowded with people who engage in work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on April 21, 2011. The facility has been used as a base for work to put the plant under control. The facility, approximately 20 kilometers south of the plant, was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Former Candies member Tanaka dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows 1970s female pop trio the Candies talking about the breakup of the group during a press conference in Tokyo in July 1977. The trio comprised Ran Ito (C), called Ran, Miki Fujimura (L), called Miki, and Yoshiko Tanaka (R), called Sue. Tanaka died April 21, 2011, of breast cancer at the age of 55.

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Former Candies member Tanaka dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows 1970s female pop trio the Candies performing during their ''Sayonara'' farewell concert in Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium on April 4, 1978. The trio comprised Ran Ito (C), called Ran, Miki Fujimura (L), called Miki, and Yoshiko Tanaka (R), called Sue. Tanaka died April 21, 2011, of breast cancer at the age of 55.

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Former Candies member Tanaka dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 1999 shows Yoshiko Tanaka, an actress and former member of 1970s female pop trio the Candies. Tanaka, nicknamed Sue in the Candies, died April 21, 2011, of breast cancer at the age of 55.

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TEPCO press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Matsumoto, acting chief of the nuclear power department of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 21, 2011, about the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Goshi Hosono, a special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, said the same day that the news conferences held separately by TEPCO, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan over the crisis will be combined from April. 25.

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Australian Prime Minister Gillard in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan head to a joint press conference after finishing their talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 21, 2011.

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Australian Prime Minister Gillard in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan hold a joint press conference after their talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 21, 2011.

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Defense Minister Kitazawa in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. Kitazawa said the biggest-ever mobilization of around 100,000 Self-Defense Forces personnel for relief efforts in tsunami-hit areas will be maintained for the time being.

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Australian Prime Minister Gillard in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (L) holds talks with visiting Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Australian Prime Minister Gillard in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (L) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at his office in Tokyo on April 21, 2011.

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Australian Prime Minister Gillard in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan smiles after wearing the helmet used by the leader of the Australian rescue team during its mission in tsunami-devastated areas in northeastern Japan, which he received as a gift from visiting Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard at his office in Tokyo on April 21, 2011.

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Buddhist deity statue in rubble

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A stone statue of the Buddhist deity called Jizo sits among debris in the quake and tsunami-hit Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011.

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Zac back in Japan for J-League restart

NARITA, Japan - Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni speaks to reporters at Narita airport east of Tokyo on April 21, 2011, after returning to Japan from Italy for the restart of the J-League. J-League matches will be played on April 23 for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan.

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PM Kan meets disaster evacuees

KORIYAMA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) visits an evacuation center accommodating people hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 21, 2011.

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Australian Prime Minister Gillard in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (L) shakes hands with visiting Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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'Mibu Kyogen' drama in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Performers shove dishes from the stage during ''Mibu Kyogen,'' a traditional comedic drama designated in Japan as a significant intangible folk cultural asset, at the Buddhist temple Mibudera in Kyoto on April 21, 2011. The popular dish-smashing routine is called ''Horaku Wari.'' The program, which started the same day, is scheduled to run through April 29.

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Ozeki Kaio visits evacuation center

OTSUCHI, Japan - Ozeki Kaio holds a boy at an evacuation center in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 21, 2011, during his visit with other sumo wrestlers to encourage people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Narita airport president in press conference

NARITA, Japan - Kosaburo Morinaka, president of Narita International Airport Corp., speaks during a press conference at the airport east of Tokyo on April 21, 2011. He said the number of foreign travelers arriving and departing the airport fell 34 percent in March from a year earlier to 494,326, as last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami, and the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant prompted tour cancellations.

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OECD Secretary General Gurria in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. Releasing its survey report on Japan, the Paris-based club of rich nations said Japan should keep pursuing its fiscal restoration goals despite the huge government spending required for reconstruction following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Cleaning tsunami-hit museum

YAMADA, Japan - Volunteer workers clean mud and debris at the Science Museum of Whale and Sea, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on April 21, 2011.

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Taiwan donates to Japan over disaster

TOKYO, Japan - Taiwan Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (L) hands a list of donations for disaster relief to Reijiro Hattori, head of the Interchange Association, Japan, in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. Taiwan is by far the biggest donor to Japan since the March 11 quake and tsunami, with the island's public and private sectors contributing more than NT$5 billion (US$171.7 million) in cash and more than 563 tons of material aid to Japan.

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'Mibu Kyogen' drama in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Performers shove dishes from the stage during ''Mibu Kyogen,'' a traditional comedic drama designated in Japan as a significant intangible folk cultural asset, at the Buddhist temple Mibudera in Kyoto on April 21, 2011. The popular dish-smashing routine is called ''Horaku Wari.'' The program, which started the same day, is scheduled to run through April 29.

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U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Japan are engaged in recovery work at Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Around 40 U.S. soldiers from Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture and 16 members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces began removing rubble at the station. The U.S. forces and the SDF will also work on the recovery of neighboring Rikuzenono Station. Both stations were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Japan are engaged in recovery work at Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Around 40 U.S. soldiers from Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture and 16 members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces began removing rubble at the station. The U.S. forces and the SDF will also work on the recovery of neighboring Rikuzenono Station. Both stations were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Emperor, empress meet with Australian PM

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko (2nd from L) receive Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (R, front) and her partner Tim Mathieson (left of Gillard) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress meet with Australian PM

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (3rd from L) speaks with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (L), while Empress Michiko (2nd from R) speaks with Gillard's partner Tim Mathieson (R) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Japan sets no-entry zone around Fukushima plant

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Resident's car waits at a checkpoint in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 21, 2011, as they evacuate an area near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to Yamagata Prefecture. Japan's central government announced the same day it will enforce a no-entry zone of a 20-kilometer radius from the plant, effective at midnight.

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Japan PM Kan in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (back, facing) receives Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (front) at the Fukushima prefectural hall in Fukushima City on April 21, 2011. Kan told Sato of the government's setting of a no-entry zone within the 20-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, prohibiting evacuees from temporarily returning home without government permission.

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Children lost in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces observe a moment of silence in front of Okawa Elementary School, of which 74 out of 108 students are dead or missing since the March 11 tsunami, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Okawa reopened for a new school year the same day in a rented space in a nearby elementary school, as its facility has been damaged by the disaster.

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Cherry blossom blooms in Miyagi

NATORI, Japan - Cherry blossoms bloom on a branch of a broken tree against the backdrop of rubble in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. The area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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DPJ gearing up for local elections

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Katsuya Okada, secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, hang a signboard for the DPJ task force on nationwide local elections in April at party headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2011. The ruling party set up the task force the same day ahead of unified local elections on April 10, when gubernatorial elections will be held in 13 prefectures, including Tokyo and Fukuoka, while mayoral and prefectural assembly elections will be held in five major cities and 44 prefectures. Other local elections taking place every four years will be held on April 24.