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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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Hakodate city suit over MOX reactor

TOKYO, Japan - A June 2013 photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows the Oma nuclear power plant (bottom) under construction in Aomori Prefecture. At top is the city of Hakodate, Hokkaido, across the Tsugaru Strait. The city of Hakodate filed a lawsuit on April 3, 2014, against the Japanese state government and Electric Power Development Co. seeking suspension of the construction of a plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel reactor at the Oma plant due to safety concerns.

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Japanese-American dancer Yuriko Kikuchi

NEW YORK, United States - Yuriko Kikuchi, 93, a Japanese-American modern dance pioneer, is pictured at her Manhattan apartment on April 3, 2013. She emphasized the importance of imagination in her life during an interview with Kyodo News.

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Photographer sees Japan from inside of prisons

TOKYO, Japan - Photographer Hitomi Toyama gives an interview with Kyodo News, showing her recently published book of photos of life at prisons across Japan, on April 3, 2013 in Tokyo. The photo book titled "Nippon no Keimusho 30" (30 Japanese prisons) was published in March.

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Grandma who knows history of Kompira Kabuki

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Takuko Yamamoto shows confetti she made for parades ahead of spring Kabuki performances in Kotohira, Kagawa Prefecture, at her home in the town on April 3, 2013. She has helped liven up performances known as "Shikoku Kompira Kabuki Oshibai" at Kanamaruza, or Kyu Kompira Oshibai (Old Kompira Grand Theater), for nearly 30 years by making boxes of confetti to be thrown over the heads of performers during pre-opening parades every year.

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Egypt seeks donations from tourists for museum construction

CAIRO, Egypt - Mohamed Ibrahim Ali Sayed (L), Egyptian minister for antiquities, and Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou speak with reporters at the construction site of the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Great Pyramid of Giza on April 3, 2013. The Egyptian government said it will solicit a $1 per night donation from foreign tourists at hotels in a campaign to gather money for underfunded construction of the new museum.

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Paris enlists sheep to eradicate weeds

PARIS, France - Sheep are released in a field managed by the Paris city government in the northeastern part of the city on April 3, 2013, to eradicate weeds without the use of herbicide and weeding machines.

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Egypt seeks donations from tourists for museum construction

CAIRO, Egypt - Photo shows the construction site of the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Great Pyramid of Giza on April 3, 2013. A plan of the museum is seen in the foreground. The Egyptian government said the same day it will solicit a $1 per night donation from foreign tourists at hotels in a campaign to gather money for underfunded construction of the new museum.

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Mandela statue

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Photo shows a statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela in Sandton, near Johannesburg on April 3, 2013.

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N. Korea bans S. Koreans from joint industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - A South Korean woman answers reporters' questions at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on April 3, 2013, after returning from the jointly operated industrial complex at the North's border town of Kaesong. North Korea has banned South Korean workers from entering the industrial complex and is only allowing South Korean workers to leave Kaesong to return home, South Korea's Unification Ministry said the same day.

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Paris enlists sheep to eradicate weeds

PARIS, France - Sheep graze in a field managed by the Paris city government in the northeastern part of the city on April 3, 2013. The sheep have been enlisted to eradicate weeds without the use of herbicide and weeding machines.

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Conductor Seiji Ozawa

TOKYO, Japan - Conductor Seiji Ozawa holds a press conference in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on April 3, 2013. Ozawa said he will take to the podium for two concerts in late July given by a chamber music ensemble of young string players from Asia.

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JSA forgoes appeal, Sokokurai to return in July

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo wrestler Sokokurai (L) shakes hands with his stablemaster Arashio in Tokyo on April 3, 2013, after the Japan Sumo Association decided not to appeal a court ruling that orders the body to reinstate Sokokurai, whom the body had expelled in 2011 over match fixing. Sokokurai will make his comeback at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July as a No. 15 maegashira.

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Experts' meeting on N. Korean abduction issue

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) speaks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 3, 2013, during a meeting with a group of experts on the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals.

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N. Korea bans S. Koreans from joint industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Photo shows South Korean vehicles at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on April 3, 2013, which have returned from the jointly operated industrial complex at the North's border town of Kaesong. North Korea has banned South Korean workers from entering the industrial complex and is only allowing South Korean workers to leave Kaesong to return home, South Korea's Unification Ministry said the same day.

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JSA forgoes appeal, Sokokurai to return in July

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo wrestler Sokokurai holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 3, 2013, after the Japan Sumo Association decided not to appeal a court ruling that orders the body to reinstate Sokokurai, whom the body had expelled in 2011 over match fixing. Sokokurai will make his comeback at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July as a No. 15 maegashira.

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Caution over bird flu in China

NARITA, Japan - An official of the quarantine station at Narita airport near Tokyo displays a poster on April 3, 2013, warning people arriving from China about recent H7N9 avian influenza infections in that country.

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Experts' meeting on N. Korean abduction issue

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front) speaks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 3, 2013, during a meeting with a group of experts on the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals. To the left is Teruaki Masumoto, secretary general of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea.

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Kinako and her daughters

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Labrador retriever Kinako (C) in a police uniform-like costume poses with her daughters Komugi (R) and Mirin at the Kagawa prefectural police headquarters in the city of Takamatsu on April 3, 2013. Kinako was appointed with her daughters as a special member of the prefectural police's education team. She worked as a police dog for two years and three months until the end of March 2013, having previously failed the test six years running.

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Japan official in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (L) meets with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima in Okinawa's prefectural capital of Naha on April 3, 2013. The central government is seeking local support for its plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the island while offering aid for Okinawa's economic development.

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Japan official in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (L) meets with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima in Okinawa's prefectural capital of Naha on April 3, 2013. The central government is seeking local support for its plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the island while offering aid for Okinawa's economic development.

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Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

OFUNATO, Japan - Residents celebrate as a special train arrives at Yoshihama Station in Iwate Prefecture on the Minami Riasu Line on April 3, 2013, as the Sanriku Railway Co. line crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster partially reopened for service. New carriages were bought with the help of the Kuwaiti government.

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Japan official in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (R) and Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima shake hands before their meeting in Okinawa's prefectural capital of Naha on April 3, 2013. The central government is local support for its plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the island while offering aid for Okinawa's economic development.

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4-kg police dog

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Mieko Shinkubo holds her 3-year-old female miniature dachshund Becky at the Kumamoto prefectural police headquarters in the city of Kumamoto on April 3, 2013. Becky, about 40 centimeters long and weighing about 4 kilograms, was granted a certificate the same day to work as a police dog.

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Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

OFUNATO, Japan - A special train departs Sakari Station in Iwate Prefecture on the Minami Riasu Line on April 3, 2013, as the Sanriku Railway Co. line crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster partially reopened for service. New carriages were bought with the help of the Kuwaiti government.

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N. Korea bans S. Koreans from joint industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Trucks turn around in Paju, South Korea, on April 3, 2013, after North Korea banned South Korean workers from entering the jointly operated industrial complex at the North's border town of Kaesong.

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Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

OFUNATO, Japan - Residents see a special train off from Sakari Station in Iwate Prefecture on the Minami Riasu Line on April 3, 2013, as the Sanriku Railway Co. line crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster partially reopened for service. New carriages were bought with the help of the Kuwaiti government.

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2 years after quake

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2013.

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Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2008 shows Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro (front) and his son, Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo, walking in a procession on the approach to Naritasan Shinsho Temple to mark the 1070th anniversary of its foundation in Narita, Chiba Prefecture. Danjuro died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 3, 2013. He was 66.