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China: Protective Mother Seal Guards Her Baby in Guangdong

On June 21, 2025, in Guangdong Province, a gray mother seal lay beside her white-furred pup, warning nearby seals not to approach. When others came too close, she bared her teeth defensively, then gently nuzzled her baby.

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Illustration - Pays-Basque

FRANCE. PYRENEES-ATLANTIQUES (64) BASQUE COUTRY. THE BASQUE PELOTE IS INHERITED FROM THE OLD GAME OF JEU DE PAUME. IT CAN BE PLAYED WITH BARED HAND, PIECE OF WOOD (PALA) OR WICKER GLOVES (CHISTERA) . EVERY SINGLE BASQUE VILLAGE, LIKE HERE AT SARE, HAS ITS OWN FRONTON. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Designer's image of New Tokyo Tower bared

TOKYO, Japan - Sculptor Kiichi Sumikawa (L) explains to Kinya Miyasugi, president of New Tokyo Tower Co., about his design of the tower on Nov. 24. The radio and TV transmitter tower to be built by Japan Broadcasting Corp. and five commercial TV broadcasters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward by 2010 will stand 600 meters high, higher than the world's current tallest tower, the 553-meter CN Tower in Canada's Toronto.

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Toshiba to focus investment on semiconductors: President Nishida

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 9. He bared a medium-range business plan in which Toshiba will invest 550 billion yen on semiconductor operations, half of the company's total capital investment in three years through fiscal 2007.

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Misawa Homes to issue 100 bil. yen in shares

TOKYO, Japan - Misawa Homes Holdings Inc. President Chiyoji Misawa speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 30. He bared a new medium-term management plan including the sale of 100 billion yen worth of new preferred shares.

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JT to cut 4,000 jobs, close 1-3rd of factories

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) President Katsuhiko Honda speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 6. He bared a medium-term management plan, in which the company will solicit applications for early retirement from about 4,000 employees and close about a third of its tobacco-manufacturing plants.

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China aims for 4% growth in peasant incomes

BEIJING, China - Chinese State Development Planning Commission Minister Zeng Peiyan bared the country's economic and social development plan for 2002 at the National People's Congress (NPC) on March 6. He said China will try to increase the income of its peasants by 4% this year.

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LEBANON-NAHR AL-BARED CAMP-CAPSIZED BOAT-VICTIM-FUNERAL

(220926) -- BEIRUT, Sept. 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Palestinians pray for a man, one of the victims of the migrant boat that sank off the Syrian shore last Thursday, during a funeral at the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, Sept. 25, 2022. (Photo by Khaled Habashiti/Xinhua)

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China aims for 4% growth in peasant incomes

BEIJING, China - Chinese State Development Planning Commission Minister Zeng Peiyan bared the country's economic and social development plan for 2002 at the National People's Congress (NPC) on March 6. He said China will try to increase the income of its peasants by 4% this year.

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Sydney gold medalist judoka Takimoto to debut in PRIDE

TOKYO, Japan - Sydney Olympics gold medalist Makoto Takimoto (in file photo) said on Dec. 7 he will join the ranks of combatants in the Japanese mixed martial arts of PRIDE. Takimoto, who won gold in the 81-kilogram weight category in Sydney in 2000, is the second Japanese Olympic gold medalist judoka to enter the no-holds bared sport after 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion Hidehiko Yoshida, who won gold at 78 kg. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to focus investment on semiconductors: President Nishida

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 9. He bared a medium-range business plan in which Toshiba will invest 550 billion yen on semiconductor operations, half of the company's total capital investment in three years through fiscal 2007. (Kyodo)

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Designer's image of New Tokyo Tower bared

TOKYO, Japan - Sculptor Kiichi Sumikawa (L) explains to Kinya Miyasugi, president of New Tokyo Tower Co., about his design of the tower on Nov. 24. The radio and TV transmitter tower to be built by Japan Broadcasting Corp. and five commercial TV broadcasters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward by 2010 will stand 600 meters high, higher than the world's current tallest tower, the 553-meter CN Tower in Canada's Toronto. (Kyodo)

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Designer's image of New Tokyo Tower bared

TOKYO, Japan - This is an artist's image of a completed New Tokyo Tower unveiled at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 24. The radio and TV transmitter tower to be built by Japan Broadcasting Corp. and five commercial TV broadcasters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward by 2010 will stand 600 meters high, higher than the world's current tallest tower, the 553-meter CN Tower in Canada's Toronto. (Kyodo)

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Killer bared his soul on website prior to stabbings in Akihabara

TOKYO, Japan - Tomohiro Kato (R), the suspect in the June 8 stabbing spree in Akihabara, looks down as he leaves Manseibashi Police Station in Tokyo to be taken to prosecutors. Kato set up a cellphone website on which he posted threats prior to fatally stabbing seven people. (Kyodo)

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Misawa Homes to issue 100 bil. yen in shares

TOKYO, Japan - Misawa Homes Holdings Inc. President Chiyoji Misawa speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 30. He bared a new medium-term management plan including the sale of 100 billion yen worth of new preferred shares. (Kyodo)

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JT to cut 4,000 jobs, close 1-3rd of factories

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) President Katsuhiko Honda speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 6. He bared a medium-term management plan, in which the company will solicit applications for early retirement from about 4,000 employees and close about a third of its tobacco-manufacturing plants. (Kyodo)