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UK: Storm Bert Triggers Severe Flooding Across England And Wales

Storm Bert struck England and Wales on Saturday, November 23, bringing heavy rain, power outages, and traffic disruptions, while triggering severe flooding in multiple regions. Over 100 flood warnings were issued across the UK.

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Nikkei at lowest year-end level in 29 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard in the Yaesu district in central Tokyo shows the closing level of the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average on Dec. 30, 2011, the year's last trading day. Although the index gained -- up 56.46 points, or 0.67 percent -- from the previous day to finish at 8,455.35, it lost about 17 percent during the year to mark the lowest year-end closing level since 1982.

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Fish shop owner in tsunami-hit town fillets salmon

TOKYO, Japan - Shoetsu Mukushi, owner of a family-run seafood-processing firm, cuts a lightly salted salmon into fillets in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2014. The town and other parts of the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku were ravaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami in 2011 but he revived the business a month after the disaster.

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Temple holds rite for unclaimed spirit tablets

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - A Buddhist priest holds a memorial service for some 400 spirit tablets unclaimed after the 2011 tsunami at the Seitai-ji temple in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 8, 2014. The temple is keeping the tablets recovered from debris following the disaster.

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Baghdad after Iraq War

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Only the base of a statue of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein remains in a square in central Baghdad on Dec. 8, 2011, after the statue was pulled down in a famous incident in 2003.

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Japanese ski jumper Takanashi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 3, 2011, shows Japanese teenage ski jumper Sara Takanashi. Takanashi, 15, placed second in a World Cup event on Jan. 8, 2012, in Hinterzarten, Germany, becoming the first Japanese female jumper to stand on the podium in the three events held so far on the inaugural World Cup ski jumping circuit.

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Firebombs tossed at Japan Embassy in Seoul

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Dec. 26, 2011, shows the charred lower part of a gate at the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. A man arrested after tossing firebombs at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Jan. 8, 2012, said he set a fire to the shrine gate in Tokyo, but that claim is yet to be confirmed.

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Police officer in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A police officer holds Iraq's national flag in Baghdad on Dec. 8, 2011. U.S. forces in Iraq held a ceremony in Baghdad on Dec. 15, 2011, to officially end their military mission in Iraq.

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Traffic jam in Beijing

BEIJING, China - A road in Beijing is clogged with cars on Dec. 8, 2011. A sharp rise in the number of cars is exacerbating traffic jams in the Chinese capital.

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Murakami, youngest chief of company listed on Tokyo bourse

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, shows Taichi Murakami, president of Internet services company Livesense Inc., at the company in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. On Dec. 7, Murakami became the youngest president of a company to debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, aged 25 years and 1 month.

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White tiger cubs at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, shows two white tiger cubs, male(L) and female, which were born on Nov. 18, 2011, at the Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan. The zoo plans to show them to the public from around February.

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White tiger cubs at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, shows a male white tiger cub, one of the two surviving felines that were born on Nov. 18, 2011, at the Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan. The zoo plans to show them to the public from around February. Two other cubs were born the same day but died shortly afterward.

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Site of 1996-1997 hostage crisis in Peru

LIMA, Peru - Photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, shows the site of the former residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, the site of a four-month hostage crisis in 1996-1997 that claimed the lives of 17 people. A condominium is planned to be built on the site, Japanese embassy sources said Dec. 12, 2011.

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Sea Shepherd's Brigitte Bardot at Australian port

PERTH, Australia - The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Brigitte Bardot berths at a port in the suburbs of Perth, western Australia, on Dec. 8, 2011. The vessel is believed to have been preparing for obstructing Japan's research whaling activities.

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Shoji at Junior Grand Prix Final

QUEBEC CITY, Canada - Japan's Risa Shoji performs the women's short program routine which secured her fourth place at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Quebec City, Canada, on Dec. 8, 2011.

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Shoji at Junior Grand Prix Final

QUEBEC CITY, Canada - Japan's Risa Shoji responds to the crowd after performing in the women's short program at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Quebec City, Canada, on Dec. 8, 2011. The 15-year-old placed fourth after the program.

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Asada withdraws from Grand Prix Final

QUEBEC CITY, Canada - Ottavio Cinquanta, president of the International Skating Union, speaks about Mao Asada's withdrawal from the Grand Prix Final during a press conference in Quebec City, Canada, on Dec. 8, 2011. The two-time world champion withdrew from the prestigious event beginning there the following day after her mother was taken ill in Japan.

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Asada withdraws from Grand Prix Final

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese figure skater Mao Asada. The two-time world champion on Dec. 8, 2011, withdrew from the Grand Prix Final beginning in Quebec, Canada, the following day to be with her ill mother.

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Mt. Sakurajima

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in October 2011 shows Mt. Sakurajima, an active volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The volcano explosively erupted late Dec. 8, 2011, for the 897th time this year, breaking its annual record for the third consecutive year, according to the local observatory.

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Nobel laureate Tanaka in Fukushima probe panel

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel chemistry laureate Koichi Tanaka speaks in the Diet in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2011, after assuming a post as a member of a panel probing the causes of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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U.S. envoy on N. Korea in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - The new U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, Glyn Davies (L), and South Korean foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan shake hands before their meeting in Seoul on Dec. 8, 2011.

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SDF member decontaminates Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A member of Japan's Self-Defense Forces removes soil near the Tomioka town hall in Fukushima Prefecture on Dec. 8, 2011. SDF members have been mobilized to help decontaminate areas tainted with radioactive substances emitted by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Film director Tomita

KOFU, Japan - Japanese film director Katsuya Tomita holds a movie award in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2011. Tomita won the grand prize at the 33rd Festival of Three Continents in Nantes, France, in late November for his film ''Saudade,'' which is set in Kofu.

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Costa Rican president in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda shake hands after their press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2011.

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Costa Rican President Chinchilla in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla (2nd from R in front) and Japanese Emperor Akihito (front R) chat during a luncheon at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Composer Miki dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2001 shows music composer Minoru Miki, who died at a western Tokyo hospital on Dec. 8, 2011, at the age of 81.

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'Liar Tofu' event in Tottori

YONAGO, Japan - In front of a huge block of tofu, a woman helps her son insert a strip of paper, on which he has confessed the lies he told in 2011, into a box during the ''Liar Tofu'' event held in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture on Dec. 8, 2011. According to legend in this western Japanese prefecture, if you eat tofu on Dec. 8, all the lies you have told since the beginning of the year will go away.

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U.S. envoy Davies in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Glyn Davies (R), the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, and Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief envoy to the six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization, attend a press conference at the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul after holding talks there on Dec. 8, 2011.

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Konishiki visits quake-hit areas as Santa Claus

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Children look happy after receiving presents from Konishiki (C back row), a Hawaiian-born sumo wrestler-turned-TV personality, dressed up as Santa Claus, in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2011. Konishiki is touring the Tohoku region, which was severely hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, to give presents to local children.

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Stranded train recovered in tsunami-hit Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - A train car is lifted by crane in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, on Dec. 8, 2011, to be loaded onto a trailer. East Japan Railway Co. began work the same day to recover a four-car train, which has been stranded there for nearly nine months since the March earthquake and tsunami, which heavily damaged the rail track and other facilities of the JR Senseki Line connecting Sendai with Ishinomaki.

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U.S. envoy Davies in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Glyn Davies, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, is pictured ahead of his talks with Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief envoy to the six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization, at the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul on Dec. 8, 2011.

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U.S. envoy Davies in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Glyn Davies (L), the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, shakes hands with Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's chief envoy to the six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization, ahead of their talks at the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul on Dec. 8, 2011.

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Mitsubishi's minicar-class commercial EV

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Osamu Masuko stands next to the MINICAB-MiEV, a minicar-class commercial electric vehicle, in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2011. The automaker will launch the vehicle in Japan on Dec. 8 as the second product in its next-generation EV lineup.

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Teenage film director

TOKYO, Japan - Ryugo Nakamura, a 14-year-old student in Okinawa, poses for a photo at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 23, 2010. His film ''Yagi no Boken'' (adventure of a goat) will be shown at theaters across Japan beginning with three cinemas in Tokyo and Yokohama from Jan. 8, 2011.

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Sojitz begins shipment of farmed bluefin tuna

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 8, 2010, in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture, shows Sojitz Tuna Farm Takashima Co.'s first shipment of farmed bluefin tuna ahead of the high-demand yearend and new-year season. Major trading house Sojitz Corp., which wholly owns Sojitz tuna farm, is the first Japanese trading company to enter into tuna farming, while an international commission decided to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011.

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Sojitz begins shipment of farmed bluefin tuna

SASEBO, Japan - People involved with a tuna farming project pose for photos during a ceremony to commemorate Sojitz Tuna Farm Takashima Co.'s first shipment of farmed bluefin tuna on Dec. 8, 2010, in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture. Major trading house Sojitz Corp., which wholly owns Sojitz tuna farm, is the first Japanese trading company to enter into tuna farming, while an international commission decided to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011.

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Japanese city commemorates Pearl Harbor victims with fireworks

Fireworks resembling white chrysanthemum flowers, which are often presented at memorial services in Japan to honor the dead, explode over Japan's Nagaoka city on Dec. 8, 2015, the 74th anniversary of Japan's Pearl Harbor attack, to commemorate the victims of the air raids and other victims of World War II. Nagaoka, the hometown of Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the 1941 attack in Hawaii, was heavily damaged in air raids by the United States in August 1945. Overcoming the painful pasts, Nagaoka and Honolulu became sister cities, and the Japanese city famous for its fireworks has been conducting a memorial firework event every Dec. 8 since 2011. Nagaoka's fireworks were also displayed over Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Aug. 15, 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of war in the Pacific. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stranded Russian cargo vessel removed

Photo taken Dec. 8, 2015, in the northeastern Japan city of Ofunato shows the 683-ton Russian cargo ship Khrizolitovyy being towed away. The vessel, which had been stranded in the port since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, will be dismantled as its Russian owner has not been in contact. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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IT firm owner opens diner in disaster-hit city for returning evacuees

Tomoyuki Wada (R), president of a computer service company, asks patrons for feedback on Dec. 8, 2014, at a diner he opened the same day in the Odaka district of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in support of start-ups in the area once evacuated due to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster and for residents planning to move back. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Northeastern Japan travel festival opens in Taipei

Organizers pose for the media at the opening ceremony of the Daisuki Tohoku promotional event in Taipei on Dec. 8, 2017. The three-day event opened the same day to promote tourism in six northeastern Japan prefectures hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Northeastern Japan travel festival opens in Taipei

Mai Kato (C), head of the Tsuchiyu Onsen Tourism Association in Fukushima, and Maki Watanabe (far R), a member of the Happy Fukushima Troupe, and other troupe members pose for a photo at a promotional event in Taipei on Dec. 8, 2017. The three-day event opened the same day to promote tourism in six northeastern Japan prefectures hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Northeastern Japan travel festival opens in Taipei

Toshikazu Kangyuu from Iwate Prefecture shreds kombu (dried kelp) at a promotional event in Taipei on Dec. 8, 2017. The three-day event opened the same day to promote tourism in six northeastern Japan prefectures hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Diner opens in nuclear disaster-hit city for returning evacuees

A diner called "Odaka no Hirugohan" (Lunch at Odaka) opens in the Odaka district of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 8, 2015, in support of start-ups in the area once evacuated due to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster and for residents planning to move back. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yamanashi gov't to farm newly discovered endangered salmon specie

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - Kiyoshi Mitsui, director of the Yamanashi Prefectural Fisheries Technology Center, explains the aquaculture project for Kunimasu, an endangered deepwater salmon species, in a recent interview with Kyodo News at the center in Kai, Yamanashi Prefecture. He said one of the project's key objectives is to conserve the species. The photo was taken on Dec. 8, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Teenage film director

TOKYO, Japan - Ryugo Nakamura, a 14-year-old student in Okinawa, poses for a photo at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 23, 2010. His film ''Yagi no Boken'' (adventure of a goat) will be shown at theaters across Japan beginning with three cinemas in Tokyo and Yokohama from Jan. 8, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Fish shop owner in tsunami-hit town fillets salmon

TOKYO, Japan - Shoetsu Mukushi, owner of a family-run seafood-processing firm, cuts a lightly salted salmon into fillets in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2014. The town and other parts of the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku were ravaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami in 2011 but he revived the business a month after the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Temple holds rite for unclaimed spirit tablets

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - A Buddhist priest holds a memorial service for some 400 spirit tablets unclaimed after the 2011 tsunami at the Seitai-ji temple in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 8, 2014. The temple is keeping the tablets recovered from debris following the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Japanese ski jumper Takanashi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 3, 2011, shows Japanese teenage ski jumper Sara Takanashi. Takanashi, 15, placed second in a World Cup event on Jan. 8, 2012, in Hinterzarten, Germany, becoming the first Japanese female jumper to stand on the podium in the three events held so far on the inaugural World Cup ski jumping circuit. (Kyodo)

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Firebombs tossed at Japan Embassy in Seoul

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Dec. 26, 2011, shows the charred lower part of a gate at the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. A man arrested after tossing firebombs at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Jan. 8, 2012, said he set a fire to the shrine gate in Tokyo, but that claim is yet to be confirmed. (Kyodo)

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Baghdad after Iraq War

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Only the base of a statue of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein remains in a square in central Baghdad on Dec. 8, 2011, after the statue was pulled down in a famous incident in 2003. (Kyodo)