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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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Zambian family praises Chinese medical team after successful surgery

STORY: Zambian family praises Chinese medical team after successful surgery SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 31, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 10, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:51 LOCATION: Lusaka CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Mary Mbetwa 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MARY MBETWA, Resident in Lusaka 3. various of a Chinese doctor doing medical check-up for Mary Mbetwa 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MARY MBETWA, Resident in Lusaka 5. various of Chinese doctors training local doctors 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MARY MBETWA, Resident in Lusaka 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): MICHAEL MBETWA, Mary Mbetwa's husband 8. various of Mary Mbetwa talking with her Chinese doctor 9. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): MICHAEL MBETWA, Mary Mbetwa's husband STORYLINE: When Mary Mbetwa, a 46-year-old resident of Lusaka, the Zambian capital, started experiencing some discomfort in the right side of her nose in 2011, she did not pay much attention to it and dismissed it as one of those feelings that would go away. As the discomfort persisted, however, she decided to seek

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Libya plans to reopen all closed border crossings

STORY: Libya plans to reopen all closed border crossings DATELINE: Feb. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:29 LOCATION: Tripoli CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of forces of the Libyan Illegal Immigration Control Department STORYLINE: The Libyan Illegal Immigration Control Department on Tuesday said that Libya plans to reopen all of the closed border crossings. The announcement was made after Mohamed al-Khoja, the head of the department paid a visit to the southwestern border city of Ghadames and met with local security officials. Al-Khoja discussed with the security officials strengthening security in the area and the efforts to fight illegal activities, mainly illegal immigration, according to a statement issued by the department. Al-Khoja also visited the Libyan-Algerian border crossing, where he opened the office of the immigration control department, the statement said. Taking advantage of Libya's insecurity and chaos since the fall of late leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime in 2011, many migrants, m

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Antinuclear protests in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Protesters gather with banners and signs near the prime minister's office on Feb. 8, 2013, in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki government district, vocal throughout two-hour protests as they call for an end to reliance on nuclear power generation following the March 2011 Fukushima disaster.

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U.N. Forest Hero

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shigeatsu Hatakeyama, a Japanese environmental preservation activist in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas hardest hit by the March 11, 2011, disaster. The United Nations Forum on Forests said on Feb. 8, 2012, that Hatakeyama has been selected to win its Forest Hero award for the Asian region as a contributor to sustainable forest management.

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - An employee (R) of Tokyo Electric Power Co. indicates the level (shown by arrow) reached by the March 2011 tsunami as officials from local governments examine the inside of the building housing a heat exchange system using seawater for the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Officials from local governments examine the main steam isolation valve within the container vessel of the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Officials from local governments examine an emergency electric generator in the basement of the building housing the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The generator was inundated by the March 2011 tsunami. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows a motor for a reactor recirculation pump within the container vessel of the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Local government officials examine the bottom of the No. 4 reactor, inside its containment vessel, at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Iwate reconstruction promotion event in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - A man introduces Japanese sake produced in Iwate Prefecture at an event to promote the reconstruction of the prefecture, damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Singapore on Feb. 8, 2012. The event was organized by the Iwate prefectural government and the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Local government officials examine the bottom of the No. 4 reactor, inside its containment vessel, at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Local government officials examine a spent fuel pool in the building housing the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Local government officials examine the inside of the building housing a heat exchange system using seawater for the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Local government officials examine the main steam isolation valve (bottom) within the container vessel of the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Hawaiian-style spa in Fukushima Pref. to fully resume

IWAKI, Japan - Members of a hula dancing team at a Hawaiian-style spa leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, and other employees cheer on Jan. 30, 2012, before the full-scale reopening of the Spa Resort Hawaiians complex on Feb. 8, 2012. The facility damaged by the March 2011 earthquake has partially resumed its operation since October 2011.

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Paper cranes for missing coach

TOYAMA, Japan - Yuki Hattori, 11, looks at paper cranes, a symbol of hope and peace in Japan, created by him and other elementary and middle school children whose fencing coach Yurika Uchihira, 19, is one of the students missing in the aftermath of the Feb. 22 earthquake in New Zealand, at a gymnasium in Toyama on March 8, 2011. The students wrote letters to Uchihira and folded them into cranes, in a gesture of hope for her return.

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Making ethanol from noodles

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 8, 2011, shows experimental equipment to produce bioethanol from ''udon'' noodles, built by Chiyoda Manufacturing Co. in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture. The western Japanese prefecture is known for Sanuki udon noodles.

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Kawauchi 3rd at Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Yuki Kawauchi of Japan finishes in third place in the men's race at the Tokyo Marathon at Tokyo Big Sight on Feb. 27, 2011. Kawauchi, the highest Japanese finisher, had a time of 2 hours, 8 minutes, 37 seconds.

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Kawauchi 3rd at Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Yuki Kawauchi of Japan finishes in third place in the men's race at the Tokyo Marathon at Tokyo Big Sight on Feb. 27, 2011. Kawauchi, the highest Japanese finisher, had a time of 2 hours, 8 minutes, 37 seconds.

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U.S. backs Toyota in acceleration problems

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood speaks at a press conference on Feb. 8, 2011, at the U.S. Transportation Department in Washington. The department said its joint 10-month investigation with NASA found that there was no electronics-based cause for unintended high-speed acceleration in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, supporting the Japanese automaker's position.

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Posing with Prince William

LONDON, Britain - American artist Jennifer Rubell poses with her waxwork Prince William of Britain, on Feb. 8, 2011, in London's Stephen Friedman Gallery. The wax figure, clad in a navy suit resembling the one worn by the prince on the day he announced his engagement along with his fiance Kate Middleton last November, comes with a replica of the engagement ring given to Middleton, which visitors can wear when taking photos with it.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Antigovernment protesters gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 8, 2011.

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ASEAN mediates Thai-Cambodian border dispute

BANGKOK, Thailand - Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (R) and Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya speak to reporters after their meeting in Bangkok on Feb. 8, 2011. Natalegawa visited Thailand after Cambodia in an effort to mediate in a border dispute between the two countries. Indonesia currently chairs the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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

SEOUL, South Korea - Robert King (L), a U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, and Wi Sung Lac (R), the South's chief nuclear envoy to the stalled six-party talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons program, meet in Seoul on Feb. 8, 2011.

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Watami chairman mulls Tokyo gubernatorial race run

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Miki Watanabe, chairman of restaurant chain operator Watami Co., who was reported on Feb. 8, 2011 to be mulling running in the Tokyo gubernatorial race in April. Watanabe has reportedly asked for support from Your Party.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Some antigovernment protesters pray in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 8, 2011.

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Protest in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Antigovernment protesters pray in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 8, 2011.

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Toyota lifts earnings projections

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Senior Managing Director Takahiko Ijichi (R) and Managing Officer Shigeru Hayakawa attend a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2011. The automaker revised upward its group earnings forecasts for the current business year to March 2011 on increasing sales in emerging markets as well as cost-cutting efforts.

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Myanmar refugee camp in Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Photo shows Camp Mera in northwestern Thailand for refugees from Myanmar on Feb. 8, 2011. A Japanese government mission plans to begin interviewing refugees who want to go to Japan from the next day.

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Gigantic billboard for chocolate bar contends for world record

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 8, 2011, shows a big billboard -- about 166 meters in width and 28 m in height -- in the form of a chocolate bar in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Confectionery maker Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd. set up the billboard along the outer surface of its factory ahead of Valentine's Day on Feb. 14 when it is customary in Japan for women to give chocolates to men. The company has applied to Guinness World Records for the billboard to be registered as the world's biggest advertising board made of plastic.

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Snow shoveling by volunteers

YONAGO, Japan - Volunteer workers clear away snow at an elderly person's house in the town of Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, in western Japan, on Feb. 8, 2011. The area has been hit by heavy snow this winter.

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2 Koreas lay groundwork for high-level military talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Three representatives of the South Korean military on Feb. 8, 2011, stand in front of a Unification Ministry building in Seoul ahead of their departure for the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjeom to discuss with their North Korean counterparts details for a proposed meeting of high-level defense officials between South and North Korea. The colonel-level talks are the first inter-Korean meeting since the North's deadly artillery attack on a South Korean border island in November 2010.

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Ex-exec of hotel operator held over fraud

ATAMI, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 8, 2011, shows Atami Okamoto Hotel in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture. A former chairman of the hotel operator, Okamoto Hotel Systems, and two others were arrested the previous day on suspicion of defrauding elderly investors of their deposits by promising high returns on their resort club membership.

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Bird flu in Oita Pref.

OITA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the burial of culled chickens in the city of Oita on Feb. 3, 2011. The Oita prefectural government culled about 8,100 chickens at a poultry farm in the city after it was hit by bird flu.

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Nintendo 3DS unveiled

CHIBA, Japan - Children play with Nintendo 3DS devices during an event held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Jan. 8, 2011. Nintendo Co. plans to begin its sales of the 3-D gaming device on Feb. 26 at the price of 25,000 yen in Japan.

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Court finds architect guilty over ramp collapse in March 2011 quake

Architect Naoki Takagi, 69, holds a press conference in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Feb. 8, 2016, after the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court sentenced him to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, for professional negligence related to the collapse of a parking lot ramp in the massive March 11, 2011, earthquake that shook eastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese tsunami-hit regions collecting donations for quake-hit Taiwan

A woman drops a coin Feb. 8, 2016, into a box set up by the city of Sendai at the city hall to collect donations for Taiwan following a magnitude 6.4 earthquake on the island. Municipalities in northeastern Japan, devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, are calling for donations for Taiwan, which was a generous donor to the regions in the wake of the disaster five years earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant

Photo taken in Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2021, shows a skeletal building housing the No. 3 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami.

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows first-grade elementary school student Ayaka Sato in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on June 8, 2011 (L) with her "randoseru" schoolbag that was found after being washed away by a massive tsunami three months earlier, and Ayaka six years later on Feb. 15, 2017, who will be graduating in March. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows Sayaka Sugawara (C) and her daughters Sara (R) and Sena, sitting on what was left of their family-run inn in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan on June 8, 2011 (top), after it was washed away by a massive tsunami three months earlier, and six years later on Feb. 18, 2017, as they stand in front of their rebuilt inn as it marked five years of operation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows Kazue Takahashi and her son Kosei at a gymnasium serving as a shelter in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on June 8, 2011 (L) after the area was devastated by a tsunami, and at the same gymnasium on Feb. 17, 2017 (R), as the two attend a dance class. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. Forest Hero

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shigeatsu Hatakeyama, a Japanese environmental preservation activist in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas hardest hit by the March 11, 2011, disaster. The United Nations Forum on Forests said on Feb. 8, 2012, that Hatakeyama has been selected to win its Forest Hero award for the Asian region as a contributor to sustainable forest management. (Kyodo)

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Paper cranes for missing coach

TOYAMA, Japan - Yuki Hattori, 11, looks at paper cranes, a symbol of hope and peace in Japan, created by him and other elementary and middle school children whose fencing coach Yurika Uchihira, 19, is one of the students missing in the aftermath of the Feb. 22 earthquake in New Zealand, at a gymnasium in Toyama on March 8, 2011. The students wrote letters to Uchihira and folded them into cranes, in a gesture of hope for her return. (Kyodo)

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Protest in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Antigovernment protesters pray in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 8, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Watami chairman mulls Tokyo gubernatorial race run

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Miki Watanabe, chairman of restaurant chain operator Watami Co., who was reported on Feb. 8, 2011 to be mulling running in the Tokyo gubernatorial race in April. Watanabe has reportedly asked for support from Your Party. (Kyodo)

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Making ethanol from noodles

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 8, 2011, shows experimental equipment to produce bioethanol from ''udon'' noodles, built by Chiyoda Manufacturing Co. in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture. The western Japanese prefecture is known for Sanuki udon noodles. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - An employee (R) of Tokyo Electric Power Co. indicates the level (shown by arrow) reached by the March 2011 tsunami as officials from local governments examine the inside of the building housing a heat exchange system using seawater for the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Local government officials examine a spent fuel pool in the building housing the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Officials from local governments examine the main steam isolation valve within the container vessel of the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 8, 2012. The plant south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was shown to reporters for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)