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US: Brush Fire Erupts In Del Mar Heights, San Diego 3

A brush fire erupted in the Del Mar Heights neighborhood in San Diego on Tuesday morning, June 25. The fire near Mira Montana Drive off Del Mar Heights Road prompted the mandatory evacuation of 2,500 residents from the area. The fire's forward progress was stopped by about 5:30 p.m. and all evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted by 7:20 p.m.

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui (R) talks with his colleague at a branch office of Vivolight in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 19, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012, he gave u

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui (R) talks with his partner Dr. Mi Lei in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 19, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012, he gave up his doctoral studies

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CHINA-BEIJING-OCT TECHNOLOGY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CN)

(240220) -- BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Rui attends a video conference with experts at a branch office of Vivolight in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 19, 2024. On Feb. 18, the first working day after China's Spring Festival holiday, Zhu Rui, founder of medical device company Vivolight, came to the catheter operating room of Beijing Anzhen Hospital to learn about the use of OCT equipment produced by his company. OCT, or optical coherence tomography technology, allows doctors to examine patients and display real-time three-dimensional images where the catheter passes, providing guide for surgery. Since graduating from Tsinghua University in 2006, Zhu has been engaged in OCT related research and product development. His role has changed from a student, a researcher to an entrepreneur. While studying in Beijing, Zhu built an OCT system for ophthalmology. While studying for his PhD in Hong Kong, he realized the potential value of OCT technology in cardiovascular surgery. In 2012

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CHINA-GUANGXI-TEENAGERS-HOMETOWN-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230122) -- DAHUA, Jan. 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Meng Xuantai (1st L) and Meng Xuanren (2nd L) are on their way to school in Nongding Village of Bansheng Town, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sept. 3, 2012. Meng Xuanren and his younger brother Meng Xuantai were nicknamed "ladder teenagers" because they had to climb mountains and hanging ladders to get to school as children. They've all grown up and achieved their goals now. Meng Xuanren, 22, is a sophomore at the Liaoning Provincial College of Communications, and Xuantai, 19, works at an auto repair factory in south China's Guangdong Province after graduating from a vocational school. The brothers returned to Nongding Village in Bansheng Town for a family reunion during the Spring Festival. They have seen the transformation of transportation infrastructure, school facilities, and village housing in their hometown over the last decade. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-TEENAGERS-HOMETOWN-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230122) -- DAHUA, Jan. 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Meng Xuantai studies in a classroom at Nongyong primary school in Bansheng Town of Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Dec. 26, 2012. Meng Xuanren and his younger brother Meng Xuantai were nicknamed "ladder teenagers" because they had to climb mountains and hanging ladders to get to school as children. They've all grown up and achieved their goals now. Meng Xuanren, 22, is a sophomore at the Liaoning Provincial College of Communications, and Xuantai, 19, works at an auto repair factory in south China's Guangdong Province after graduating from a vocational school. The brothers returned to Nongding Village in Bansheng Town for a family reunion during the Spring Festival. They have seen the transformation of transportation infrastructure, school facilities, and village housing in their hometown over the last decade. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-TEENAGERS-HOMETOWN-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230122) -- DAHUA, Jan. 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Meng Xuantai, Meng Xuanren and their schoolmates are pictured on their way home after school in Nongding Village of Bansheng Town, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 4, 2012. Meng Xuanren and his younger brother Meng Xuantai were nicknamed "ladder teenagers" because they had to climb mountains and hanging ladders to get to school as children. They've all grown up and achieved their goals now. Meng Xuanren, 22, is a sophomore at the Liaoning Provincial College of Communications, and Xuantai, 19, works at an auto repair factory in south China's Guangdong Province after graduating from a vocational school. The brothers returned to Nongding Village in Bansheng Town for a family reunion during the Spring Festival. They have seen the transformation of transportation infrastructure, school facilities, and village housing in their hometown over the last decade. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-TEENAGERS-HOMETOWN-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230122) -- DAHUA, Jan. 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Meng Xuantai (1st L) and Meng Xuanren (2nd L) are seen at their dormitory at Nongyong primary school in Bansheng Town of Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Dec. 26, 2012. Meng Xuanren and his younger brother Meng Xuantai were nicknamed "ladder teenagers" because they had to climb mountains and hanging ladders to get to school as children. They've all grown up and achieved their goals now. Meng Xuanren, 22, is a sophomore at the Liaoning Provincial College of Communications, and Xuantai, 19, works at an auto repair factory in south China's Guangdong Province after graduating from a vocational school. The brothers returned to Nongding Village in Bansheng Town for a family reunion during the Spring Festival. They have seen the transformation of transportation infrastructure, school facilities, and village housing in their hometown over the last decade. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-TEENAGERS-HOMETOWN-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230122) -- DAHUA, Jan. 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Meng Xuantai (3rd from top) climbs a hanging ladder to go to school in Nongding Village of Bansheng Town, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sept. 3, 2012. Meng Xuanren and his younger brother Meng Xuantai were nicknamed "ladder teenagers" because they had to climb mountains and hanging ladders to get to school as children. They've all grown up and achieved their goals now. Meng Xuanren, 22, is a sophomore at the Liaoning Provincial College of Communications, and Xuantai, 19, works at an auto repair factory in south China's Guangdong Province after graduating from a vocational school. The brothers returned to Nongding Village in Bansheng Town for a family reunion during the Spring Festival. They have seen the transformation of transportation infrastructure, school facilities, and village housing in their hometown over the last decade. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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Chocolate cherry blossom

TOKYO, Japan - A cherry blossom artwork made of chocolate is unveiled to the media in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2012. Students from the University of Tokyo and Tokyo University of the Arts as well as an artist took part in the project to make the work, about 1.20 meters in diameter and weighing around 85 kilograms, using KitKat, a chocolate product made by Nestle Japan Ltd., to encourage students preparing for entrance examinations. The work will be exhibited at Cafe Nescafe Harajuku in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward from Dec. 20 through Jan. 8.

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Cafe customer's personal bottle

OSAKA, Japan - An employee of a cafe in Osaka fills a customer's personal bottle with a drink on Jan. 19, 2012. Cafes and major thermal insulating container maker Zojirushi Corp. have been cooperating to spread drink services for personal bottle users in Japan.

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Soup kitchen in Athens

ATHENS, Greece - People line up in front of a soup kitchen operated by the authorities in Athens for homeless and poor people on Jan. 19, 2012.

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Japan SDF in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force hold discussions with workers of a quarry company in Sudan on Jan. 19, 2012. An advance team of the GSDF arrived in the capital Juba in mid-January to build roads under a U.N. peacekeeping mission and help improve the infrastructure of the 54th African nation that became independent in July 2011.

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Japanese tennis player Nishikori

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 19, 2011, shows Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori. Nishikori beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in the fourth round of the men's singles at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 23, 2012, advancing to the quarterfinals. He is scheduled to face Briton Andy Murray in his first Grand Slam singles quarterfinal match.

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Japan nuclear disaster minister in France

PARIS, France - Japan's nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono (L) and French energy minister Eric Besson shake hands before their meeting in Paris on Jan. 19, 2012.

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U.S. papers' coverage of Japanese pitcher Darvish

ARLINGTON, United States - U.S. papers report about Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish joining the Texas Rangers in their Jan. 19, 2012 issues. The 25-year-old right-hander has agreed to a six-year deal, the Rangers announced the previous day.

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Japan nuclear disaster minister in France

PARIS, France - Japan's nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono (L) and French energy minister Eric Besson (2nd from R) meet in Paris on Jan. 19, 2012.

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Higashino among Edgar award nominees

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino. Mystery Writers of America on Jan. 19, 2012, announced its nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, including ''The Devotion of Suspect X'' by Higashino for the best novel category.

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Remains of body found on N. Korean boat transferred

YONAGO, Japan - A vehicle (front), carrying the cremated remains of a man found dead on a North Korean boat in Japanese waters, leaves a local Japan Coast Guard office in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 19, 2012, to hand the remains over to the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.

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Tanaka wants to create Japan-China liaison

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka is interviewed by Kyodo News and other media outlets in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2012. Tanaka said he is keen on speeding up efforts to create a maritime liaison system between Japan and China to avoid disputes in the East China Sea, given Beijing's assertiveness at sea.

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Education minister Hirano at school in Fukushima Pref.

KAWAMATA, Japan - Japan's education minister Hirofumi Hirano eats lunch provided by the school with elementary students at a junior high school in the town of Kawamata in Fukushima Prefecture on Jan. 19, 2012. The students evacuated from the village of Iitate, a high-risk area in the prefecture for radiation exposure due to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Japanese pitcher Darvish divorces TV personality Saeko

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photos show Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish (L) and actress and TV personality Saeko. Darvish and Saeko, both 25, had divorce papers submitted to the relevant ward office in Tokyo through their agent on Jan. 19, 2012. The same day Japan time, it was announced that the right-hander had agreed with the Texas Rangers on a six-year contract.

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E. Timor president in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda shake hands before their meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2012. Noda is wearing an eye patch because of an injury.

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Kodak booth at international CES

LAS VEGAS, United States - Photo taken on Jan. 11, 2012, shows Eastman Kodak Co.'s exhibition booth at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pioneering U.S. photography firm has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with a New York court, the company said Jan. 19, 2012.

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Space probe Hayabusa capsule at tsunami-hit city

OFUNATO, Japan - Children view a capsule brought back to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa unmanned space probe in 2010 at an exhibition in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 19, 2012. The exhibition featuring the capsule and other items from Hayabusa began that day in a bid to lift residents' spirits as the city tries to recover from the March 11 tsunami.

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Space probe Hayabusa capsule at tsunami-hit city

OFUNATO, Japan - Children view a capsule brought back to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa unmanned space probe in 2010 at an exhibition in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 19, 2012. The exhibition featuring the capsule and other items from Hayabusa began that day in a bid to lift residents' spirits as the city tries to recover from the March 11 tsunami.

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Russian Orthodox Epiphany

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - People take a dip into water where ice has been removed in the sea in Vladivostok, the Russian Far East, when the temperature was below minus 10 C in the early hours of Jan. 19, 2012, to celebrate the Russian Orthodox Epiphany.

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Russian Orthodox Epiphany

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - People take a dip into water where ice has been removed in the sea in Vladivostok, the Russian Far East, when the temperature was below minus 10 C in the early hours of Jan. 19, 2012, to celebrate the Russian Orthodox Epiphany.

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Rangers enter final day of negotiations with Darvish

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Nippon Ham Fighters right-hander Yu Darvish. On Jan. 18, 2012, the Texas Rangers entered the final day of their 30-day negotiating period with the Japanese ace, which expires at 5 p.m. EST that day, or 7 a.m. on Jan. 19 in Japan.

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Egyptian sumo wrestler to debut in March

TOKYO, Japan - Abdelrahman Shaalan practices at the Otake stable in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Jan. 15, 2012. The 19-year-old Egyptian, the first African to enter the sumo world, will make his debut at the March tournament in Osaka.

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Madame Tussauds waxworks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yuko Oshima (L), a member of Japanese pop idol group AKB48, poses with a waxwork of herself on display at an exhibition organized by London's Madame Tussauds wax museum at Decks Tokyo Beach in Tokyo's Daiba district on Oct. 19, 2011. The ''Madame Tussauds Tokyo'' exhibition through Jan. 4, 2012, features around 20 waxworks of celebrities and characters.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows a road lined with cherry trees (top) pictured on April 19, 2012, in Tomioka in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, designated as off-limits due to radiation leaks at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and the same road (bottom) after entry restrictions were partially lifted, pictured on Jan. 13, 2021, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Madame Tussauds waxworks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yuko Oshima (L), a member of Japanese pop idol group AKB48, poses with a waxwork of herself on display at an exhibition organized by London's Madame Tussauds wax museum at Decks Tokyo Beach in Tokyo's Daiba district on Oct. 19, 2011. The ''Madame Tussauds Tokyo'' exhibition through Jan. 4, 2012, features around 20 waxworks of celebrities and characters. (Kyodo)

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Cafe customer's personal bottle

OSAKA, Japan - An employee of a cafe in Osaka fills a customer's personal bottle with a drink on Jan. 19, 2012. Cafes and major thermal insulating container maker Zojirushi Corp. have been cooperating to spread drink services for personal bottle users in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Japan SDF in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force hold discussions with workers of a quarry company in Sudan on Jan. 19, 2012. An advance team of the GSDF arrived in the capital Juba in mid-January to build roads under a U.N. peacekeeping mission and help improve the infrastructure of the 54th African nation that became independent in July 2011. (Kyodo)

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Soup kitchen in Athens

ATHENS, Greece - People line up in front of a soup kitchen operated by the authorities in Athens for homeless and poor people on Jan. 19, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Japanese tennis player Nishikori

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 19, 2011, shows Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori. Nishikori beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in the fourth round of the men's singles at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 23, 2012, advancing to the quarterfinals. He is scheduled to face Briton Andy Murray in his first Grand Slam singles quarterfinal match. (Kyodo)

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Kodak booth at international CES

LAS VEGAS, United States - Photo taken on Jan. 11, 2012, shows Eastman Kodak Co.'s exhibition booth at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pioneering U.S. photography firm has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with a New York court, the company said Jan. 19, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Higashino among Edgar award nominees

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino. Mystery Writers of America on Jan. 19, 2012, announced its nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, including ''The Devotion of Suspect X'' by Higashino for the best novel category. (Kyodo)

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Remains of body found on N. Korean boat transferred

YONAGO, Japan - A vehicle (front), carrying the cremated remains of a man found dead on a North Korean boat in Japanese waters, leaves a local Japan Coast Guard office in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 19, 2012, to hand the remains over to the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Japan nuclear disaster minister in France

PARIS, France - Japan's nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono (L) and French energy minister Eric Besson (2nd from R) meet in Paris on Jan. 19, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Education minister Hirano at school in Fukushima Pref.

KAWAMATA, Japan - Japan's education minister Hirofumi Hirano eats lunch provided by the school with elementary students at a junior high school in the town of Kawamata in Fukushima prefecture on Jan. 19, 2012. The students evacuated from the village of Iitate, a high-risk area in the prefecture for radiation exposure due to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (Kyodo)

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U.S. papers' coverage of Japanese pitcher Darvish

ARLINGTON, United States - U.S. papers report about Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish joining the Texas Rangers in their Jan. 19, 2012 issues. The 25-year-old right-hander has agreed to a six-year deal, the Rangers announced the previous day. (Kyodo)

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Japan nuclear disaster minister in France

PARIS, France - Japan's nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono (L) and French energy minister Eric Besson shake hands before their meeting in Paris on Jan. 19, 2012. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO releases images of interior of Fukushima No. 2 reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied photo shows the inner wall of the primary container of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. On Jan. 19, 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Co. inserted an industrial endoscope into the reactor that suffered meltdown following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in the first attempt by the plant's operator to directly check the interiors of the crippled reactors at the complex. Due to the effects of radiation, the image is blurry and has many spots. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Co.)(Kyodo)

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TEPCO releases images of interior of Fukushima No. 2 reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied photo shows pipes inside the primary container of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. On Jan. 19, 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Co. inserted an industrial endoscope into the reactor that suffered meltdown following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in the first attempt by the plant's operator to directly check the interiors of the crippled reactors at the complex. Due to the effects of radiation, the image is blurry and has many spots. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Co.)(Kyodo)

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Japanese pitcher Darvish divorces TV personality Saeko

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photos show Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish (L) and actress and TV personality Saeko. Darvish and Saeko, both 25, had divorce papers submitted to the relevant ward office in Tokyo through their agent on Jan. 19, 2012. The same day Japan time, it was announced that the right-hander had agreed with the Texas Rangers on a six-year contract. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO releases images of interior of Fukushima No. 2 reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied photo shows the inside of the primary container of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The rod-like object near the center is a thermometer and mesh scaffolding can be seen in the background. On Jan. 19, 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Co. inserted an industrial endoscope into the reactor that suffered meltdown following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in the first attempt by the plant's operator to directly check the interiors of the crippled reactors at the complex. Due to the effects of radiation, the image is blurry and has many spots. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Co.)(Kyodo)

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TEPCO releases images of interior of Fukushima No. 2 reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied photo shows a pipe inside the primary container of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. On Jan. 19, 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Co. inserted an industrial endoscope into the reactor that suffered meltdown following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in the first attempt by the plant's operator to directly check the interiors of the crippled reactors at the complex. Due to the effects of radiation, the image is blurry and has many spots. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Co.)(Kyodo)

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TEPCO releases images of interior of Fukushima No. 2 reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied photo shows the inner wall of the primary container of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. On Jan. 19, 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Co. inserted an industrial endoscope into the reactor that suffered meltdown following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in the first attempt by the plant's operator to directly check the interiors of the crippled reactors at the complex. Due to the effects of radiation, the image is blurry and has many spots. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Co.)(Kyodo)