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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-GUANGXI-MOUNTAIN VILLAGE-CHILDREN-CHANGE (CN)

(230603) -- NANNING, June 3, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combo photo shows Meng Wenchao, who is a senior high school student, posing for a photo at home in front of a wall full of his certificates of merit on Jan. 26, 2023 (above) and 7-year-old Meng Wenchao (1st L) walking on his way home on Sept. 5, 2012 (below, photo taken by Xinhua photographer Huang Xiaobang) in Nonglei Village of Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. TO GO WITH "Feature: Children in the photos witness changes in China mountain village" (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-MOUNTAIN VILLAGE-CHILDREN-CHANGE (CN)

(230603) -- NANNING, June 3, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combo photo shows Meng Xuanhai, who is making a living in Guangdong Province after graduating from a vocational school, posing for a photo by a road when he comes back home for the Spring Festival on Jan. 26, 2023 (above) and 7-year-old Meng Xuanhai (1st R) playing table tennis on Dec. 27, 2012 (below) in Nongyong Village of Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. TO GO WITH "Feature: Children in the photos witness changes in China mountain village" (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-MOUNTAIN VILLAGE-CHILDREN-CHANGE (CN)

(230603) -- NANNING, June 3, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combo photo shows 7-year-old Meng Wangbing (2nd L) playing with friends at school on July 4, 2012 (L) and Meng Wangbing, who is a freshman at Guilin University of Technology, posing for a photo on Jan. 25, 2023 in Nongyong Village of Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. TO GO WITH "Feature: Children in the photos witness changes in China mountain village" (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-MOUNTAIN VILLAGE-CHILDREN-CHANGE (CN)

(230603) -- NANNING, June 3, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combo photo shows 7-year-old Lan Tiande (1st R) on his way to school on Sept. 3, 2012 (L) and Lan Tiande, who is about to graduate from a vocational school, posing for a photo in front of his house when he comes back home for the Spring Festival on Jan. 23, 2023 (R) in Nongyong Village of Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. TO GO WITH "Feature: Children in the photos witness changes in China mountain village" (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-MOUNTAIN VILLAGE-CHILDREN-CHANGE (CN)

(230603) -- NANNING, June 3, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combo photo shows 7-year-old Meng Jinchen having class at school on July 4, 2012 (L) and Meng Jinchen, who is a freshman at a vocational school, posing for photos on Jan. 25, 2023 in Nongyong Village of Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. TO GO WITH "Feature: Children in the photos witness changes in China mountain village" (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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Rescued drifters questioned on JCG ship

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Photo taken on the morning of Jan. 7, 2012, shows the Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel Daisen anchored off Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture. Three North Korean men in a wooden boat found adrift off Japan's Okinoshima Island the previous day have been questioned aboard the ship.

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Euro continues weakening vs yen

TOKYO, Japan - A display in Tokyo early on Jan. 7, 2012, shows the euro trading at 97.96-97 yen.

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New Year ladder-top stunts by firefighters

TOKYO, Japan - A firefighter holds a scroll bearing a message of encouragement for the Tohoku region, which was hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, while seated atop a 7-meter ladder in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Jan. 6, 2012, in a demonstration of ladder-top stunts dating back to Japan's feudal Edo period during the annual New Year parade of fire brigades organized by the Tokyo Fire Department.

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Fuel reprocessing plant

TOKYO, Japan - A June 2012 photo shows the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, in northeastern Japan. The operator applied on Jan. 7, 2014, for a state safety assessment of the plant to put it onstream.

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Rush of holiday travelers peaks in Japan

NARITA, Japan - The departure lobby is crowded with passengers at Narita international airport near Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2012. Some 44,000 people were expected to leave the country from the airport the same day to spend their New Year holidays abroad. The number of travelers departing from the airport between Dec. 21 and Jan. 6 is estimated to reach around 600,000, up 7 percent from the previous year.

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NEC to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide

TOKYO, Japan - NEC Corp. President Nobuhiro Endo holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2012. Endo said the company will cut 10,000 jobs worldwide -- 7,000 domestic and 3,000 overseas -- in the first half of fiscal 2012. The measure is part of NEC's restructuring as its earnings have deteriorated due to the effects of the massive flooding in Thailand and sluggish mobile phone business.

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Japanese pair Morita-Fujiwara at Australian Open

MELBOURNE, Australia - Ayumi Morita of Japan (L) and compatriot Rika Fujiwara (R) play against Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan and Sloane Stephens of the United States in the first round of the women's doubles at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 18, 2012. The Japanese pair won the match 7-6(7-4), 6-4.

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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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2 years after Haiti quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A Sri Lankan U.N. peacekeeper stands with some children near an tent area for people who lost their homes from the magnitude 7.0 quake on Jan. 12, 2010, in a western suburb of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Jan. 7, 2012. An estimated 500,000 people still live in tents in Haiti even though two years have passed since the devastating quake hit the Caribbean island nation.

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2 years after Haiti quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A 20-year-old woman holds her baby daughter in a western suburb of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Jan. 7, 2012. People lost their homes from the magnitude 7.0 quake on Jan. 12, 2010. An estimated 500,000 people still live in tents even though two years have passed since the devastating quake hit the Caribbean island nation.

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2 years after Haiti quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - People who lost their homes from the magnitude 7.0 quake on Jan. 12, 2010, live in tents at a western suburb of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Jan. 7, 2012. An estimated 500,000 people still live in tents even though two years have passed since the devastating quake hit the Caribbean island nation.

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Yamanashi gov't to farm newly discovered endangered salmon species

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - The photo shows Lake Saiko where Kunimasu, an endangered deepwater salmon species, was discovered in 2010, 70 years after its extinction in 1940 in its original habitat, Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, 500 kilometers to the northeast. The photo was taken on Jan. 7, 2012.

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Actor Nitani dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 1986 shows actor Hideaki Nitani, an action movie star during the heyday of the Japanese film industry and a fixture of a popular TV police drama. Nitani died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 7, 2012. He was 81.

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S. Africa ruling party centenary

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa - Women clad in ethnic dresses dance in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on Jan. 7, 2012, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling African National Congress.

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Japan foreign minister Gemba in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (L), the deputy foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, and Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba shake hands at the foreign ministry in Riyadh on Jan. 7, 2012. The two held talks over stabilization of crude oil supply and prices amid the United States and the European Union stepping up sanctions on Iran over Tehran's nuclear program.

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Japan foreign minister Gemba in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (R), the deputy foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, and Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (L) hold talks at the foreign ministry in Riyadh on Jan. 7, 2012. (Pool Photo)

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Yokkaichi Chuo's Tamura celebrates goal vs Shoshi

TOKYO, Japan - Shota Tamura (L) of Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo from Mie Prefecture celebrates after scoring in the first half of a high school soccer national championship semifinal against Shoshi at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2012. Yokkaichi will face Ichiritsu Funabashi from Chiba Prefecture after a 6-1 victory over Shoshi from Fukushima Prefecture.

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Fire at MSDF ship

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Firefighters work on the evening of Jan. 7, 2012 to put out a fire on the 8,150-ton Tokiwa, a Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet support ship docked at the port of Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. None of the crew was injured.

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Coming-of-Age ceremony in disaster-hit Iwate Pref.

OFUNATO, Japan - Women in kimono observe a moment of silence during a ceremony on Jan. 7, 2012, held ahead of the Coming-of-Age Day on Jan. 9., in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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S. Africa ruling party centenary

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa - People pose for photos in front of the portraits of former leaders of the African National Congress, including former President Nelson Mandela, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on Jan. 7, 2012, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling party.

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Funabashi's Izumi scores vs Oita

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuji Izumi (front), captain of Ichiritsu Funabashi from Chiba Prefecture, scores in the second half of a high school soccer national championship semifinal against Oita at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2012. Funabashi will face Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo from Mie Prefecture in the final after a 2-1 victory over Oita.

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Flags presented to GSDF troops ahead of S. Sudan mission

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) hands a flag to a member of the Ground Self-Defense Force at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2012, ahead of the deployment of the troops to South Sudan on a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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School trip to tsunami-hit Natori, Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - Students of Shuyukan Senior High School in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, take a look at a site devastated by the March 11 tsunami from higher ground in the Yuriage district in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 7, 2012, during their school trip.

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PM Noda addresses GSDF on S. Sudan mission

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks in front of members of the Ground Self-Defense Force at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2012, ahead of their deployment to South Sudan on a U.N. peacekeeping mission. Noda said the deployment is to show Japan's appreciation to the international community for its assistance following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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School trip to tsunami-hit Natori, Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - Students of Shuyukan Senior High School in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, offer prayers in the Yuriage district in Natori which was devastated by the March 11 tsunami, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 7, 2012, during their school trip.

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Sony's Executive Deputy President Hirai

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Sony Corp.'s Executive Deputy President Kazuo Hirai. Sony is preparing to promote Hirai as its president, sources familiar with the matter said Jan. 7, 2012.

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Yamanashi gov't to farm newly discovered endangered salmon specie

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - The photo shows Lake Saiko where Kunimasu, an endangered deepwater salmon species, was discovered in 2010, 70 years after its extinction in 1940 in its original habitat, Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, 500 kilometers to the northeast. The photo was taken on Jan. 7, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Yamanashi gov't to farm newly discovered endangered salmon specie

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - Yasuaki Miura, 62, former chief of the Lake Saiko Fisheries Cooperative, stands in the town of Fujikawaguchi, Yamanashi Prefecture, on the shore of the lake. He caught Himemasu-like fish in March and April of 2010. Nine of the fish were later identified as Kunimasu by Kyoto University researchers. The photo was taken on Jan. 7, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Major solar power plant to be built in western Japan

OSAKA, Japan - What will be one of Japan's biggest solar power plants is set to be built in a former salt field shown in this file photo taken on Jan. 7, 2012, in Setouchi, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan. It is scheduled to begin operation in the first half of 2019. (Kyodo)

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Actor Nitani dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 1986 shows actor Hideaki Nitani, an action movie star during the heyday of the Japanese film industry and a fixture of a popular TV police drama. Nitani died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 7, 2012. He was 81. (Kyodo)

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S. Africa ruling party centenary

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa - People pose for photos in front of the portraits of former leaders of the African National Congress, including former President Nelson Mandela, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on Jan. 7, 2012, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling party. (Kyodo)

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S. Africa ruling party centenary

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa - Women clad in ethnic dresses dance in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on Jan. 7, 2012, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling African National Congress. (Kyodo)

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Fire at MSDF ship

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Firefighters work on the evening of Jan. 7, 2012 to put out a fire on the 8,150-ton Tokiwa, a Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet support ship docked at the port of Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. None of the crew was injured. (Kyodo)

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Flags presented to GSDF troops ahead of S. Sudan mission

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) hands a flag to a member of the Ground Self-Defense Force at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2012, ahead of the deployment of the troops to South Sudan on a U.N. peacekeeping mission. (Kyodo)

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Japan foreign minister Gemba in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (R), the deputy foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, and Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (L) hold talks at the foreign ministry in Riyadh on Jan. 7, 2012. (Pool Photo)(Kyodo)

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Funabashi's Izumi scores vs Oita

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuji Izumi (front), captain of Ichiritsu Funabashi from Chiba Prefecture, scores in the second half of a high school soccer national championship semifinal against Oita at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2012. Funabashi will face Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo from Mie Prefecture in the final after a 2-1 victory over Oita. (Kyodo)

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Yokkaichi Chuo's Tamura celebrates goal vs Shoshi

TOKYO, Japan - Shota Tamura (L) of Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo from Mie Prefecture celebrates after scoring in the first half of a high school soccer national championship semifinal against Shoshi at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2012. Yokkaichi will face Ichiritsu Funabashi from Chiba Prefecture after a 6-1 victory over Shoshi from Fukushima Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Japan foreign minister Gemba in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (L), the deputy foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, and Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba shake hands at the foreign ministry in Riyadh on Jan. 7, 2012. The two held talks over stabilization of crude oil supply and prices amid the United States and the European Union stepping up sanctions on Iran over Tehran's nuclear program. (Kyodo)

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School trip to tsunami-hit Natori, Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - Students of Shuyukan Senior High School in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, take a look at a site devastated by the March 11 tsunami from higher ground in the Yuriage district in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 7, 2012, during their school trip. (Kyodo)

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Sony's Executive Deputy President Hirai

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Sony Corp.'s Executive Deputy President Kazuo Hirai. Sony is preparing to promote Hirai as its president, sources familiar with the matter said Jan. 7, 2012. (Kyodo)

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PM Noda addresses GSDF on S. Sudan mission

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks in front of members of the Ground Self-Defense Force at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2012, ahead of their deployment to South Sudan on a U.N. peacekeeping mission. Noda said the deployment is to show Japan's appreciation to the international community for its assistance following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Coming-of-Age ceremony in disaster-hit Iwate Pref.

OFUNATO, Japan - Women in kimono observe a moment of silence during a ceremony on Jan. 7, 2012, held ahead of the Coming-of-Age Day on Jan. 9., in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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School trip to tsunami-hit Natori, Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - Students of Shuyukan Senior High School in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, offer prayers in the Yuriage district in Natori which was devastated by the March 11 tsunami, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 7, 2012, during their school trip. (Kyodo)

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Euro continues weakening vs yen

TOKYO, Japan - A display in Tokyo early on Jan. 7, 2012, shows the euro trading at 97.96-97 yen. (Kyodo)