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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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Chinese classics gain popularity in Türkiye as cultural exchange flourishes: sinologist

STORY: Chinese classics gain popularity in Türkiye as cultural exchange flourishes: sinologist SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 9, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 13, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:56 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Türkiye 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GIRAY FIDAN, Turkish sinologist, author and translator 3. various of China 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): GIRAY FIDAN, Turkish sinologist, author and translator STORYLINE A Turkish sinologist is passionately introducing the Chinese culture of peace through his translations to an ever-growing audience of Turkish readers. In 2014, Giray Fidan, an Ankara-based professor of Chinese language and history, collaborated with his professor to translate the Chinese classic "The Art of War" from Chinese into Turkish. The translated version of the book by ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu 25 centuries ago became a bestseller in Türkiye, where it was reprinted 25 times in nine years. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GIRAY FIDAN, Turkish sinologist, author and translator "'The A

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Himalaya Airlines becomes first certified safety-audit operator in Nepal

STORY: Himalaya Airlines becomes first certified safety-audit operator in Nepal SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 9, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 10, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:35 LOCATION: Katmandu CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference STORYLINE: Himalaya Airlines has been registered as an operator under an International Air Transport Association (IATA) safety audit program, the first and only one for airlines in Nepal. The move means the operational management and control systems of Himalaya Airlines have been recognized and accepted internationally, the Kathmandu-based airline announced on Tuesday at a press meet in the Nepali capital. Himalaya Airlines, a China-Nepal joint venture established in 2014, was certified in late December under the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) program, and the registry is valid until early March 2025. "This milestone signifies a positive shift in Nepal's aviation industry," Vijay Shrestha, the operator's vice resident, said at the press briefing. "We're proud to lead by

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Namibia trains youngsters to boost athletics community

STORY: Namibia trains youngsters to boost athletics community DATELINE: Jan. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:01 LOCATION: Windhoek CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Wanderers sports field in Windhoek, Namibia 2. SOUNDBITE (English): LEONI VAN RENSBURG, Organizer of the Quinton-Steele Botes Athletics Coaching and Training Clinic STORYLINE: Namibia's Quinton-Steele Botes Athletics Coaching and Training Clinic is imparting crucial athletics skills to youngsters over a four-day workshop to boost the national athletics community. The training camp, which was first established in 1993 by the late Namibian athletics administrator Quinton-Steele Botes who died in 2014, runs from Jan. 9 to 12. The camp focuses on the principles of all athletics events, including sprints, hurdles, throw, high and long jump. Nearly 300 participants are clustered into three age groups: the kids' athletics program for six-to-ten-year-olds, the primary and intermediate program, and the high school and seniors program. SOUNDBI

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Yokozuna Hakuho to advertise new 'shochu' liquor

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho attends a press conference held by Kirishima Shuzo Co. in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2014, to announce the release of a new "shochu" liquor product set for Jan. 21, 2015. The top sumo wrestler is set to appear in the advertisement of the new product for the distilled beverage maker.

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Recipe book for children with food allergies

OSAKA, Japan - A recipe book written by researchers of Nippon Meat Packers Inc. features menus safe for children with food allergies, including a pudding that can be made without eggs and milk. The book went on sale Jan. 9, 2014.

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Cabinet OKs 3.12 tril. yen extra budget for stimulus steps

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) and his ministers attend an extraordinary Cabinet meeting on Jan. 9, 2015, in Tokyo to endorse a 3.12 trillion yen supplementary budget for fiscal 2014 to fund an economic stimulus package aimed at bolstering domestic demand curtailed by the April 1 consumption tax hike and weaker yen.

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Imperial Palace lit up

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo's Imperial Palace is lit up on Dec. 23, 2014, the 81st birthday of Emperor Akihito. The third annual winter-time illumination, which began the same day, will be in place until Jan. 4 between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

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Imperial Palace lit up

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo's Imperial Palace is lit up on Dec. 23, 2014, the 81st birthday of Emperor Akihito. The third annual winter-time illumination, which began the same day, will be in place until Jan. 4 between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

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Japan keep coach Aguirre for Asian Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromi Hara (L), general secretary of the Japan Football Association, and JFA President Kuniya Daini attend a JAF executive meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014. The JFA decided that national team coach Javier Aguirre would remain in charge for the Jan. 9-31 Asian Cup despite his alleged involvement in a match-fixing scandal in Spain.

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Japan keep coach Aguirre for Asian Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromi Hara, general secretary of the Japan Football Association, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014. Hara said the JFA decided that national team coach Javier Aguirre would remain in charge for the Jan. 9 to 31 Asian Cup despite his alleged involvement in a match-fixing scandal in Spain.

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'Station master' Tama lights up Xmas illumination

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Tama, the calico cat "station master" at Wakayama Electric Railway Co.'s Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, attends the station's illumination ceremony on Dec. 7, 2014. The light-up attraction runs through Jan. 9, 2015.

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Japan Post starts selling New Year's cards

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post Co. President Toru Takahashi (C), flanked by actress Haru (L) and comedian Yu Sawabe, poses for photos with Japanese New Year's cards for the year of 2015, in Tokyo, on Oct. 30, 2014, during a ceremony to commemorate the first day of their nationwide sale. The postcards, which Japanese traditionally send to friends and relatives on New Year's Day, will be on sale until Jan. 9, and 3.42 billion of them are expected to be issued.

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J-League unveils J-3 opening card, logo

TOKYO, Japan - J-League officials, including Chairman Kazumi Ohigashi (L), unveil a logo for the professional football league's third division during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2014. The new division is set to open on March 9.

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Tokyo gubernatorial candidate Hosokawa

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, who is running in the Feb. 9, 2014, Tokyo gubernatorial election, holds a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Jan. 28.

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Japan's Ishikawa 7th at Farmers Insurance Open

LA JOLLA, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa competes in the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open on Jan. 26, 2014, to finish in a tie for seventh place with a 7-under-par 281 at the Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, California. American Scott Stallings won the tournament with a 9-under total.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Morihiro Hosokawa (L), a former prime minister, shakes hands with Junichiro Koizumi, another former prime minister, following Koizumi's speech backing his candidacy, in the Shibuya area of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. With popular former Prime Minister Koizumi, Hosokawa has formed a rare alliance for the election based on their common goal of abolishing nuclear power generation in Japan.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) gives a campaign speech for Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Morihiro Hosokawa (R), also a former prime minister, in the Shibuya area of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. With popular former Prime Minister Koizumi, Hosokawa has formed a rare alliance for the election based on their common goal of abolishing nuclear power generation in Japan.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Morihiro Hosokawa, a former prime minister, waves to voters in the Shibuya area of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. With popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Hosokawa has formed a rare alliance for the election based on their common goal of abolishing nuclear power generation in Japan.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, speaks in the Japanese capital's Shibuya district after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. He is recommended by the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, speaks in the Shibuya area of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Morihiro Hosokawa, a former prime minister, speaks in the Shibuya area of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. With popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Hosokawa has formed a rare alliance for the election based on their common goal of abolishing nuclear power generation in Japan.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Yoichi Masuzoe, a former health minister, speaks outside Kichijoji Station in the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. He is backed by the Liberal Democratic Party and its ruling coalition partner, the New Komeito party.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Toshio Tamogami (R), a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, shake hands with former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara in the Shibuya area of the Japanese capital after official campaigning began on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Yoshiro Nakamatsu, an inventor known as Dr. NakaMats, speaks in the Shibuya area of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Morihiro Hosokawa, a former prime minister, speaks outside the metropolitan government hall of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. With popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Hosokawa has formed a rare alliance for the election based on their common goal of abolishing nuclear power generation in Japan.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, speaks in the Shibuya area of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Yoshiro Nakamatsu, an inventor known as Dr. NakaMats, speaks in the Shibuya area of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Morihiro Hosokawa (L), a former prime minister, speaks outside the metropolitan government hall of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. With popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R), Hosokawa has formed a rare alliance for the election based on their common goal of abolishing nuclear power generation in Japan.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Morihiro Hosokawa, a former prime minister, speaks outside the metropolitan government hall of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. With popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Hosokawa has formed a rare alliance for the election based on their common goal of abolishing nuclear power generation in Japan.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Yoichi Masuzoe, a former health minister, speaks outside Shinjuku Station in the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. He is backed by the Liberal Democratic Party and its ruling coalition partner, the New Komeito party.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, speaks outside Shinjuku Station in the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. He is recommended by the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Yoichi Masuzoe, a former health minister, speaks outside Shinjuku Station in the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. He is backed by the Liberal Democratic Party and its ruling coalition partner, the New Komeito party.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Morihiro Hosokawa, a former prime minister, speaks outside the metropolitan government hall of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. With popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Hosokawa has formed a rare alliance for the election based on their common goal of abolishing nuclear power generation in Japan.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, speaks outside Shinjuku Station in the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election. He is recommended by the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, speaks in the Shibuya area of the Japanese capital after the official campaigning kicked off on Jan. 23, 2014, for the Feb. 9 election.

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Campaign for Tokyo gubernatorial election starts on Jan. 23

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa formally announces he will run in the Tokyo gubernatorial election during a news conference at the metropolitan government building in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2014, just a day before the official campaign for the Feb. 9 election begins. He pledged to work for ending all nuclear power generation in Japan in the future.

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Official campaigning for Tokyo gubernatorial race to start Jan. 23

TOKYO, Japan - Kenji Utsunomiya, former chairman of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, who will run in the Tokyo gubernatorial race, speaks at a news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Jan. 22, 2014, a day before official campaigning commences for the Feb. 9 election.

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Official campaigning for Tokyo gubernatorial race to start Jan. 23

TOKYO, Japan - Toshio Tamogami, former chief of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force who will run in the Tokyo gubernatorial race, speaks at a news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Jan. 22, 2014, a day before official campaigning commences for the Feb. 9 election.

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Official campaigning for Tokyo gubernatorial race to start Jan. 23

TOKYO, Japan - Former health minister Yoichi Masuzoe, who will run in the Tokyo gubernatorial race, speaks at a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2014, a day before official campaigning commences for the Feb. 9 election.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Former health minister Yoichi Masuzoe enters the headquarters of the New Komeito party in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2014. The Tokyo branch of the party decided to support him in the Feb. 9 Tokyo gubernatorial election.

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Vets reopen clinic away from home in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Veterinarian Michiko Watanabe examines a cat found in the evacuation zone set after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, on Jan. 9, 2014 at her animal clinic in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. Together with her vet husband, Watanabe reopened the clinic in April 2012, a year after they evacuated their hometown near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 2011 disaster.

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Tanaka meets with White Sox officials

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Rakuten Eagles ace Masahiro Tanaka. Tanaka, who is currently in the Los Angeles area, has met with officials of the Chicago White Sox, ESPN.com reported on Jan. 9, 2014.

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Ex-PM Hosokawa

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa. He has decided to run in the Feb. 9, 2014, Tokyo gubernatorial election, sources close to him said Jan. 10.

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Space forum

WASHINGTON, United States - The International Space Exploration Forum is held at the U.S. State Department in Washington on Jan. 9, 2014. Representatives from about 40 countries and regions participated in the first full ministerial-level forum on space exploration.

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Japanese prime minister in Oman

MUSCAT, Oman - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said shake hands before their talks in Muscat, Oman, on Jan. 9, 2014.

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AC Milan's Honda joins practice

CARNAGO, Italy - Japan midfielder Keisuke Honda of AC Milan takes part in a practice session at his new team's training ground in Carnago, near Milan, Italy, on Jan. 9, 2014.

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Honda in Milan

MILAN, Italy - Photo taken in Milan, Italy, shows the Jan. 9, 2014, editions of local newspapers reporting on Japan midfielder Keisuke Honda joining the Serie A soccer club AC Milan.

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Japanese prime minister in Oman

MUSCAT, Oman - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said hold talks in Muscat, Oman, on Jan. 9, 2014.

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Japan prime minister in Oman

MUSCAT, Oman - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at Muscat airport in Oman on Jan. 9, 2014. He is on a weeklong trip to four countries in the Middle East and Africa -- Oman, Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Ethiopia.