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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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Pilgrimage for victims of March 2011 disaster

Monks go on a walking pilgrimage on Jan. 23, 2023, in Minamisoma, a northeastern Japan city devastated by the massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, in memory of its victims.

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Pilgrimage for victims of March 2011 disaster

Monks go on a walking pilgrimage on Jan. 23, 2023, in Minamisoma, a northeastern Japan city devastated by the massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, in memory of its victims.

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NHK thanked for economic boost from hit drama 'Amachan'

TOKYO, Japan - Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso (L) presents Masayuki Matsumoto (R), president of public broadcaster NHK, with a certificate of gratitude on Jan. 23, 2014, at the NHK Broadcasting Center in Tokyo in appreciation of economic and social benefits brought about by NHK's hit drama "Amachan." Aired in 2013, the drama revolved around the traditional culture of "ama" women divers and the rebuilding of northeastern Japan hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami

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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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U.S. Air Force civilian employee's trial

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 23, 2012, shows a courtroom of the Naha District Court in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, immediately before the start of the first hearing of the trial of Rufus James Ramsey III, a 24-year-old civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force in the prefecture, over a fatal vehicle collision in January 2011. At the hearing, Ramsey admitted to a charge of negligent driving resulting in death. He has been indicted in the first application of newly agreed arrangements between Japan and the United States on personnel at U.S. bases.

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Ozawa indicted over fund misreporting

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, a former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, shakes hands with a voter in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 23, 2011, while visiting the prefecture to support candidates in a prefectural assembly election. Ozawa was indicted on Jan. 31, 2011, over accounting irregularities involving his political funds body.

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Tunisia in Jasmine Revolution

TOKYO, Japan - Young men take part in a demonstration near the prime minister's office in Tunis on Jan. 23, 2011, demanding the ouster of Cabinet ministers from the former administration of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Written on the wall in French is ''Death to dictatorship.''

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Hakuho with Emperor's Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Grand champion Hakuho poses with the Emperor's Cup at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2011, after winning the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament. The Mongolian yokozuna won his sixth straight tournament title, becoming the third man to achieve the feat following Taiho and Asashoryu.

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Tunisia unrest

TUNIS, Tunisia - A high school student holds a message demanding Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi step down in a number of languages during a demonstration in Tunis on Jan. 23, 2011.

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Nagoya mayoral election campaign

NAGOYA, Japan - Mayoral election candidate Yoshihiro Ishida, a former House of Representatives member, hits the streets as campaigning kicks off in Nagoya, central Japan, on Jan. 23, 2011. Yoshida has received the backing of the Democratic Party of Japan, the Social Democratic Party and the People's New Party for the Feb. 6 poll, which is being seen as a bellwether for unified local elections across the country in the spring.

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Hakuho finishes New Year meet on winning note

TOKYO, Japan - Grand champion Hakuho (R) forces veteran ozeki Kaio out of the ring on Jan. 23, 2011, the final day of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan. The Mongolian yokozuna won his sixth straight tournament title, becoming the third man to achieve the feat following Taiho and Asashoryu.

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Akihabara pedestrian zone reopened

TOKYO, Japan - People dressed as animation characters celebrate the reopening of a section of a vehicle-free pedestrian zone in Tokyo's Akihabara district, which is popular with shoppers and tourists for its cluster of shops selling electronics gadgets, on Jan. 23, 2011. The pedestrian zone was closed after a man drove a truck into shoppers, hitting and killing three men, and then fatally stabbed four people and left 10 others injured in June 2008.

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Nagoya mayoral election campaign

NAGOYA, Japan - Mayoral election candidate Hitoshi Sugiyama, a former Nagoya city assembly member, attends an election event as campaigning kicks off in the central Japan city on Jan. 23, 2011. The Feb. 6 poll is being seen as a bellwether for unified local elections across the country in the spring.

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Nagoya mayoral election campaign

NAGOYA, Japan - Mayoral election candidate Hiroko Hatta, a former House of Councillors member, hits the streets as campaigning kicks off in Nagoya, central Japan, on Jan. 23, 2011. Hatta is the recommended candidate of the Japanese Communist Party in the election, which is being seen as a bellwether for unified local elections across the country in the spring.

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Akihabara pedestrian zone reopened

TOKYO, Japan - People including local officials cut the ribbon during a ceremony to mark the reopening of a section of a vehicle-free pedestrian zone in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district on Jan. 23, 2011. The pedestrian zone was closed after a man drove a truck into shoppers in June 2008, hitting and killing three men, and then fatally stabbed four people and left 10 others injured.

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Nagoya mayoral election campaign

NAGOYA, Japan - Former Nagoya mayor Takashi Kawamura, who is running in the city's mayoral election to regain office, addresses voters as campaigning kicks off in the central Japan city on Jan. 23, 2011. Kawamura, who resigned as mayor the previous month to test public opinion on his tax cut and other pledges that were rejected by the city assembly, is running on the ticket of the political organization that he leads, called ''Genzei Nippon,'' meaning ''tax cut Japan.'' The Feb. 6 poll is being seen as a bellwether for unified local elections across the country in the spring.

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Mizutani 1st man to win 5 consecutive nat'l titles

TOKYO, Japan - Jun Mizutani plays at the national table tennis championships in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2011. Mizutani became the first man to win the men's national singles title five times in a row by defeating Chinese-born Kazuhiro Chan four games to none in the final.

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LDP annual convention

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party of Japan President Sadakazu Tanigaki (C) and other members of the party raise their fists at the main opposition party's annual convention in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2011. Tanigaki vowed to regain the reins of the Japanese government this year.

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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.