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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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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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Japanese adventurer to start for solo trek to North Pole

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Yasunaga Ogita poses in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Jan. 25, 2012. In March 2012, Ogita plans to begin an unassisted solo trek of about 800 kilometers across Arctic ice from Ward Hunt Island in northern Canada to the North Pole.

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Scottish parliament in Edinburgh

EDINBURGH, Britain - Photo shows the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh on Jan. 25, 2012, with three flags flying in front -- the Union Jack (L), the British national flag, the Cross of St. Andrew (C), the flag of Scotland, and the European Union flag (R).

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Scottish National Party leader Salmond

EDINBURGH, Britain - Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party and the first minister of Scotland, gives a press conference in Edinburgh, northern Britain, on Jan. 25, 2012, over plans for holding a referendum on independence from Britain in the autumn of 2014.

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Longhouse in community

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 25, 2012, shows an old longhouse in the ''Gojikara Mura'' (after five village) community, in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture. The community with welfare facilities brings together young and old people.

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American seeks to return Japanese flag from WWII

YOKOSUKA, Japan - U.S. Navy reservist Michael Reid from Minnesota holds a Japanese national flag, which his grandfather brought back from the Philippines, at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Jan. 25, 2012. Reid is seeking to return the flag bearing Japanese names and messages to the original owner or the owner's family. Reid's grandfather William Galac fought in World War II in the Philippines and died in 2000 without having talked much about the flag or his war experience.

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Japanese actor Watanabe in Davos

DAVOS, Switzerland - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe holds a press conference in Davos, Switzerland, after giving a speech at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum there on Jan. 25, 2012. The 52-year-old actor's speech was about the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Japanese actor Watanabe in Davos

DAVOS, Switzerland - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe holds a press conference in Davos, Switzerland, after giving a speech at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum there on Jan. 25, 2012. The 52-year-old actor's speech was about the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Egypt marks 1st anniversary of uprising's start

CAIRO, Egypt - Young men hold a banner with antigovernment slogans in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Jan. 25, 2012. Egypt marked the first anniversary the same day of the start of a popular prodemocracy uprising that led to the resignation of former President Hosni Mubarak.

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Egypt marks 1st anniversary of uprising's start

CAIRO, Egypt - People hold banners bearing prodemocracy slogans in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Jan. 25, 2012. Egypt marked the first anniversary the same day of the start of a popular prodemocracy uprising that led to the resignation of former President Hosni Mubarak.

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Egypt marks 1st anniversary of uprising's start

CAIRO, Egypt - A man shouts a prodemocracy slogan in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Jan. 25, 2012. Egypt marked the first anniversary the same day of the start of a popular prodemocracy uprising that led to the resignation of former President Hosni Mubarak.

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Elpida Memory's Hiroshima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Elpida Memory Inc.'s plant in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. The Japanese chipmaker currently undergoing rehabilitation is considering selling the mainstay plant to procure funds, sources close to the matter said Jan. 25, 2012.

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Egypt marks 1st anniversary of uprising's start

CAIRO, Egypt - A boy gets the markings of an Egyptian flag painted on his cheeks in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Jan. 25, 2012. Egypt marked the first anniversary the same day of the start of a popular prodemocracy uprising that led to the resignation of former President Hosni Mubarak.

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Commemorating war dead on Iwoto Island

TOKYO, Japan - A man offers water at the foot of Mt. Suribachi on Iwoto Island, about 1,200 kilometers south of central Tokyo, on Jan. 25, 2012. Some 50 people, including kin of Japanese soldiers who died in the World War II battle on the Pacific island, attended an annual ceremony held the same day by the Tokyo metropolitan government on the island to commemorate the war dead. (Pool photo)

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Commemorating war dead on Iwoto Island

TOKYO, Japan - Participants of a ceremony including kin of Japanese soldiers who perished in the World War II battle on Iwoto Island offer flowers to commemorate them on the island on Jan. 25, 2012. The annual ceremony by the Tokyo metropolitan government is usually held in spring or summer but the fiscal 2011 ceremony was postponed due to a water shortage on the Pacific island, about 1,200 kilometers south of central Tokyo, and the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Nuclear crisis investigation panel head Hatamura

TOKYO, Japan - Yotaro Hatamura, head of a government-appointed panel investigating the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2012, after a panel meeting. Hatamura, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, said that the panel will compile its final report by the end of July 2012.

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Commemorating war dead on Iwoto Island

TOKYO, Japan - Kin of soldiers who perished in World War II look down at the landscape of Iwoto Island from Mt. Suribachi on Jan. 25, 2012. About 50 people attended an annual ceremony held the same day by the Tokyo metropolitan government on the island to commemorate the war dead. About 20,000 Japanese soldiers died in the WWII battle on the Pacific island about 1,200 kilometers south of central Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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Prince Akishino, family

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Akishino (C, front row), his wife Princess Kiko (L) and their younger daughter Princess Kako (R) attend a preview of a Japanese film in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2012. The 46-year-old prince is the younger son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. (Pool photo)

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Japanese universities consider big change to academic year

TOKYO, Japan - University of Tokyo President Junichi Hamada (L) speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2012, over a plan to shift the beginning of its academic year to fall from spring. Results released Jan. 25, 2012, of a Kyodo News survey showed more than 40 percent of Japan's national universities, as well as many of the country's top private universities, will consider following the University of Tokyo's lead in switching to start their academic year in the autumn.

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Japan records 1st trade deficit in 31 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2011 shows Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.'s plant producing vehicles for export in Ota, Gunma Prefecture. The Japanese government said Jan. 25, 2012, that the country recorded its first annual trade deficit in 31 years in 2011 amid slowing exports, affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the strength of the yen, and a gloomier outlook for the world economy as a result of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

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Astronaut Hoshide at Tsukuba Space Center

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (R) explains about a device used to release small satellites from the International Space Station at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Jan. 25, 2012. Hoshide is scheduled to stay on the ISS for about six months from late May 2012 for his mission.

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S. Korean foreign minister meets ex-'comfort women'

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung Hwan (R) meets with two women who were forced into wartime sex slavery for the now-defunct Japanese military during World War II at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul on Jan. 25, 2012. The meeting was the first between a South Korean foreign minister and such women, euphemistically called ''comfort women'' in Japan.

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Shiga Gov. Kada, Otsu Mayor Koshi

OTSU, Japan - Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada (R) holds talks with Naomi Koshi, the newly elected mayor of Otsu, Shiga's capital city, at the prefectural government office in Otsu on Jan. 25, 2012. Koshi started working as the mayor the same day following the 36-year-old lawyer's election Jan. 22 as Japan's youngest-ever female mayor. It is the first time in Japan for a prefecture and its capital city to be run by women.

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Cannabis in musical instruments

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows smuggled cannabis resin, which had been hidden inside ethnic Indian musical instruments, and the instruments at a police station in Fukuoka Prefecture on Jan. 25, 2012, confiscated by the Fukuoka prefectural police. The police suspect the cannabis was smuggled from India as it was hidden in the instruments when the cargo arrived in Japan in November 2011. The police have arrested gang member Shoji Kasahara on suspicion of possessing the cannabis for the purpose of selling.

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No appeal in 2005 train derailment disaster

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the scene of the April 25, 2005, derailment of a West Japan Railway Co. commuter train on the Fukuchiyama Line in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, that killed 107 people and injured 562. Prosecutors said on Jan. 25, 2012, they will not appeal against a Jan. 11, 2012, court verdict finding Masao Yamazaki, former president of the railway operator, not guilty of professional negligence.

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Japanese universities consider big change to academic year

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows students and others attending the University of Tokyo's entrance ceremony in Tokyo in April 2010. Results released Jan. 25, 2012, of a Kyodo News survey showed more than 40 percent of Japan's national universities, as well as many of the country's top private universities, will consider following the University of Tokyo's lead in switching the start of their academic year from spring to fall.

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide at press conference

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide speaks at a news conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Jan. 25, 2012. It was Hoshide's last press conference in Japan before the start in late May of a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

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Flowers laid at 2005 fatal train derailment site

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 25, 2012, shows flowers and other items offered at the site of a fatal train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, in 2005. The accident on West Japan Railway Co.'s Fukuchiyama Line claimed the lives of 107 people and injured 562 others.

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Annual wage talks start in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Business Federation Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura (R) speaks as Japan's annual round of wage negotiations started on Jan. 25, 2012. Yonekura and Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Nobuaki Koga met in Tokyo to discuss labor conditions for the year from April.

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Toyota Motor Kyushu new president Nihashi

FUKUOKA, Japan - Toyota Motor Kyushu Inc. President Iwao Nihashi speaks at his inaugural press conference in Miyawaka, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 25, 2012. Toyota Motor Kyushu is a manufacturing subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp.