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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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Folding screen picture drawn by Takehiko Inoue

KYOTO, Japan, Jan. 16 Kyodo - A folding screen picture drawn by manga artist Takehiko Inoue, titled "Shinran," the founder of the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism, is shown to the press at Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on March 26, 2011.

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Toyota Aqua hybrid compact car

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s Aqua hybrid compact car. The automaker said Feb. 1, 2012, the number of orders placed for the Aqua as of Jan. 31, 2012, was about 120,000, greatly exceeding its sales goal of 12,000 units a month. The car was released on Dec. 26, 2011.

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Decontamination work in Fukushima

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 4, 2011, shows workers wearing protective suits using a high-pressure water sprayer to wash the premises of the Okuma town office in Fukushima Prefecture to reduce radioactive materials in the wake of the nuclear crisis. The Environment Ministry said Jan. 26, 2012, it plans to complete decontamination activities in part of the evacuation zones around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by March 2014.

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Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in October 2011 shows Narita airport near Tokyo. Its operator, Narita International Airport Corp., said Jan. 26, 2012, that the combined number of Japanese passengers using the airport for outbound and inbound international flights stood at about 1,276,000 in December, marking the first year-on-year rise after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Firebombs tossed at Japan Embassy in Seoul

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Dec. 26, 2011, shows the charred lower part of a gate at the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. A man arrested after tossing firebombs at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Jan. 8, 2012, said he set a fire to the shrine gate in Tokyo, but that claim is yet to be confirmed.

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Hosokawa clan's artifacts

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa stands in front of some artifacts from the Eisei-Bunko Museum, which holds treasures of the Hosokawa clan, during a preview on Dec. 26, 2011, of a special exhibition to be held from Jan. 1, 2012, through March 4, 2012, at Kyushu National Museum in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Hosokawa is the 18th head of the clan that has lasted some 700 years and ruled the Kumamoto domain in feudal Japan.

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Senegalese singer N'Dour

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 2000 shows prominent Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour. According to Reuters, N'Dour announced on Nov. 26, 2011, the cancellation of concert dates from Jan. 2, 2012, as he would be entering politics, but did not say whether he would run in Senegal's presidential election slated for February.

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Protesters in Cairo

TOKYO, Japan - Protesters gather in a major street in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Jan. 26, 2011, demanding an end to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - People demonstrate in central Cairo on Jan. 26, 2011.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Police officers gather at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Jan. 26, 2011, after a deadly crackdown on antigovernment demonstrators.

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Prince Akishino, wife in Costa Rica

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Japanese Prince Akishino (C) and his wife Princess Kiko (L) speak with Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla during their meeting in San Jose's presidential office on Jan. 26, 2011.

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Bird flu outbreak in Japan

TOYOHASHI, Japan - An Aichi prefectural government worker in a protective suit disinfects a poultry farm in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, on Jan. 26, 2011, after suspected bird flu infections were found at the farm.

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Diet interpellations

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan asks for additional remarks as he responded to interpellations during a House of Representatives plenary session at the Diet building in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2011. Kan said he has no plans to dissolve the lower house for a snap election, dismissing growing calls to do so from the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - People demonstrate in central Cairo on Jan. 26, 2011.

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Mitsubishi Tanabe recalls drugs

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. President Michihiro Tsuchiya (2nd from L) bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2011. The drugmaker initiated a voluntary recall of three injection solution products that one of its subsidiaries may have shipped without conducting quality tests.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Police officers gather at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Jan. 26, 2011, after a deadly crackdown on antigovernment demonstrators.

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Decade after heroic death

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean woman Shin Yoon Chan (L) places flowers on a platform at JR Shin-Okubo Station in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2011, where her son Lee Su Hyon was killed by a train as he tried to rescue a stranger 10 years ago. On the right is Lee's father Lee Song Dae. Lee Su Hyon was 26 and studying at a Japanese language school when he was killed along with 47-year-old photographer Shiro Sekine, who also attempted to save a drunken man who had fallen off the platform on Jan. 26, 2001. The drunken man also died. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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China Embassy in Japan spokesman

TOKYO, Japan - Deng Wei, the spokesman of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, holds the first monthly press conference at the embassy on Jan. 26, 2011.

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Steinberg in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg (R) answers reporters' questions after meeting South Korean foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan in Seoul on Jan. 26, 2011. Steinberg called on North Korea to halt its provocative behavior and to hold ''meaningful dialogue'' on its denuclearization.

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Joint sake sales promotion

OSAKA, Japan - Members of a joint sake sales promotion project attend a press conference in Osaka on Jan. 26, 2011. Hakutsuru Sake Brewing Co. and 10 other long-established brewers in the sake-producing areas of Nada, Fushimi and Itami in western Japan said they have launched a joint project to stimulate falling sake consumption.

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Toyota to recall 1.2 million cars

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo shows the Noah model by Toyota Motor Corp. The automaker reported to the transport ministry on Jan. 26, 2011, that it has decided to recall a total of 1,202,800 units of the Noah, the RAV4L and other models due to possible leakage of fuel.

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Bird flu outbreak in Japan

TOYOHASHI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 26, 2011, shows a poultry farm in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, where suspected bird flu infections were found.

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Mitsubishi Tanabe recalls drugs

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. President Michihiro Tsuchiya (front) bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2011. The drugmaker initiated a voluntary recall of three injection solution products that one of its subsidiaries may have shipped without conducting quality tests.

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Steinberg in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg answers reporters' questions after meeting South Korean foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan in Seoul on Jan. 26, 2011. Steinberg called on North Korea to halt its provocative behavior and to hold ''meaningful dialogue'' on its denuclearization.

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Court rules election in 'state of unconstitutionality'

MATSUE, Japan - Plaintiffs and lawyers contesting the disparity in the weight of votes in the July 2009 House of Councillors election head to the Matsue branch of the Hiroshima High Court on Jan. 26, 2011, carrying signs reading ''0.8 vote is wrong.'' The court ruled the same day that the fivefold disparity in the weight of votes in the election was in a ''state of unconstitutionality.''

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Steinberg in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan (R) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg meet in Seoul on Jan. 26, 2011.

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Ex-sumo wrestlers arrested over gambling

OSAKA, Japan - Investigators enter the residence of the mother of former sumo wrestler Sadahide Furuichi in Katano, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 26, 2011. The police arrested Furuichi and his mother, Yoneko, as well as two other former wrestlers on suspicion of organizing illegal baseball gambling as part of an investigation into a major scandal that has tarnished the traditional sport.

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Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma unit inspected

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 26, 2011, shows a plant of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Factory Ltd., a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp., in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture. Government officials inspected the plant the same day, suspecting it shipped out drugs without checking their quality.

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Police battling against crime syndicate

TOKYO, Japan - The National Police Agency holds a meeting on countermeasures against Japan's largest crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, and its largest gang, Kodokai, on Jan. 26, 2011, at the agency in Tokyo. The agency ordered police officials from across Japan in charge of investigating organized crimes to give the syndicate a decisive blow through investigation before the release in April from prison of its boss Kenichi Shinoda, commonly known as Shinobu Tsukasa.

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Steinberg in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan (L) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg shake hands before their meeting in Seoul on Jan. 26, 2011.

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Rush hour traffic in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Passenger cars and buses pack a highway during the morning rush hour in Beijing on Jan. 26, 2011.

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Seal popping in at Hokkaido zoo

ASAHIKAWA, Japan -A harbor seal is seen popping out of icy waters at Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Jan. 26, 2011. The seals, found in northern waters such as the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea, are a popular attraction at the zoo, which prepared an icy pool to create an environment close to their natural habitats.

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Suspect in Briton's murder to release book

NAHA, Japan - Photo, taken on Jan. 24, 2011, shows the remains of a furnace found inside a concrete building on the remote island of Oha in Okinawa in which Tatsuya Ichihashi, the man indicted in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan, is believed to have temporarily holed up during his 31-month fugitive life. Ichihashi will publish a book about his life as a fugitive on Jan. 26, 2011, in Japan.

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Suspect in Briton's murder to release book

NAHA, Japan - Photo, taken on Jan. 24, 2011, shows the inside of a concrete building on the remote island of Oha in Okinawa in which Tatsuya Ichihashi, the man indicted in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan, is believed to have temporarily holed up during his 31-month fugitive life. Ichihashi will publish a book about his life as a fugitive on Jan. 26, 2011, in Japan.

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Suspect in Briton's murder to release book

NAHA, Japan - Photo, taken on Jan. 24, 2011, shows a concrete building on the remote island of Oha in Okinawa in which Tatsuya Ichihashi, the man indicted in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan, is believed to have temporarily holed up during his 31-month fugitive life. Ichihashi will publish a book about his life as a fugitive on Jan. 26, 2011, in Japan.

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Suspect in Briton's murder to release book

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a book penned by Tatsuya Ichihashi, the man indicted in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan. The book, to be released Jan. 26, 2011, in Japan, is about how he spent his two-year-and-seven-month life as a fugitive up until his arrest in November 2009.

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People in Abyei, Sudan

ABYEI, Sudan - A member of United Missions in Sudan armed with a gun watches over an outdoor market in the oil-rich Abeyi region on Dec. 26, 2010. Infrastructures in the southern Sudan area have not been developed even since the cease-fire in the civil war brought about by the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Abyei's self-determination referendum on Jan. 9, 2011, is expected to be delayed.

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People in Abyei, Sudan

ABYEI, Sudan - Some people in Sudan's oil-rich Abeyi region walk past traditional-style housing on Dec. 26, 2010. Infrastructures in the southern Sudan area have not been developed even since the cease-fire in the civil war brought about by the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Abyei's self-determination referendum on Jan. 9, 2011, is expected to be delayed.