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Ex-Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk gives an interview in Kyiv, Ukraine, in January, 2024.

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Ex-Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk gives an interview in Kyiv, Ukraine, in January, 2024.

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Japan's Nishimura to ref opening game of World Cup

TOKYO, Japan - In this file photo taken in January, 2014, in Tokyo, three Japanese soccer referees -- (from L to right) Toshiyuki Nagi, Yuichi Nishimura and Toru Sagara pose for photos. Soccer's World governing body FIFA announced on June 10 that Nishimura will referee the opening match of the World Cup between host Brazil and Croatia on June 12 while compatriots Nagi and Sagara will assist him.

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Japan chef wins bronze for Japan

NAGANO, Japan - Noriyuki Hamada holds the bronze statue he won in the Bocuse d'Or French cooking competition for chefs, which took place in Lyon, France, in late January, on Feb. 22, 2013 at the French restaurant Yukawatan at Hotel Bleston Court in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. Hamada led Japan to its first medal in what is regarded as the world's top culinary competition.

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Leader of ex-rebel group in Aceh dies at 84

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Teungku Muhammad Hasan di Tiro (file photo taken in January, 2003), the founder of a former rebel group that fought for almost three decades for independence of the once-restive Indonesian province of Aceh, died on June 3 from complications of various illnesses. He was 84. Tiro, a descendent of the last sultan of Aceh and a grandson of Indonesian independence hero Teuku Cik di Tiro, established the now-dissolved Free Aceh Movement, or GAM, on Dec. 4, 1976, to fight for Aceh's independence.

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'Bengawan Solo' composer Gesang dies at age 92

TOKYO, Japan - Renowned Indonesian singer-songwriter from Gesang Martohartono (file photo taken in January, 1980), who composed the famous song ''Bengawan Solo'' (Solo River), died on May 20, 2010, in his birthplace of Surakarta (Solo), in central Java. He was 92.

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Former hitting great Yamauchi dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese baseball hitting great Kazuhiro Yamauchi (file photo taken in January, 2002 )died of liver failure in a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 2. He was 76. Yamauchi led the Pacific League in batting average once, home runs twice and RBIs four times between 1954 and 1961.

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Popular children's writer Kenjiro Haitani dies at 72

TOKYO, Japan - Kenjiro Haitani (file photo taken in January, 2005), a popular author who cheered up children through his books including ''A Rabbit's Eyes,'' dies of esophageal cancer at a hospital in Shizuoka Prefecture on Nov. 23. He was 72.

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Nigel Fisher

TOKYO, Japan - Nigel Fisher, special representative for the U.N. Children's Fund's (UNICEF) Humanitarian Operations for Afghan Children, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo during his visit to Japan in January, 2002

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Shoichi YOKOI

Shown in the photo was Shoichi YOKOI, a former Japanese soldier who made a dramatic return to Japan on Jan. 24, 1972, after living in the jungles of Guam for more than 26 years without knowing World War II had ended. He died of a heart attack at a Nagoya hospital on Sept. 22, 1997. He was 82. He said upon arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport that he felt ''ashamed to come home'' alive, 31 years after he left Japan for fighting in the war. (Photo was taken in January, 1972 when he was rescured in Guam.)