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Pakistan's Malala, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2013 shows Malala Yousafzai (R), a Pakistani teenager and education activist, shaking hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the U.N. headquarters in New York. On Oct. 10, 2014, Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Indian children's rights advocate Kailash Satyarthi.

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Pakistan's Malala, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teenager and education activist, delivers a speech at U.N. headquarters in New York in this file photo taken in July 2013. On Oct. 10, 2014, Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Indian children's rights advocate Kailash Satyarthi.

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Top court voids inheritance clause

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japan's Supreme Court in Tokyo holding a hearing on July 10, 2013, on a lawsuit about a Civil Code clause granting less inheritance to children born out of wedlock compared to siblings of married parents. The top court ruled the clause is unconstitutional on Sept. 4, 2013.

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Girl's dream to become designer lives on in handkerchiefs

IWAKI, Japan - Takashi Suzuki (R), father of Himeka who was killed at age 10 by the tsunami triggered by the March 2011 earthquake, takes a walk along the coast in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, together with one of her two younger brothers on July 10, 2013. In the back is the Shioyasaki lighthouse overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the subject of an award-winning painting by Himeka.

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Girl's dream to become designer lives on in handkerchiefs

IWAKI, Japan - Takashi Suzuki (R), father of Himeka who was killed at age 10 by the tsunami triggered by the March 2011 earthquake, takes a walk along the coast in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, together with one of her two younger brothers on July 10, 2013. In the back is the Shioyasaki lighthouse overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the subject of an award-winning painting by Himeka.

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Preservation of A-bomb heritage growing more difficult

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Shinichiro Kirihara, president of a container materials factory in Hiroshima, speaks about his decision to tear down a flat brick building registered with the city office as remains of the atomic bombing. Kirihara is standing in front of a part of the brick wall, retained as a reminder of the bombing, on the premises of the plant on July 10, 2013.

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New USJ attraction

OSAKA, Japan - Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, western Japan, shows reporters its new attraction Biohazard the Real on July 18, 2013, ahead of its opening the following day. The attraction will run through Nov. 10, 2013.

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Animation film director Miyazaki to release new movie

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese animation film director Hayao Miyazaki gives an interview with Kyodo News on July 10, 2013 in Tokyo ahead of the July 20 release in Japan of his new work, "Kaze Tachinu" (The Wind Has Risen).

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Animation film director Miyazaki to release new movie

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese animation film director Hayao Miyazaki stands in front of his studio in Koganei, Tokyo, on July 10, 2013.

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'Famicom' turns 30 years old

KYOTO, Japan - Masayuki Uemura, adviser for Nintendo Co. who developed "Famicom," or the Family Computer video game console, holds "Donkey Kong" software that can be played on the console during an interview with Kyodo News in Kyoto on July 10, 2013. The Japanese game company shipped 61.91 million units of the console since launching it 30 years ago on July 15, 1983.

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South Korean golfer Ku dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in 2003 shows South Korean golfer Ku Ok Hee. Ku, a winner of 23 titles on the Japan LPGA Tour, died July 10, 2013, after a heart attack at her home in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, the JLPGA said July 12. She was 56.

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Nigerian president in China

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (L) shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 10, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Sprint Nextel shop

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows a shop in New York operated by Sprint Nextel Corp., the third biggest U.S. cellphone company, on July 10, 2013. Softbank Corp. said the same day it has completed the $21.6 billion (about 1.8 trillion yen) acquisition of Sprint Nextel, giving birth to the world's third largest mobile phone carrier.

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Luxembourg prime minister

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who expressed an intention on July 10, 2013, to step down.

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Darvish on DL

BALTIMORE, United States - Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish (C) watches a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 10, 2013. The Rangers said the same day Darvish has been placed on the 15-day disabled list due to a strained trapezius muscle.

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Japanese astronaut Yui

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui during an interview in October 2012. On July 10, 2013, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration revealed the members of a space expedition team for a voyage in 2015, saying American Kjell Lindgren, Yui and Oleg Kononenko of Russia will leave Earth in June 2015 and stay at the International Space Station for about six months.

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N. Korean envoy reiterates call for talks with U.S.

GENEVA, Switzerland - So Se Pyong, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, holds a press conference at the North Korean diplomatic office in Geneva on July 10, 2013. So repeated a call on the United States to hold a dialogue with Pyongyang and said the North will never give up its nuclear weapons unless Washington abandons its hostile policy.

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U.S. secretary of state

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington on July 10, 2013.

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Ruling on wartime labor

SEOUL, South Korea - Yeo Woon Taek (L), one of the plaintiffs in a wartime labor lawsuit, answers a reporter's question in front of the Seoul High Court on July 10, 2013. The court ordered the same day Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay compensation to four South Koreans who were forced to work at the company's steel mill in Japan during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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Top court convenes grand bench

TOKYO, Japan - Grand bench of the Supreme Court convenes in Tokyo on July 10, 2013, to consider lawsuits over a Civil Code provision sanctioning the awarding of less inheritance to illegitimate children. The top court convenes the grand bench when it plans to change its interpretation of the Constitution or reverse a legal precedent.

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Mt. Sakurajima

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Mt. Sakurajima, an active volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, erupts on July 10, 2013.

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Electric scooter synchronizing with smartphone

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Toru Tokushige, president of Terra Motors Corp., standing by the A4000i scooter unveiled by the Japanese electric motorcycle maker in Tokyo on July 10, 2013. The new scooter can synchronize with Apple Inc.'s iPhone smartphone to enable the rider to record such data as travel distance, routes and remaining battery power.

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Visit to inter-Korean industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Photo taken at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on July 10, 2013, shows vehicles carrying representatives of South Korean companies returning from a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong. They visited the zone for maintenance checks on their facilities and to retrieve finished products and raw materials stuck in the zone for nearly three months.

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Visit to inter-Korean industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Photo shows vehicles at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on July 10, 2013, carrying representatives of South Korean companies returning from a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong. They visited the zone for maintenance checks on their facilities and to retrieve finished products and raw materials stuck in the zone for nearly three months.

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Ruling on wartime labor

SEOUL, South Korea - Yeo Woon Taek (2nd from R), one of the plaintiffs in a wartime labor lawsuit, raises his fist with supporters outside the Seoul High Court on July 10, 2013. The court ordered later the same day Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay compensation to four South Koreans who were forced to work at the company's steel mill in Japan during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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Ruling on wartime labor

SEOUL, South Korea - Yeo Woon Taek, one of the plaintiffs in a wartime labor lawsuit, speaks at a press conference on July 10, 2013. The Seoul High Court ordered the same day Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay compensation to four South Koreans who were forced to work at the company's steel mill in Japan during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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Heat wave in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Girls hold shaved ice under the blazing sun in Osaka on July 10, 2013.

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Heat wave in Japan

KOGA, Japan - Photo taken July 10, 2013, in Koga, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, shows people listening -- under the blazing sun -- to a stump speech by a candidate running in the July 21 upper house election.

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Sumo wrestler in Ramadan

NAGOYA, Japan - Egyptian sumo wrestler Osunaarashi (front) beats Sotairyu (back) during a bout at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya on July 10, 2013. It was Osunaarashi's first sumo match since he began observing this year's Ramadan.

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Expensive watch

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Evolution 3-1, a Franck Muller wrist watch that is on sale for 157.5 million yen ($1.6 million) at the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Nihonbashi in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on July 10, 2013.

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Ceremony for Honda's new plant in Thailand

PRACHINBURI, Thailand - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (R) and Honda Motor Co. President Takanobu Ito attend a groundbreaking ceremony for Honda's new plant in Prachinburi Province, eastern Thailand, on July 10, 2013.

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Ceremony for Honda's new plant in Thailand

PRACHINBURI, Thailand - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (L) and Honda Motor Co. President Takanobu Ito attend a groundbreaking ceremony for Honda's new plant in Prachinburi Province, eastern Thailand, on July 10, 2013.

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Sumo wrestler in Ramadan

NAGOYA, Japan - Egyptian sumo wrestler Osunaarashi (L) beats Sotairyu during a bout at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya on July 10, 2013. It was Osunaarashi's first sumo match since he began observing this year's Ramadan.

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Ceremony for Honda's new plant in Thailand

PRACHINBURI, Thailand - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for Honda Motor Co.'s new plant in Prachinburi Province, eastern Thailand, on July 10, 2013.

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Inter-Korean industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Vehicles are pictured at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on July 10, 2013, carrying representatives of South Korean companies operating in a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong. The representatives plan to visit the industrial zone for maintenance checks on their facilities and to retrieve finished products and raw materials stuck in the zone for nearly three months.