World Cup 2026 – US: Dutch Fans March Through Kansas City Ahead of Match Against Tunisia

Netherlands fans marched through the streets of Kansas City ahead of their team's final World Cup group-stage match against Tunisia on Thursday, June 25.

Eurasian eagle-owl at Hokkaido zoo

Eurasian eagle-owl at Hokkaido zoo

Photo taken on June 4, 2025, shows a Eurasian eagle-owl at Kushiro city zoo in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Eurasian eagle-owl at Hokkaido zoo

Eurasian eagle-owl at Hokkaido zoo

Photo taken on June 4, 2025, shows a Eurasian eagle-owl at Kushiro city zoo in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Ural owl at Hokkaido zoo

Ural owl at Hokkaido zoo

Photo taken on June 5, 2025, shows a Ural owl at Kushiro city zoo in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Ural owl at Hokkaido zoo

Ural owl at Hokkaido zoo

Photo taken on June 4, 2025, shows a Ural owl at Kushiro city zoo in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Blakiston's fish owls at northern Japan zoo

Blakiston's fish owls at northern Japan zoo

A pair of Blakiston's fish owls perch on a branch at Kushiro city zoo in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 5, 2025.

Blakiston's fish owls at northern Japan zoo

Blakiston's fish owls at northern Japan zoo

A pair of Blakiston's fish owls perch on a branch at Kushiro city zoo in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 5, 2025.

Brown bears at northern Japan zoo

Brown bears at northern Japan zoo

Twin brown bears wait for cookies at Kushiro city zoo in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 5, 2025.

Brown bears at northern Japan zoo

Brown bears at northern Japan zoo

Twin brown bears wait for cookies at Kushiro city zoo in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 5, 2025.

Brown bears at northern Japan zoo

Brown bears at northern Japan zoo

Twin brown bears wait for cookies at Kushiro city zoo in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 5, 2025.

US: EF-1 Tornado Touches Down In Athens, AL, Leaving Devastating Damage

The National Weather Service in Huntsville has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in downtown Athens, Alabama, on Saturday night, December 28.

[Breaking News]Baby red-crowned crane

Hokkaido,Japan, May 22 Kyodo -Video taken on May 22, 2024, shows a baby red-crowned crane that hatched around May 6 at Kushiro City Crane Reserve in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.(Kyodo)

Baby red-crowned crane

Baby red-crowned crane

Photo taken on May 22, 2024, shows a baby red-crowned crane that hatched around May 6 at Kushiro City Crane Reserve in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Baby red-crowned crane

Baby red-crowned crane

Photo taken on May 22, 2024, shows a baby red-crowned crane that hatched around May 6 at Kushiro City Crane Reserve in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Baby red-crowned crane

Baby red-crowned crane

Photo taken on May 22, 2024, shows a baby red-crowned crane that hatched around May 6 at Kushiro City Crane Reserve in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Baby red-crowned crane

Baby red-crowned crane

Photo taken on May 22, 2024, shows a baby red-crowned crane that hatched around May 6 at Kushiro City Crane Reserve in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Baby red-crowned crane

Baby red-crowned crane

Photo taken on May 22, 2024, shows a baby red-crowned crane that hatched around May 6 at Kushiro City Crane Reserve in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Baby red-crowned crane

Baby red-crowned crane

Photo taken on May 22, 2024, shows a baby red-crowned crane that hatched around May 6 at Kushiro City Crane Reserve in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Suzuki meets with reporters

Suzuki meets with reporters

KUSHIRO, Japan - Takako Suzuki, who ran in the general election on the ticket of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, meets with reporters in the northeastern city of Kushiro on Dec. 15, 2014, a day after securing her lower house seat under the proportional representation system, although she was defeated in the single-seat electoral district.

Christmas tree lit at 'Santa Land' on Hokkaido

Christmas tree lit at 'Santa Land' on Hokkaido

KUSHIRO, Japan - A Christmas tree lighting ceremony is held Oct. 25, 2014, at a park in the town of Hiroo on Japan's northernmost main island Hokkaido. The town is the only place in Japan recognized as a "Santa Land" by the city government of Oslo.

People light candles in memory of poet Takuboku

People light candles in memory of poet Takuboku

KUSHIRO, Japan - People light ice candles in the city of Kushiro, Hokkaido, in memory of renowned Japanese poet Ishikawa Takuboku.

Hokkaido cranes to Taiwan

Hokkaido cranes to Taiwan

KUSHIRO, Japan - Local elementary school pupils sing during a ceremony in Kushiro, Hokkaido, northern Japan, held on Sept. 13, 2011, prior to the departure of a pair of red-crowned cranes to Taiwan. The city of Kushiro will lend the birds, a species designated as a special national natural treasure, to Taiwan for an indefinite period of time. Known as a symbol of longevity and conjugal love in Japan, the crane is also popular in Taiwan, which asked Kushiro in 2009 to donate some of the birds.

Fatal fall from Tokyo roller coaster

Fatal fall from Tokyo roller coaster

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Dome Corp. President Shinji Kushiro (L) bows during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2011, following the death of a man who fell from a roller coaster at the company's Tokyo Dome City Attractions amusement park.

Horses greet tourists at Japan airport

Horses greet tourists at Japan airport

KUSHIRO, Japan - A girl smiles while riding on a pony during a tourist event at Kushiro airport in Hokkaido on Nov. 23, 2009. A group of horse riding enthusiasts brought six horses to the airport in a bid to highlight the city's history of horse breeding.

Nemuro residents try to save historic link to Kunashiri

Nemuro residents try to save historic link to Kunashiri

KUSHIRO, Japan - This photo shows a former communications facility in Japan's easternmost city of Nemuro that linked, via an underwater cable, the city and Kunashiri Island from about a 100 years ago until the end of World War II. A movement is spreading to preserve the facility among second-generation former residents of Kunashiri Island, which was seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II.

Polar bear puts gas pipe over head at Kushiro zoo in north Japan

Polar bear puts gas pipe over head at Kushiro zoo in north Japan

Milk, a polar bear at the Kushiro City Zoo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, climbs out of a pool on Feb. 10, 2015, wearing a gas pipe over her head. Milk has become a popular attraction at the zoo as she sometimes walks upright like a human. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Polar bear plays with gas pipe at Kushiro zoo in northern Japan

Polar bear plays with gas pipe at Kushiro zoo in northern Japan

Milk, a polar bear at the Kushiro City Zoo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, plays with a gas pipe on Feb. 10, 2015. Milk has become a popular attraction at the zoo as she sometimes walks upright like a human. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Polar bear holds plastic container at Kushiro zoo in northern Japan

Polar bear holds plastic container at Kushiro zoo in northern Japan

Milk, a polar bear at the Kushiro City Zoo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, holds a plastic container on Feb. 11, 2015. Milk has become a popular attraction at the zoo as she sometimes walks upright like a human. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Man arrested after 1 stabbed to death, 3 injured in Hokkaido

Man arrested after 1 stabbed to death, 3 injured in Hokkaido

Photo taken June 21, 2016, shows the Aeon Kushiro-Showa shopping mall in the Hokkaido city of Kushiro, where a local man stabbed four women the same day, leaving one dead and three injured. The man in his 30s was arrested on the spot and has told police he wants his life to be over. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Man arrested after 1 stabbed to death, 3 injured in Hokkaido

Man arrested after 1 stabbed to death, 3 injured in Hokkaido

Photo taken June 21, 2016, shows the Aeon Kushiro-Showa shopping mall in the Hokkaido city of Kushiro, where a local man stabbed four women the same day, leaving one dead and three injured. The man in his 30s was arrested on the spot and has told police he wants his life to be over. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Data falsification cases involving Asahi Kasei unit

Data falsification cases involving Asahi Kasei unit

An official of the Kushiro municipal government explains the piling work for a public housing development for which data was falsified by an Asahi Kasei Corp. subsidiary, in the city on the northernmost Japan main island of Hokkaido on Nov. 2, 2015. The data falsification scandal involving Asahi Kasei Construction Materials Corp. has widened since the unit admitted in October to defective piling work and data falsification for a condominium building in Yokohama, near Tokyo, which has begun to tilt. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Builder fudged data for Hokkaido estate

Builder fudged data for Hokkaido estate

Photo taken Oct. 28, 2015, shows a public housing estate in the northeastern Japan city of Kushiro in Hokkaido. It was reported that the housing estate was involved in flawed groundwork data misuse by Asahi Kasei Construction Materials Corp., raising concerns that more projects involving the scandal-tainted company face similar problems. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Builder fudged data for Hokkaido estate, stoking fears of wider flaws

Builder fudged data for Hokkaido estate, stoking fears of wider flaws

A Hokkaido official explains the situation surrounding Asahi Kasei Construction Materials Corp.'s use of flawed groundwork data in the expansion of a public housing estate in Kushiro city in the early hours of Oct. 29, 2015. There are concerns that more projects involving the under-fire Tokyo construction company face similar problems. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

12th Ramsar conference held in Uruguay

12th Ramsar conference held in Uruguay

Photo taken June 2, 2015, in the Uruguayan city of Punta del Este shows the booth to introduce nature restoration projects at the Kushiro wetlands on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, the first Japanese site registered under the Ramsar Convention. The 12th conference of parties of the convention is being held in the South American country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Pop group member teaches citizens dancing as tourism ambassador

Pop group member teaches citizens dancing as tourism ambassador

Professional dancer Masaharu Maruyama, better known as Sam, of the Japanese pop music group TRF teaches dancing to citizens in Kushiro in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido on May 23, 2015, following his appointment earlier in the day as tourism ambassador for the city. ==Kyodo

Hokkaido construction firm president ventures into honey business

Hokkaido construction firm president ventures into honey business

Kenichi Dobashi, president of a construction company in Kushiro, Hokkaido Prefecture, checks on a slot from a bee box at his honey farm in the northern Japanese city on Sept. 4, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hokkaido cranes to Taiwan

Hokkaido cranes to Taiwan

KUSHIRO, Japan - Local elementary school pupils sing during a ceremony in Kushiro, Hokkaido, northern Japan, held on Sept. 13, 2011, prior to the departure of a pair of red-crowned cranes to Taiwan. The city of Kushiro will lend the birds, a species designated as a special national natural treasure, to Taiwan for an indefinite period of time. Known as a symbol of longevity and conjugal love in Japan, the crane is also popular in Taiwan, which asked Kushiro in 2009 to donate some of the birds. (Kyodo)

Fatal fall from Tokyo roller coaster

Fatal fall from Tokyo roller coaster

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Dome Corp. President Shinji Kushiro (L) bows during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2011, following the death of a man who fell from a roller coaster at the company's Tokyo Dome City Attractions amusement park. (Kyodo)

Commercial whaling in Japan

Commercial whaling in Japan

A minke whale is unloaded from a vessel at a port in the Hokkaido city of Kushiro, northern Japan, on Aug. 20, 2020. Japan resumed commercial whaling in 2019.

Commercial whaling in Japan

Commercial whaling in Japan

A minke whale is unloaded from a vessel at a port in the Hokkaido city of Kushiro, northern Japan, on Aug. 20, 2020. Japan resumed commercial whaling in 2019.

Commercial whaling

Commercial whaling

A whaling vessel departs a port in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Sept. 2, 2019, to catch minke whales in waters off the northern Japan city. Japan resumed commercial whaling on July 1 after a 31-year hiatus, following the country's withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission at the end of June. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Combat vehicles run on public road

Combat vehicles run on public road

A combat vehicle of the Ground Self-Defense Force travels on a public road in the northern Japan city of Kushiro on June 29, 2017. The vehicle, together with two other cars, was involved in a 90-kilometer training run from June 28 to 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Combat vehicles run on public road

Combat vehicles run on public road

A combat vehicle of the Ground Self-Defense Force travels on a public road in the northern Japan city of Kushiro on June 29, 2017. The vehicle, together with two other cars, was involved in a 90-kilometer training run from June 28 to 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Horses greet tourists at Japan airport

Horses greet tourists at Japan airport

KUSHIRO, Japan - A girl smiles while riding on a pony during a tourist event at Kushiro airport in Hokkaido on Nov. 23, 2009. A group of horse riding enthusiasts brought six horses to the airport in a bid to highlight the city's history of horse breeding. (Kyodo)

Nemuro residents try to save historic link to Kunashiri

Nemuro residents try to save historic link to Kunashiri

KUSHIRO, Japan - This photo shows a former communications facility in Japan's easternmost city of Nemuro that linked, via an underwater cable, the city and Kunashiri Island from about a 100 years ago until the end of World War II. A movement is spreading to preserve the facility among second-generation former residents of Kunashiri Island, which was seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II.