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French Interior Minister At the Presentation of A Security Procedure Before New Year's Eve - Domont

Prefect of the Val d'Oise department Philippe Court shows to France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (L) a checkpoint map ahead of New Year's Eve, in Domont, a suburb of Paris, on December 31, 2025. Photo by Alain JOCARD/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Laureates of Nobel Prize in chemistry

Co-winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry -- Richard Robson (L), a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia, Susumu Kitagawa (C), a professor at Kyoto University in Japan, and Omar Yaghi, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States -- attend a joint press conference in Stockholm on Dec. 7, 2025, ahead of the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Nobel laureate Sakaguchi in Stockholm

Shimon Sakaguchi (L), a professor at the University of Osaka and a co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, poses with U.S. laureates Mary E. Brunkow (R) and Fred Ramsdell after they gave their respective lectures in Stockholm on Dec. 7, 2025, ahead of the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Nobel laureate Sakaguchi in Stockholm

Shimon Sakaguchi (L), a professor at the University of Osaka and a co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, attends a press conference in Stockholm on Dec. 6, 2025, together with U.S. laureates Mary E. Brunkow (C) and Fred Ramsdell ahead of the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Imperial conferment of decorations

Taku Yamamoto (3rd from L), a former House of Representatives lawmaker, is conferred the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan's Emperor Naruhito during a ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2025. The honoree, whose real surname is Takaichi, is the husband of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (2nd from L). (Pool photo)

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CALCIO - FIFA Mondiali - U17 Women - Final - North Korea vs netherlands

#2 Yun Y. Jin A (Defender) of Korea DPR U-17 contrast with #7 Pennock L. A. (Forward) of Netherlands U-17 is in action during the FIFA U17 Women's World Cup Morocco 2025, 1st - 2nd place match between Korea DOR and Netherlands in Rabat, Morocco, on November 8, 2025, at the Olympic Stadium

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

Maebashi city assembly members hand Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa (far L) a written request urging her to decide whether to continue serving after an allegation of an affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site, at the city hall in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 3, 2025.

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Novel laureate Kitagawa

Photo taken at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2025, shows Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) holding online talks with Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa (L) a day after he was named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025.

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Nobel Prize in medicine winner Sakaguchi

Combined photo shows Shimon Sakaguchi (L), a distinguished professor at Osaka University, in Osaka in western Japan, and Yoshinori Ohsumi, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2016, in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, speaking on the phone after Sakaguchi was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two American scientists the previous night for their "groundbreaking" discoveries on how the immune system is kept in check, on Oct. 6, 2025.

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Baseball: Giants' Maru hits for cycle

Combined photo shows Yoshihiro Maru of the Yomiuri Giants hitting (from L) a two-run home run in the first inning, a single in the third inning, a double in the fifth inning and an RBI triple in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Yakult Swallows at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Aug. 19, 2025. Maru became the 72nd player to hit for the cycle in Nippon Professional Baseball history.

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Baseball: Reds vs. Dodgers

V (L), a member of the K-pop band BTS, chats with Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers as they perform as pitcher and catcher, respectively, for his ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Aug. 25, 2025.

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Baseball: Reds vs. Dodgers

V (L), a member of the K-pop band BTS, shakes hands with Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers as they perform as pitcher and catcher, respectively, in his ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Aug. 25, 2025.

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Baseball: Reds vs. Dodgers

V (L), a member of the K-pop band BTS, hugs Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers as they perform as pitcher and catcher, respectively, in his ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Aug. 25, 2025.

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Baseball: Reds vs. Dodgers

V (L), a member of the K-pop band BTS, shakes hands with Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts after throwing the ceremonial first pitch ahead of a baseball game between the Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Aug. 25, 2025.

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Baseball: Reds vs. Dodgers

V (L), a member of the K-pop band BTS, poses with Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani ahead of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds in Los Angeles on Aug. 25, 2025.

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Peace event at World Exposition in Osaka

Hiroshi Kanamoto (far L), a representative director of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, talks about his experience in Hiroshima during a peace event at the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 12, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Historic anti-nuke vessel in San Francisco

Steve Buck (R), captain of the Golden Rule anti-nuclear protest vessel, and Gerry Condon (L), a Vietnam-era veteran and senior member of Veterans for Peace, stand in front of the boat in San Francisco on Aug. 5, 2025. The 10-meter-long wooden ketch is famous for attempting to sail into the Marshall Islands in 1958 to stop U.S. nuclear bomb testing.

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Athletics: Shimizu sets U-18 world record

Sorato Shimizu (far L), a student at Seiryo High School, wins the men's 100 meters final at Japan's inter high school athletic meeting en route to winning the event in an under-18 world record of 10.00 seconds at Hotstaff Field Hiroshima in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on July 26, 2025. (For editorial use only)

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Athletics: Shimizu sets U-18 world record

Sorato Shimizu (L), a student at Seiryo High School, runs in the men's 100 meters final at Japan's inter high school athletic meeting en route to winning the event in an under-18 world record of 10.00 seconds at Hotstaff Field Hiroshima in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on July 26, 2025. (For editorial use only)

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Athletics: Shimizu sets U-18 world record

Sorato Shimizu (far L), a student at Seiryo High School, runs in the men's 100 meters preliminary round at Japan's inter high school athletic meeting at Hotstaff Field Hiroshima in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on July 26, 2025. He later won the 100 meters gold in an under-18 world record of 10.00 seconds. (For editorial use only)

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Merz Macron Starmer and Tusk in Kiev for Ukraine Ceasefire Talk

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (3rdR), France's President Emmanuel Macron (5thR) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (6thR) arrive to visit the Wall of Heroes sof the Nation (L), a memorial wall of fallen Ukrainian servicemen, in Kyiv on May 10, 2025, after a meeting of European leaders in the Ukrainian capital, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv's allies pressed Russia on May 10 to accept a 30-day unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine from May 12, 2025 threatening Moscow with coordinated sanctions if it did not agree to the demand. The ultimatum came during a joint press conference in Kyiv attended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of France, Germany, the UK and Poland. Photo by Ludovic Marin/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Shakhtar and Dynamo play to 2-2 draw in Lviv

Yaroslav Stas (L), a junior sergeant of Ukraines 121st Territorial Defence Brigade, and 10-year-old volunteer Serhii Moroz perform the national anthem before the 2024/25 Ukrainian Premier League Matchday 26 game between FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Shakhtar Donetsk at the Arena Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine, on April 27, 2025. (Photo by Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform)

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Shakhtar and Dynamo play to 2-2 draw in Lviv

Yaroslav Stas (L), a junior sergeant of Ukraines 121st Territorial Defence Brigade, and 10-year-old volunteer Serhii Moroz perform the national anthem before the 2024/25 Ukrainian Premier League Matchday 26 game between FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Shakhtar Donetsk at the Arena Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine, on April 27, 2025. (Photo by Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform)

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Debugging Humanoid Robots - China

He Qi (2nd L), a member of the R&D team of Wuhan Glory Road Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., debugs the humanoid robot at the company in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, February 24, 2025. Recently, the R&D team of Wuhan Glory Road Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. has been fine-tuning the strength and dynamic balance of a humanoid robot from the "Laborer" series at the robotics laboratory. Standing 1.8 meters tall and weighing 95 kilograms, this robot utilizes a self-developed motion control algorithm, enabling it to carry loads of 40 to 60 kilograms and walk with straight legs. Photo by Xinhua/Du Zixuan/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Oldest Short-Tailed Bird Fossil Discovered - China

Wang Min (L), a researcher with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Chen Runsheng, a professor-level senior engineer of Fujian Institute of Geological Survey (FIGS), poses for a photo at the FIGS, in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, on February 11, 2025. Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's Fujian Province. This suggests that birds might have originated earlier than previously thought. The fossilized bird Baminornis zhenghensis was discovered in Zhenghe County, Fujian Province. Its short tail ends in a compound bone called the pygostyle, a feature uniquely present in modern birds. This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period, 20 million years earlier than previously known. The study, conducted by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) and t

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Ex-Ohtani interpreter gets 4 yrs, 9 months in prison

Ippei Mizuhara (L), a former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, arrives at a federal district court in Santa Ana, California, on Feb. 6, 2025. The 40-year-old was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison in connection with the theft of nearly $17 million from the baseball player.

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U.S. Baseball Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki (L), a new member of the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame, receives a bouquet of flowers from former long-distance runner Kayoko Fukushi during an event in Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2025.

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Foreign Students Studying in China

QINGDAO, CHINA - JANUARY 12, 2025 - Yu Huilin (L), a college student, explains the process of making silk figurine to foreign students at Shandong University of Science and Technology on Jan 12, 2025.

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Hidankyo representative in Hiroshima

Toshiyuki Mimaki (L), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, receives a flower bouquet from Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the city government office in Hiroshima on Dec. 20, 2024, following his return from Norway to attend the award ceremony.

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Hidankyo representative in Hiroshima

Toshiyuki Mimaki (L), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, meets Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the city government office in Hiroshima on Dec. 20, 2024, following his return from Norway to attend the award ceremony.

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Petition to bring back those abducted to N. Korea

Hitomi Soga (far L), a Japanese woman who was abducted by North Korea in 1978 before being repatriated in 2002, collects signatures in Sado in Niigata Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2024, for a petition calling for the return of the remaining abductees, including her mother Miyoshi, who was kidnapped with her.

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Petition to bring back those abducted to N. Korea

Hitomi Soga (L), a Japanese woman who was abducted by North Korea in 1978 before being repatriated in 2002, collects signatures in Sado in Niigata Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2024, for a petition calling for the return of the remaining abductees, including her mother Miyoshi, who was kidnapped with her.

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China Mourns Nanjing Massacre Victims

Liu Minsheng (front L), a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, arrives to attend the 11th national memorial ceremony for the Nanjing Massacre victims held at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, December 13, 2024. Photo by Ji Chunpeng/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A-bomb survivor Ogura in Norway

Keiko Ogura (L), a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, speaks about her experiences at a junior high school in a municipality in the greater Oslo region, Norway, on Dec. 12, 2024.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka (far L), a co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, attends an event to celebrate the group's winning of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo hosted by local children on Dec. 10, 2024. The award ceremony was held in Oslo later in the day.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka (L), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, attends a press conference on Dec. 9, 2024, in Oslo, Norway, before the award ceremony on Dec. 10. Sitting next to him is Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka (L), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, attends a press conference on Dec. 9, 2024, in Oslo, Norway, before the award ceremony on Dec. 10. Sitting next to him is Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka (L), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, attends a press conference on Dec. 9, 2024, in Oslo, Norway, before the award ceremony on Dec. 10. Sitting next to him is Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka (L), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, shakes hands with Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, after attending a press conference on Dec. 9, 2024, in Oslo, Norway, ahead of the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka (L), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, shakes hands with Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, after attending a press conference on Dec. 9, 2024, in Oslo, Norway, ahead of the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka (L), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks during a press conference on Dec. 9, 2024, in Oslo, Norway, before the award ceremony on Dec. 10. Sitting next to him is Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka (2nd from L), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, attends a press conference on Dec. 9, 2024, in Oslo, Norway, before the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Syrians Refugees Return Home - Homs

Mohammad al-Khalif (5th L), a Syrian fleeing to Lebanon with his family in 2012, is seen with his children and elderly parents in his war-damaged apartment in Homs, central Syria, on November 14, 2024. According to UN data, more than 400,000 Syrian refugees had returned from Lebanon to Syria as of Sept. 23. For al-Khalif, Alloush and their fellow Syrian returnees, the path to rebuilding lives in a war-torn homeland remains fraught with obstacles. Photo by Monsef Memari/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Syrians Refugees Return Home - Homs

Mohammad al-Khalif (3rd L), a Syrian fleeing to Lebanon with his family in 2012, is seen with his children outside his war-damaged apartment in Homs, central Syria, on November 14, 2024. According to UN data, more than 400,000 Syrian refugees had returned from Lebanon to Syria as of Sept. 23. For al-Khalif, Alloush and their fellow Syrian returnees, the path to rebuilding lives in a war-torn homeland remains fraught with obstacles. Photo by Monsef Memari/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Embassy of Japan in Chile delivers donation for project in educa

SANTIAGO, CHILE - NOVEMBER 22: Ambassador of Japan in Chile Mrs. ITO Takako (R), receives from the Executive Director of the Almirante Carlos Condell Foundation Mr. Julio Leiva Molina (L), a replica of the bell of the corvette Esmeralda, the only warship built as such for the Navy of Chile at the end of the signing of the donation contract within the framework of the "Assistance for Community Projects" - "APC" 2024 between the diplomatic mission and the Almirante Carlos Condell Foundation, a ceremony held at the residence of the Embassy of Japan in Chile on November 22, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Embassy of Japan in Chile delivers donation for project in educa

SANTIAGO, CHILE - NOVEMBER 22: Ambassador of Japan in Chile Mrs. ITO Takako (R), receives from the Executive Director of the Almirante Carlos Condell Foundation Mr. Julio Leiva Molina (L), a replica of the bell of the corvette Esmeralda, the only warship built as such for the Navy of Chile at the end of the signing of the donation contract within the framework of the "Assistance for Community Projects" - "APC" 2024 between the diplomatic mission and the Almirante Carlos Condell Foundation, a ceremony held at the residence of the Embassy of Japan in Chile on November 22, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Japan imperial couple at museum

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are guided by Naoko Yamazaki(L) , a former Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut, at the Gifu Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, on Oct. 15, 2024.

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Ex-LDP secretary general Nikai in Beijing

Toshihiro Nikai (L), a heavyweight in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party who is leading a cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers, holds talks with China's top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing on Aug. 28, 2024.

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Ex-member of Japanese biological warfare unit in China

Hideo Shimizu (L), a former member of the Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731, which is thought to have undertaken covert biological and chemical warfare research in China during World War II, speaks to the head (R) of a Chinese exhibition hall on the unit as he visits the former site of its headquarters in Harbin, northeastern China, on Aug. 13, 2024.

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Ex-member of Japanese biological warfare unit in China

Hideo Shimizu (front, L), a former member of the Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731, which is thought to have undertaken covert biological and chemical warfare research in China during World War II, prays in front of a cenotaph dedicated to peace at the former site of the unit headquarters in Harbin, northeastern China, on Aug. 13, 2024.