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Indonesia: Mount Dukono Erupts, Spewing Volcanic Ash 1,600 Meters High

Mount Dukono, located on Indonesia's Halmahera Island, erupted on June 23, spewing 1,600 meters of volcanic ash into the sky.

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US: Tornado-Warned Storm Sweeps Through Houston Area, Leaving Significant Damage 9

An intense, tornado-warned storm of unprecedented scale swept through the Houston metropolitan area on Thursday, May 16. The storm blew out windows of high-rise buildings downtown, leaving a trail of significant damage and hundreds of thousands of people without power. This video shows debris from the windows of high-rise buildings in downtown being blown away by strong winds.

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Freed Nepalese man at his Kathmandu home

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali (L), the Nepalese man convicted in a 1997 Tokyo murder case, waves, with his wife Radha (C) and their second daughter Alisha standing next to him, from the balcony of their home in Kathmandu on June 17, 2012. Mainali returned home the previous day for the first time in 18 years after a Japanese court granted him a retrial.

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Nepalese man returns home for 1st time in 18 yrs

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali (C), the Nepalese man convicted in a 1997 Tokyo murder case, waves after a press conference in Kathmandu on June 16, 2012. Mainali returned to Nepal earlier in the day for the first time in 18 years after a Japanese court granted him a retrial. He is flanked by his 79-year-old mother Chandrakala (L) and his wife Radha.

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Nepalese man returns home for 1st time in 18 yrs

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali (L), the Nepalese man convicted in a 1997 Tokyo murder case, and his wife Radha wave from the balcony of their home in Kathmandu on June 16, 2012. Mainali returned home for the first time in 18 years the same day after a Japanese court granted him a retrial.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R), the wife of Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, and their daughters Mithila (L) and Alisha (C), meet the press at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - (From L) Radha Mainali and her second daughter Alisha and eldest daughter Mithila are interviewed in Yokohama on June 8, 2012, after meeting Radha's husband, and Alisha and Mithila's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali, at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R, front row) and her daughters Mithila (L, front row) and Alisha (C, front row) leave the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, after meeting Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - (From L) Radha Mainali and her daughters Mithila and Alisha visit the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, to meet Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R, front row) and her daughters Mithila (L, front row) and Alisha (C, front row) visit the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, to meet Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Inmate's kin

NARITA, Japan - (from L) Radha, wife of murder case inmate Govinda Prasad Mainali, and her daughters Mithila and Alisha arrive at Narita airport near Tokyo on June 6, 2012. They visited Japan as the Tokyo High Court plans to issue a decision on June 7 on whether to open a retrial for the Nepalese man serving a life sentence for killing a Japanese woman in Tokyo in 1997. The man denies the killing in a high-profile case in which the victim was working as a prostitute as well as at the then blue-chip Tokyo Electric Power Co.