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Former US Senator Joe Lieberman Dies At 82

File photo - United States Senator Joseph Lieberman (Independent Democrat of Connecticut), listens as General John R. Allen, USMC, Commander, International Security Assistance Force and Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, testifies on the situation in Afghanistan before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, March 22, 2012. - Former US Senator and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman has died at 82. The cause was complications from a fall, according to a family statement obtained by CBS News, the BBC's US partner. The centrist represented the state of Connecticut in the Senate for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr Lieberman became the first Jewish politician to join a major party US presidential ticket in 2000 when Al Gore selected him as his running mate. Photo by Ron Sachs / CNP /ABACAPRESS.COM

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Italian luxury carmaker Lamborghini reports record sales in 2023

STORY: Italian luxury carmaker Lamborghini reports record sales in 2023 SHOOTING TIME: March 22, 2024 DATELINE: March 23, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:53 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: MARKET SHOTLIST: 1. various of Lamborghini cars in Rome STORYLINE: Italian supercar manufacturer Lamborghini's annual deliveries surpassed 10,000 for the first time ever last year, sources with the company said. In a press statement released on Thursday, the company called 2023 its "best ever" year, with 10,112 vehicles delivered worldwide, a record profit margin of 27.2 percent, and 2.66 billion euros (2.91 billion U.S. dollars) in revenue, a 12-percent increase year-on-year. China is Lamborghini's third-largest market last year with 845 vehicles sold. Meanwhile, the company sold 3,000 cars to the United States and 961 to Germany, the statement said. Lamborghini, part of Germany's Volkswagen Group, has maintained long-term ties with China. Its Ursus SUV was first unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in 2012. Last year, the company

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(ChineseToday)CHINA-YUNNAN-MUSEUM-NEW VITALITY-NPC DEPUTY (CN)

(240302) -- KUNMING, March 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Guo Jin (1st L) and colleagues check a newly collected fossil sample at a site in Chengjiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 22, 2024. Guo Jin, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), is the deputy director of a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City of Yunnan Province. In the past 17 years, he has devoted himself to paleontology research and participated in the preparation work for the world heritage application of the Chengjiang Fossil site. The fossil site was approved to join the World Heritage List in 2012. Guo and his team leveraged modern technological means in exhibiting and injected new vitality into fossils through 3D restoration animation videos and interactive designs. By participating in the design of cultural and creative products, introducing new technologies like AR (augmented reality), 4D cinema, 8K spherical theater, they kept exploring new ways of science popularization. Guo insisted on list

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(ChineseToday)CHINA-YUNNAN-MUSEUM-NEW VITALITY-NPC DEPUTY (CN)

(240302) -- KUNMING, March 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Guo Jin prepares to collect fossil samples at a site in Chengjiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 22, 2024. Guo Jin, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), is the deputy director of a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City of Yunnan Province. In the past 17 years, he has devoted himself to paleontology research and participated in the preparation work for the world heritage application of the Chengjiang Fossil site. The fossil site was approved to join the World Heritage List in 2012. Guo and his team leveraged modern technological means in exhibiting and injected new vitality into fossils through 3D restoration animation videos and interactive designs. By participating in the design of cultural and creative products, introducing new technologies like AR (augmented reality), 4D cinema, 8K spherical theater, they kept exploring new ways of science popularization. Guo insisted on listening and responding to th

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(ChineseToday)CHINA-YUNNAN-MUSEUM-NEW VITALITY-NPC DEPUTY (CN)

(240302) -- KUNMING, March 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Guo Jin (1st R) introduces the evolution of life to visitors at a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 22, 2024. Guo Jin, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), is the deputy director of a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City of Yunnan Province. In the past 17 years, he has devoted himself to paleontology research and participated in the preparation work for the world heritage application of the Chengjiang Fossil site. The fossil site was approved to join the World Heritage List in 2012. Guo and his team leveraged modern technological means in exhibiting and injected new vitality into fossils through 3D restoration animation videos and interactive designs. By participating in the design of cultural and creative products, introducing new technologies like AR (augmented reality), 4D cinema, 8K spherical theater, they kept exploring new ways of science popularization.

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(ChineseToday)CHINA-YUNNAN-MUSEUM-NEW VITALITY-NPC DEPUTY (CN)

(240302) -- KUNMING, March 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Guo Jin collects fossil samples at a site in Chengjiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 22, 2024. Guo Jin, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), is the deputy director of a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City of Yunnan Province. In the past 17 years, he has devoted himself to paleontology research and participated in the preparation work for the world heritage application of the Chengjiang Fossil site. The fossil site was approved to join the World Heritage List in 2012. Guo and his team leveraged modern technological means in exhibiting and injected new vitality into fossils through 3D restoration animation videos and interactive designs. By participating in the design of cultural and creative products, introducing new technologies like AR (augmented reality), 4D cinema, 8K spherical theater, they kept exploring new ways of science popularization. Guo insisted on listening and responding to the concerns

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(ChineseToday)CHINA-YUNNAN-MUSEUM-NEW VITALITY-NPC DEPUTY (CN)

(240302) -- KUNMING, March 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Guo Jin prepares scientific research documents at a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 22, 2024. Guo Jin, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), is the deputy director of a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City of Yunnan Province. In the past 17 years, he has devoted himself to paleontology research and participated in the preparation work for the world heritage application of the Chengjiang Fossil site. The fossil site was approved to join the World Heritage List in 2012. Guo and his team leveraged modern technological means in exhibiting and injected new vitality into fossils through 3D restoration animation videos and interactive designs. By participating in the design of cultural and creative products, introducing new technologies like AR (augmented reality), 4D cinema, 8K spherical theater, they kept exploring new ways of science popularization. Guo insisted o

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(ChineseToday)CHINA-YUNNAN-MUSEUM-NEW VITALITY-NPC DEPUTY (CN)

(240302) -- KUNMING, March 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Guo Jin (C) introduces the evolution of life to children at a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 22, 2024. Guo Jin, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), is the deputy director of a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City of Yunnan Province. In the past 17 years, he has devoted himself to paleontology research and participated in the preparation work for the world heritage application of the Chengjiang Fossil site. The fossil site was approved to join the World Heritage List in 2012. Guo and his team leveraged modern technological means in exhibiting and injected new vitality into fossils through 3D restoration animation videos and interactive designs. By participating in the design of cultural and creative products, introducing new technologies like AR (augmented reality), 4D cinema, 8K spherical theater, they kept exploring new ways of science popularization. Guo

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Demolition of reactor building cover starts

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2012 shows the covered No. 1 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan. On Oct. 22, 2014, Tokyo Electric Power Co. began dismantling the cover, which was installed to prevent the dispersal of radioactive materials.

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Demolition of Fukushima nuke reactor cover to begin

TOKYO, Japan - The cover of a building that houses the crippled No. 1 nuclear reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co., shown in this file photo taken in March 2012, is to be demolished from Oct. 22, 2014, in the first step toward complete removal of the rubble there, a process requiring nearly three years.

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Twin polar bear cubs at Sapporo zoo

SAPPORO, Japan - Twin polar bear cubs stay close to their mother ''Rara'' at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on March 22, 2013, the day the cubs, born in December 2012, were unveiled to the public.

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Twin polar bear cubs at Sapporo zoo

SAPPORO, Japan - Twin polar bear cubs stay close to their mother ''Rara'' at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on March 22, 2013, the day the cubs, born in December 2012, were unveiled to the public.

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Twin polar bear cubs at Sapporo zoo

SAPPORO, Japan - Twin polar bear cubs play around their mother ''Rara'' at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on March 22, 2013, the day the cubs, born in December 2012, were unveiled to the public.

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Gaza after airstrikes

GAZA, Palestinian Authority - Members of Hamas march on a highway in the Palestinian self-governing area of Gaza on Nov. 22, 2012, after a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas was reached. Israeli airstrikes against Gaza had continued for eight days from Nov. 14.

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Demonstration in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Workers march in a major street in a demonstration demanding better labor conditions in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Nov. 22, 2012. Local police said more than 10,000 people took part.

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New Japanese bullet train model

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 22, 2012, shows a security camera (upper L, black part) on the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) E6 series bullet train, to be called the Super Komachi, which was unveiled to the press the same day at a railway yard in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The E6 will be inaugurated on the Tokyo-Akita service in March 2013 with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour, linking the two cities in three hours and 45 minutes on the fastest service.

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New Japanese bullet train model

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 22, 2012, shows a security camera (upper L) on the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) E6 series bullet train, to be called the Super Komachi, which was unveiled to the press the same day at a railway yard in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The E6 will be inaugurated on the Tokyo-Akita service in March 2013 with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour, linking the two cities in three hours and 45 minutes on the fastest service.

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New Japanese bullet train model

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 22, 2012, shows a restroom on the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) E6 series bullet train, to be called the Super Komachi, which was unveiled to the press the same day at a railway yard in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The E6 will be inaugurated on the Tokyo-Akita service in March 2013 with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour, linking the two cities in three hours and 45 minutes on the fastest service.

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New Japanese bullet train model

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 22, 2012, shows the interior of the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) E6 series bullet train, to be called the Super Komachi, which was unveiled to the press the same day at a railway yard in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The E6 will be inaugurated on the Tokyo-Akita service in March 2013 with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour, linking the two cities in three hours and 45 minutes on the fastest service.

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New Japanese bullet train model

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 22, 2012, shows seats in the more expensive "green" coach of the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) E6 series bullet train, to be called the Super Komachi, which was unveiled to the press the same day at a railway yard in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The E6 will be inaugurated on the Tokyo-Akita service in March 2013 with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour, linking the two cities in three hours and 45 minutes on the fastest service.

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New Japanese bullet train model

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 22, 2012, shows the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) E6 series bullet train, to be called the Super Komachi, which was unveiled to the press the same day at a railway yard in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The E6 will be inaugurated on the Tokyo-Akita service in March 2013 with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour, linking the two cities in three hours and 45 minutes on the fastest service.

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New Japanese bullet train model

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 22, 2012, shows the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) E6 series bullet train, to be called the Super Komachi, which was unveiled to the press the same day at a railway yard in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The E6 will be inaugurated on the Tokyo-Akita service in March 2013 with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour, linking the two cities in three hours and 45 minutes on the fastest service.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). Many of the buildings damaged by the tsunami have been removed.

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Air guitar competition in tsunami-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - An air guitar competition is held in Sendai, one of the areas devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on the night of Aug. 6, 2012. The winner will represent Japan at the Aug. 22-24 Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland.

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Air guitar competition in tsunami-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - An air guitar competition is held in Sendai, one of the areas devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on the night of Aug. 6, 2012. The winner will represent Japan at the Aug. 22-24 Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland.

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Air guitar competition in tsunami-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - An air guitar competition is held in Sendai, one of the areas devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on the night of Aug. 6, 2012. The winner will represent Japan at the Aug. 22-24 Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland.

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Anti-China protest staged in Hanoi over territorial row

HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnamese march in central Hanoi on July 22, 2012, to protest against China with which Vietnam has territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

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Man caring for abandoned cattle in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 22, 2012, Naoto Matsumura (C) and his friend Kazuo Endo (R) help a pony onto a truck so he can take it home and care for it, doing so at the request of a resident (L) who has returned home temporarily. The town remains nearly deserted as the government in April 2011 designated it and other municipalities within a 20-kilometer ring around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as a no-go zone. The plant's reactors suffered meltdowns after being struck by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, spewing massive amounts of radioactive materials into the air and sea.

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Chinese tourists in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Chinese tourists visit a lake in the Urabandai area of Fukushima Prefecture on May 22, 2012. They were part of the first tour group from the Chinese mainland to visit the prefecture since the March 2011 disaster.

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Chinese tourists in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Chinese tourists pose for photos in front of Tsuruga Castle in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 22, 2012. They were part of the first tour group from the Chinese mainland to visit the prefecture since the March 2011 disaster.

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American to ship back items lost in tsunami to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows David (L) and Yumi Baxter in Kasilof, Alaska, on April 22, 2012. David holds a soccer ball and Yumi holds a volleyball found by David in mid-March 2012 on the coast of Middleton Island off Alaska, after the balls floated across the Pacific Ocean after being swept away from northeastern Japan in the March 2011 tsunami. The couple initially expressed their intention to deliver the items back to their original owners in person during their upcoming trip to Japan, but have now opted to ship them instead in consideration of the owners' privacy, David Baxter told Kyodo News on May 23, 2012.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, are forcibly removed by police in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, from in front of a truck carrying debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan. The protestors, citing fear of radiation, had sat in front of the truck to block delivery of the rubble to Kitakyushu for trial incineration.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, block the delivery for trial incineration in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, by gathering around a truck carrying the rubble, while police officers and city officials try to persuade them to leave the site. The opponents cite fear of radiation.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, block the delivery for trial incineration in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, by sitting in front of a truck carrying the rubble. The opponents cite fear of radiation.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters fly a banner reading, ''No to radioactive debris'' on May 22, 2012, as they block the delivery to Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan for trial incineration.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, block the delivery to Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan for trial incineration. The opponents cite fear of radiation.

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Opening ceremony for Tokyo Skytree Town

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in March 2012 shows the exterior of the 350-meter observation deck of Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward. An opening ceremony for Tokyo Skytree Town, the newly completed commercial complex surrounding the 634-meter-high tower, was held on May 14 at the observation deck, ahead of the tower's grand opening on May 22.

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Owner of tsunami-swept volleyball found

KASILOF, United States - Photo shows David (L) and Yumi Baxter in Kasilof, Alaska, on April 22, 2012. David holds a soccer ball and Yumi a volleyball, both found by David in mid-March 2012 on the coast of Middleton Island off Alaska. The balls apparently floated across the Pacific Ocean after being swept away from northeastern Japan in the March 2011 tsunami. Their owners have been located in Japan.

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Soccer ball lost in Japan's tsunami found off Alaska

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo shows 16-year-old Misaki Murakami, a second-year high school student in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 22, 2012. A soccer ball, believed to belong to him, was found on the coast of Middleton Island off Alaska after apparently floating across the Pacific Ocean after being swept away from the northeastern Japanese city in the March 2011 tsunami. Murakami received the ball from classmates in March 2005, when he was in third grade, as a farewell gift before he transferred to another school in the city.

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Earth Day antinuclear march in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows participants of the Earth Day Parade in Tokyo's Shibuya commercial district on April 22, 2012. The event's organizer said about 1,000 people took part to express opposition to reactivating a nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.

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Ikata power plant

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 22, 2012, shows the facilities of Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear power plant in the town of Ikata, Ehime Prefecture. Reactor buildings Nos. 1, 3 and 2 are seen from left to right.

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Ikata power plant

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 22, 2012, shows the facilities of Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear power plant in the town of Ikata, Ehime Prefecture.

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Ikata power plant

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 22, 2012, shows the facilities of Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear power plant in the town of Ikata, Ehime Prefecture. The building housing the No. 3 reactor (L) can be seen.

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N. Korean orchestra plans U.S. tour

ATLANTA, United States - Global Resource Services Inc. President Robert Springs speaks during a press conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 22, 2012. He said North Korea's National Symphony Orchestra is planning an 18-day U.S. tour later in 2012, beginning in Atlanta and ending in New York, according to the nongovernmental organization which is preparing to take an American musical group to the reclusive country in April.

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Ichiro makes Seattle squad for Japan trip

PEORIA, United States - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners leaves the team's camp in Peoria, Arizona, on March 22, 2012, after he was named to the 30-man traveling squad for the upcoming season-opening two-game series in Japan against the Oakland Athletics.

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Audi's convertible

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 22, 2012 in Tokyo shows the Audi R8 GT Spyder, a convertible to be sold in Japan from late April by Audi Japan K.K. The Japanese unit of the German automaker said only 333 such cars will be produced for sale worldwide, of which 10 vehicles will be offered for sale in Japan at a price of 30.64 million yen.

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Speed skating championships

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands - Canadian Denny Morrison wins the men's 1,500 meters in 1:46.44 at the World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on March 22, 2012.

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Speed skating championships

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands - Canadian Denny Morrison celebrates after winning the men's 1,500 meters in 1:46.44 at the World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on March 22, 2012.

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Speed skating championships

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands - Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic wins the women's 3,000 meters in 4:01.88 at the World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on March 22, 2012.

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Kawasaki makes Seattle squad for Japan trip

PEORIA, United States - Munenori Kawasaki (front R) of the Seattle Mariners leaves the team's camp in Peoria, Arizona, on March 22, 2012, after he was named to the 30-man traveling squad for the upcoming season-opening two-game series in Japan against the Oakland Athletics.