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Beauty salon at KidZania Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Girls play the role of beauty consultants and customers in a mock cosmetics store of Clinique Laboratories LLC at KidZania Tokyo, a job role-playing theme park for children, in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2011. The beauty salon opened on Oct. 5, the fifth anniversary of the theme park's opening.

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Gov't official drinks Fukushima plant water

TOKYO, Japan - Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary Yasuhiro Sonoda drinks water taken from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2011. He drank the water, taken from the basements of the No. 5 and 6 reactor buildings, after a reporter asked him to do so to prove it is safe.

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Tosen Jordan wins Emperor's Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Italian jockey Nicola Pinna (R) celebrates on Tosen Jordan after the horse crossed the line 1st in the autumn Emperor's Cup at Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchu, Tokyo, on Oct. 30, 2011. The 5-year-old Tosen Jordan, the seventh choice, set a new national record of 1 minute, 56.1 seconds for 2,000 meters.

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Mazda unveils SUV with clean diesel engine

TOKYO, Japan - Mazda Motor Corp. President Takashi Yamanouchi presents the CX-5, a sport-utility vehicle equipped with a clean diesel engine, during a press briefing in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Oct. 25, 2011.

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Rangers 1 win away from capturing Series title

ARLINGTON, United States - Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre hits a solo homer in the sixth inning of Game 5 of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 24, 2011. Texas won 4-2, closing within one win of their first World Series title with a 3-2 series lead.

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Cardinals' Pujols in Game 5 of World Series

ARLINGTON, United States - Photo shows St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols batting in the seventh inning of Game 5 of the World Series at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 24, 2011, as pitcher Alexi Ogando intentionally walked him. Texas won 4-2, closing within one win of their first World Series title with a 3-2 series lead.

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Rangers 1 win away from capturing Series title

ARLINGTON, United States - Texas Rangers pitcher C.J. Wilson starts in Game 5 of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 24, 2011. Texas won 4-2, closing within one win of their first World Series title with a 3-2 series lead.

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Steve Jobs at iPad 2 unveiling event

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - File photo shows Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs speaking during an event to unveil the iPad 2 tablet computer in San Francisco on March 2, 2011. Jobs died Oct. 5, 2011, aged 56.

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Caps made from tsunami-hit fishermen's flags

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Hunting caps are displayed at cap and hat manufacturer Suzuki Kikaku's office in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 5, 2011. The company has begun selling the caps made from ''tairyobata'' flags, which are hoisted on fishing boats on their way back to port to signal a large catch. The flags have been provided by local fishermen who lost their boats due to the March tsunami, and part of the revenues from the caps' sales will be used to reinvigorate the local fishing industry.

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Rangers win ALCS

ARLINGTON, United States - Japan's Koji Uehara (C) takes part in a champagne celebration after the Texas Rangers won Game 6 of the American League baseball championship series against the Detroit Tigers 15-5 in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 15, 2011. The Rangers advanced to the World Series.

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Rangers win ALCS

ARLINGTON, United States - Japan's Koji Uehara (R) and Yoshinori Tateyama (4th from R), and other Texas Rangers players celebrate after winning Game 6 of the American League baseball championship series against the Detroit Tigers 15-5 in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 15, 2011. The Rangers advanced to the World Series.

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Taiwan presidential candidate

TOKYO, Japan - Tsai Ing-wen, head of Taiwan's main opposition Democratic Progressive Party, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011, ahead of a presidential election in January.

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Rangers' Tateyama vs Tigers in ALCS Game 3

DETROIT, United States - Yoshinori Tateyama of the Texas Rangers, who replaced Darren Oliver during the eighth inning, pitches against the Detroit Tigers in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 11, 2011. Tateyama threw two-thirds of a scoreless inning. Texas led the best-of-seven series 2-1 after losing 5-2 to Detroit.

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Rangers' Uehara in loss vs Tigers in ALCS Game 3

DETROIT, United States - Koji Uehara of the Texas Rangers, who replaced Colby Lewis during the sixth inning, pitches against the Detroit Tigers in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 11, 2011. He was charged with 1 run in two thirds of an inning. Texas led the best-of-seven series 2-1 after losing 5-2 to Detroit.

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Cards' big win ties NLCS

MILWAUKEE, United States - Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals rips a two-run homer in the first inning in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Oct. 10, 2011. Pujols went 4-for-5 with 5 RBIs in a 12-3 victory for St. Louis. The best-of-seven league championship series is tied at one game apiece.

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Nadal advances to final at Japan Open

TOKYO, Japan - Defending champion Rafael Nadal of Spain returns the ball against Mardy Fish of the United States in a singles semifinal match of the Japan Open at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2011. Nadal advanced to the final by beating Fish 7-5, 6-1.

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Fish advances to semifinals at Japan Open

TOKYO, Japan - American Mardy Fish plays a shot against Bernard Tomic of Australia in a singles quarterfinal match of the Japan Open at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2011. Fourth-seeded Fish advanced to the semifinals by defeating Tomic 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-1.

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Tigers advance to ALDS championship series

NEW YORK, United States - Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander (R) pours champagne on infielder Miguel Cabrera (L) to celebrate their team's victory in Game 5 of the American League playoff series against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on Oct. 6, 2011. The Tigers won 3-2 to head to the American League championship series for the first time since 2006 to face the Texas Rangers.

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Tigers advance to ALDS championship series

NEW YORK, United States - New York Yankees starter Ivan Nova pitches during Game 5 of the American League division series against the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium in New York on Oct. 6, 2011. The Tigers won 3-2 to head to the American League championship series for the first time since 2006 to face the Texas Rangers.

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Tigers advance to ALDS championship series

NEW YORK, United States - Detroit Tigers starter Doug Fister pitches during Game 5 of the American League division series against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on Oct. 6, 2011. The Tigers won 3-2 to head to the American League championship series for the first time since 2006 to face the Texas Rangers.

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Portsmouth Peace Treaty original text

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2011, at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo shows part of the original Portsmouth Peace Treaty text. The treaty was signed by the Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the state of Maine, the United States, on Sept. 5, 1905, formally ending the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. The signatures of Japan's Jutaro Komura and Kogoro Takahira are seen in the photo.

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Portsmouth Peace Treaty original text

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2011, at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo shows part of the original Portsmouth Peace Treaty text. The treaty was signed by the Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the state of Maine, the United States, on Sept. 5, 1905, formally ending the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.

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Nadal cruises into q'finals at Japan Open

TOKYO, Japan - Defending champion Rafael Nadal of Spain hits a shot in a Japan Open second-round match against Milos Raonic of Canada at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2011. Top seed Nadal won 7-5, 6-3 and advanced to the quarterfinals.

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Portsmouth Peace Treaty original text

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2011, at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo shows part of the original Portsmouth Peace Treaty text. The treaty was signed by the Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the state of Maine, the United States, on Sept. 5, 1905, formally ending the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.

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Nadal cruises into q'finals at Japan Open

TOKYO, Japan - Defending champion Rafael Nadal of Spain hits a shot in a Japan Open second-round match against Milos Raonic of Canada at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2011. Top seed Nadal won 7-5, 6-3 and advanced to the quarterfinals.

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Brewers' Saito vs. D-backs

PHOENIX, United States - Takashi Saito of the Milwaukee Brewers pitches against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 4 of their National League Division Series at Chase Field in Phoenix on Oct. 5, 2011. Saito hurled a scoreless eighth inning in a 10-6 loss to Arizona. The series is tied 2-2.

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Brewers' Saito vs. D-backs

PHOENIX, United States - Takashi Saito of the Milwaukee Brewers pitches against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 4 of their National League Division Series at Chase Field in Phoenix on Oct. 5, 2011. Saito hurled a scoreless eighth inning in a 10-6 loss to Arizona. The series is tied 2-2.

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'Occupy Wall Street' demonstration in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Children hold slogans during a major demonstration in New York on Oct. 5, 2011. The demonstration is one of the events organized as part of the movement dubbed ''Occupy Wall Street,'' to protest the running of the financial sector and economic inequality in the United States.

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Uchimura prepares for world's gymnastics c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Kohei Uchimura, who has captured the last two consecutive individual all-around titles at the world gymnastics championships, practices on Oct. 5, 2011, at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo, where the world championship competition will be held from Oct. 7 to 16.

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Apple co-founder Jobs dies

NEW YORK, United States - File photo shows Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder and chairman, speaks during an event to unveil new products in San Francisco in March 2011. Apple said on Oct. 5, 2011, Jobs has died at the age of 56.

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Strike in Greece

ATHENS, Greece - Riot police officers keep watch near the Greek parliament building in Athens on Oct 5, 2011. Thousands of striking workers marched to the parliament the same day against the government's austerity policy.

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World's cheapest Indian tablet

NEW DELHI, India - A woman holds on Oct. 5, 2011 in New Delhi a tablet computer, nicknamed Aakash, which was unveiled and launched in the Indian capital by the government the same day. Aakash, which has been designed, developed and manufactured by the Britain-based DataWind Ltd. in association with the Indian Institute of Technology in Rajasthan under the Indian government's National Mission on Education through Information and Technology (NME-ICT), will carry a price as low as $38, making it the world's cheapest tablet computer.

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Ito loses in 2nd round of Japan Open

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Tatsuma Ito reacts during a men's singles second round match at the Japan Open at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. Bernard Tomic of Australia beat Ito 6-7(4), 6-1, 7-5.

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World's cheapest Indian tablet

NEW DELHI, India - A student holds on Oct. 5, 2011 in New Delhi a tablet computer, nicknamed Aakash, which was unveiled and launched in the Indian capital by the government the same day. Aakash, which has been designed, developed and manufactured by the Britain-based DataWind Ltd. in association with the Indian Institute of Technology in Rajasthan under the Indian government's National Mission on Education through Information and Technology (NME-ICT), will carry a price as low as $38, making it the world's cheapest tablet computer.

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Murray advances to 2nd round at Japan Open

TOKYO, Japan - Andy Murray of Britain plays a shot during a men's singles first round match at the Japan Open at Ariake Tennis Forest Park in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. The second-seeded Murray advanced to the second round by beating Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-4.

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Academic forum in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A two-day international academic forum begins at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Oct. 5, 2011. Researchers from Britain, China and the United States are among the participants in the forum.

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Japanese golfer Koga to retire

TAKASAKI, Japan - Japanese golfer Miho Koga wipes away tears as she formally announces that she will retire at the end of this season during a press conference in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on Oct. 5, 2011. The 2008 Japan LPGA money winner has struggled since injuring her left wrist in May 2009.

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Japanese golfer Koga to retire

TAKASAKI, Japan - Japanese golfer Miho Koga announces that she will retire at the end of this season during a press conference in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on Oct. 5, 2011. The 2008 Japan LPGA money winner has struggled since injuring her left wrist in May 2009.

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Fujifilm's new compact camera 'Fujifuilm X10'

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actor Masahiro Motoki holds Fujifuilm Corp.'s compact camera ''Fujifilm X10'' in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. The X10, featuring an ultra bright lens with a wide-angle maximum aperture of 2.0, is scheduled to hit store shelves on Oct. 22, 2011.

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Academic forum in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Peter Agre, a winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and professor in the molecular microbiology and immunology department at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, speaks at an international academic forum held at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Oct. 5, 2011.

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Apple's iPhone 4S

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 5, 2011, at an Apple store in Tokyo's Ginza district shows Apple Inc.'s new smartphone model iPhone 4S. Japanese telecommunication carriers KDDI Corp. and Softbank Mobile Corp., which will sell the iPhone 4S in Japan from Oct. 14, 2011, are expected to announce their price and rate plans as soon as Oct. 6. Participation by KDDI in iPhone sales would intensify competition in the smartphone market in Japan.

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S. Korean star Hyun Bin in Jakarta

JAKARTA, Indonesia - South Korean actor Hyun Bin (C) visits Jakarta to attend a commemoration ceremony for Indonesian forces in the Indonesian capital on Oct. 5, 2011, as a member of the South Korean delegation. The actor, who is very popular in Indonesia, has voluntarily joined South Korea's Marine Corps.

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Protesters in Athens

ATHENS, Greece - Members of labor unions march in front of the Greek finance ministry in Athens on Oct. 5, 2011, in protest against the latest waves of austerity measures by the government.

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Emperor Akihito visits Fuji Manufacturing

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (R) visits Fuji Manufacturing Co., a manufacturer of metal and glass working machinery in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, on Oct. 5, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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McLaren Automotive's new sports car MP4-12C

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows British automaker McLaren Automotive's MP4-12C which was unveiled in Japan for the first time on Oct. 5, 2011, in Tokyo. The automaker has started accepting orders for the lightweight, two-seat sports car, which utilizes technology that McLaren introduced to Formula One, at a price of 27.9 million yen.

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Emperor Akihito visits Fuji Manufacturing

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) visits Fuji Manufacturing Co., a manufacturer of metal and glass working machinery in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, on Oct. 5, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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ANA unit urged to devise steps following belly-up incident

TOKYO, Japan - Futoshi Osada (far L), director general of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Civil Aviation Bureau, gives a written directive to Koichi Uchizono (2nd from L), president of Air Nippon Co., a unit of All Nippon Airways Co., at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. The ministry ordered the company to take steps to prevent a recurrence of an in-flight operational error that caused one of its aircraft to briefly fly almost belly up when traveling from Okinawa to Tokyo in September.

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Public library reopens in disaster-hit Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People visit a makeshift public library in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on the opening day on Oct. 5, 2011. The town-run library lost almost all of its 30,000 books due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami but reopened with 3,000 of some 10,000 donated books.

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Furniture retail chain Nitori's 1st mall

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 5, 2011, shows the first shopping mall of major furniture retail chain Nitori Holdings Co., which opened the same day in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture.

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Relocated village in central China sees promising future in rural revitalization

STORY: Relocated village in central China sees promising future in rural revitalization DATELINE: Oct. 9, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:20 LOCATION: ZHENGZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project 2. various of the Zouzhuang Village 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG HENGJU, Zouzhuang villager 4. various of the Zouzhuang Village 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZOU HUIYI, Farmer of Zouzhuang Village 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): CUI LIPING, Village official STORYLINE: This is a village in central China's Henan Province. People here used to live near the Danjiangkou reservoir. In 2011, they relocated to the Zouzhuang Village because of the construction of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. With the help of the government, the village has developed industries and rural tourism, building fruit trees planting base and eco-tourism resort. The annual income of the village exceeds 300,000 yuan (about 42,100 U.S. dollars). SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG HENGJU, Zouzhuang village