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Demarcation project starts in tsunami-hit Japan city

SENDAI, Japan - The Yuriage district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is photographed on Oct. 20, 2014, at the start of a demarcation project undertaken as part of reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.

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Demarcation project launched in tsunami-hit Japan city

SENDAI, Japan - Mayor Isoo Sasaki (R) of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, and other people attend a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 20, 2014, to launch a demarcation project in the Yuriage district of the northeastern Japan city devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.

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Internally displaced in Libya

TRIPOLI, Libya - Evacuees from Tawergha, western Libya, cook a meal in the corridor of a shelter in the suburbs of Tripoli on Oct. 20, 2012. About 40,000 residents of Tawergha have been forced to live elsewhere in Libya since anti-Muammar Gaddafi forces took over the town that was loyal to the former leader in August 2011.

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Internally displaced in Libya

TRIPOLI, Libya - Evacuees from Tawergha, western Libya, watch TV at a shelter in a Tripoli suburb on Oct. 20, 2012. About 40,000 residents of Tawergha have been forced to live elsewhere in Libya since anti-Muammar Gaddafi forces took over the town that was loyal to the former leader in August 2011.

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Nano-level oxygen bubbles effective to purify lake

HAKODATE, Japan - Yoichi Kadokami, director of Kadokami Laboratories of Integrated Sciences in Hakodate, investigates the quality of water in a lake, in which nanometer-sized oxygen bubbles have been injected, in the town of Nanae, Hokkaido, on Oct. 20, 2011. The injection stimulates aquatic microorganisms and has the potential to improve the water quality of whole lakes through continuous injection, according to a research team.

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Tunisians prepare for election

TUNIS, Tunisia - Election campaign staff in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, on Oct. 20, 2011, call on people to vote for their candidates in the National Constituent Assembly election slated for Oct. 23, 2011. The election will be the first in the North African country since President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in January 2011.

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Red Sox's Ortiz receives 2011 Clemente Award

ST. LOUIS, United States - Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz (R) hugs Vera Clemente, the widow of Roberto Clemente, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, on Oct. 20, 2011, after he received the Roberto Clemente Award. The annual award recognizes the player who best represents the game of baseball through positive contributions, on and off the field, paying tribute to the achievements and character of the late MLB star Clemente. The 12-time All-Star and Hall of Famer died in a plane crash on New Year's Eve 1972 while attempting to deliver supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

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Ibaraki Airport wins low-cost airport of year award

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Ibaraki Gov. Masaru Hashimoto (R) attends an award ceremony in Singapore on Oct. 20, 2011, as Ibaraki Airport in his prefecture won the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation's best low-cost airport of the year award. The airport, which opened in March 2010 in Ibaraki Prefecture about 40 kilometers outside Tokyo, received the award for being the most ''innovative and influential'' airport in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the Sydney-based CAPA.

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Flooding in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Employees at a Honda factory in eastern Bangkok pile up sandbags around the facility on Oct. 20, 2011, as floodwaters that had hit Thailand's northern regions approached the capital.

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People in flood-hit northern Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - People sit on stacked sandbags on Oct. 20, 2011, which were placed in front of stores in northern Bangkok to stave off floodwater. Central Bangkok was on high alert the same day as flooding that has caused large-scale damage throughout Thailand poured into the northern part of the capital city.

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Flooding in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Cup noodles are scarce in supply in a supermarket in Bangkok on Oct. 20, 2011, as floodwaters that had hit Thailand's northern regions approached the capital.

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Cards, Rangers tied 1-1 after Texas wins Game 2

ST. LOUIS, United States - Allen Craig of the St. Louis Cardinals hits an RBI single in the seventh inning of Game 2 in the World Series against the Texas Rangers at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Oct. 20, 2011. Texas stole a win, 2-1, with two runs in the ninth, tying the best-of-seven series 1-1.

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Large-scale quake drill in California

LOS ANGELES, United States - People take part in an earthquake drill at a supermarket in Los Angeles on Oct. 20, 2011. Some 8.6 million people participated in major exercises, dubbed the ''Shakeout,'' in California, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, which simulated a magnitude 7.8 temblor hitting the state.

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Flooding in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Motorists drive past stacked sandbags in Bangkok on Oct. 20, 2011, placed on the roadside to stave off floodwater.

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Red Sox's Ortiz receives 2011 Clemente Award

ST. LOUIS, United States - Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, nicknamed Big Papi, attends a press conference at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, on Oct. 20, 2011, after he received the Roberto Clemente Award. The annual award recognizes the player who best represents the game of baseball through positive contributions, on and off the field, paying tribute to achievements and character of the late MLB star Clemente. The 12-time All-Star and Hall of Famer died in a plane crash on New Year's Eve 1972 while attempting to deliver supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

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China, Taiwan sign nuclear power safety pact

TIANJIN, China - Chen Yunlin (R), chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation, shake hands in Tianjin, China, on Oct. 20, 2011, after signing an agreement to cooperate on nuclear power safety.

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People in flood-hit northern Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - People ride motor scooters on a flooded street in a residential area of northern Bangkok on Oct. 20, 2011. Central Bangkok was on heightened alert the same day as flooding that has caused large-scale damage throughout Thailand poured into the northern part of the capital city.

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People in flood-hit northern Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - People drive or ride through a flooded street in a residential area of northern Bangkok on Oct. 20, 2011. Central Bangkok was on high alert the same day as flooding that has caused large-scale damage throughout Thailand poured into the northern part of the capital city.

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China, Taiwan sign nuclear power safety pact

TIANJIN, China - Chen Yunlin (R), chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation, shake hands in Tianjin, China, on Oct. 20, 2011, at the outset of a meeting. China and Taiwan signed an agreement to cooperate on nuclear power safety.

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Protests in Athens

ATHENS, Greece - People demonstrate near the Greek parliament in Athens on Oct. 20, 2011, the second day of a general strike against the latest wave of austerity measures planned by the government.

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Japan team wins solar car race in Australia

ADELAIDE, Australia - A solar car of Japan's Tokai University finishes first in Adelaide, Australia, on Oct. 20, 2011, winning a five-day, 3,000-kilometer solar car race across the continent. In the World Solar Challenge race, 37 teams from 20 countries and territories took part.

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Protests in Athens

ATHENS, Greece - People demonstrate near the Greek parliament in Athens on Oct. 20, 2011, the second day of a general strike against the latest wave of austerity measures planned by the government.

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Flooding in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - People pile up sandbags in central Bangkok on Oct. 20, 2011, as floodwaters that had hit Thailand's northern regions approached the capital.

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Flooding in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Buddhist monks walk on sandbags in Bangkok on Oct. 20, 2011, as floodwaters that had hit Thailand's northern regions approached the capital.

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Fukushima assembly calls for decommissioning local reactors

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - The Fukushima prefectural assembly adopts on Oct. 20, 2011, a petition calling for decommissioning all 10 reactors at the prefecture's two nuclear power plants in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at one of them following the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Removing ship after tsunami

KAMAISHI, Japan - The 4,724-ton freighter Asia Symphony is lifted from land at Kamaishi port in Iwate Prefecture before being moved to the sea on Oct. 20, 2011. The ship was washed onto the land by the March 11 tsunami.

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Removing ship after tsunami

KAMAISHI, Japan - The 4,724-ton freighter Asia Symphony is lifted from land at Kamaishi port in Iwate Prefecture before being moved to the sea on Oct. 20, 2011. The ship was washed onto the land by the March 11 tsunami.

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Removing ship after tsunami

KAMAISHI, Japan - The 4,724-ton freighter Asia Symphony is lifted from land at Kamaishi port in Iwate Prefecture before being moved to the sea on Oct. 20, 2011. The ship was washed onto the land by the March 11 tsunami.

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Panasonic to scale down TV business

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in December 2009 shows Panasonic Corp.'s No. 3 plant in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. The production of plasma television display panels at the factory will be ceased by the end of March 2012 as company sources said on Oct. 20, 2011, that the electronics appliance maker has decided to sharply scale down its money-losing television-making business, reducing production of plasma display panels and cutting over 1,000 jobs.

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Matsuyama to turn pro golfer

SENDAI, Japan - Amateur golfer Hideki Matsuyama of Tohoku Fukushi University speaks at a press conference at its campus in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 20, 2010. The 18-year-old who has earned a spot in the 2011 Masters Tournament in the United States said he will turn professional after graduating from the university.