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Heavy rain caused severe flooding across Greater Manchester on New Year's Day forcing at least 13,000 people to evacuate. Emergency services declared a major incident.

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Hotels, wedding halls help men tie the knot

KOBE, Japan - Naoya Sakamoto (R) gets down on his knees and hands his girlfriend Madoka Miyake a bouquet of red roses to propose marriage in Kobe's Tarumi Ward on May 29.

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Maikono-hama coast

Maikonohama Beach stretches about 1.7 km along the Seto Inland Sea. Located in the western part of present-day Tarumi Ward, it was famous from ancient times as a scenic point with white sand and pine trees. Utagawa Hiroshige made many ukiyoe prints depicting the scenery here. This photograph captures the area around the Old Saigoku Highway (present-day National Route #2), facing west. Taken from the mid- to late-Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐69‐0]