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Iranians Rally At Former US Embassy - Tehran

A group of boys take a selfie with two men in front of an anti-U.S. mural depicting an altered Statue of Liberty near the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 2025. The compound, seized during the 1979 hostage crisis, now features politically themed murals and hosts annual rallies marking the anniversary of the embassy’s takeover. Photo by Yar/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iranians Rally At Former US Embassy - Tehran

A group of boys take a selfie with two men in front of an anti-U.S. mural depicting an altered Statue of Liberty near the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 2025. The compound, seized during the 1979 hostage crisis, now features politically themed murals and hosts annual rallies marking the anniversary of the embassy’s takeover. Photo by Yar/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hamas Releases the Bodies of Four Israeli Hostages - Gaza

Masked Palestinian militants stand next to one of the coffins on stage, with an altered portrait of Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu in the background, before handing over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025. Hamas handed over on February 20 coffins believed to contain the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including those of the Bibas family who became symbols of the ordeal that has gripped Israel since the Gaza war began. The transfer of the bodies is the first by Hamas since its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war, and is taking place under a fragile ceasefire that has seen living hostages exchanged for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. Photo by Saeed Jaras/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Buses

19.07.23, Tallinn. Tallinn announced that 11 bus routes will be altered in a bid to decentralize the network and remove buses from the city center. Photo: Kermo Benrot, Postimees

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Buses

19.07.23, Tallinn. Tallinn announced that 11 bus routes will be altered in a bid to decentralize the network and remove buses from the city center. Photo: Kermo Benrot, Postimees

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Raising pigeons on rooftop remains unique hobby, business in Egypt

STORY: Raising pigeons on rooftop remains unique hobby, business in Egypt DATELINE: Feb. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:45 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of pigeons on the top of a building in Cairo, Egypt 2. various of pigeon breeder Ahmed Kamal and his pigeons 3. various of pigeons flying in the sky 4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): AHMED KAMAL, Egyptian pigeon breeder STORYLINE: When walking around the Egyptian capital of Cairo, it is hard to ignore the scaffold-like wooden structures perching on top of some buildings, as they have altered the skyline of the city. These are the pigeon lofts, the rickety wood homes for Cairenes' beloved birds. Pigeon breeding has been a long tradition in the Middle East, especially in Egypt. Some ancient Egyptian reliefs depicted flocks of pigeons being released from their cages to fly and then return. For many Egyptians, now it remains both a passion and a business to raise these birds. Raising pigeons is a way to make living for some Egyptians because t

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NPB head Kato announces resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Ryozo Kato (back L) is pictured at the owners' meeting on Sept. 19, 2013. Kato announced his resignation at the meeting. He had come under fire in June, when it was revealed that NPB had secretly altered the baseball used by its two leagues.

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NPB head Kato announces resignation

TOKYO, Japan - A meeting of the professional baseball owners is held in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2013. Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Ryozo Kato (back, center L) announced his resignation at the meeting. He had come under fire in June, when it was revealed that NPB had secretly altered the baseball used by its two leagues.

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NPB head Kato announces resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Ryozo Kato enters a room at a hotel in Tokyo to attend the owners' meeting on Sept. 19, 2013. Kato announced his resignation at the meeting. He had come under fire in June, when it was revealed that NPB had secretly altered the baseball used by its two leagues.

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NPB head Kato intends to resign

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Ryozo Kato. Kato, 72, intends to resign, sources close to the matter said Sept. 19, 2013. He came under fire earlier in the year after the Japanese league secretly altered its ball.

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Novartis Pharma

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiyasu Ninomiya, president of Novartis Pharma K.K., attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 29, 2013. Novartis Pharma, a Japanese unit of Swiss drug company Novartis AG, said it has found no evidence a former employee manipulated or altered clinical research data for the drugmaker's Diovan blood pressure lowering drug.

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Data altered in Japanese research for Novartis blood pressure drug

TOKYO, Japan - Toshikazu Yoshikawa (2nd from L), president of the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, and Shinji Fushiki (L), the university窶冱 vice president, bow toward the end of a press conference in Kyoto on July 11, 2013. Yoshikawa apologized as the university found that data employed in a clinical study on Novartis Pharama K.K.'s blockbuster blood pressure lowering drug Diovan were manipulated.

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China press freedom

BEIJING, China - Photo taken in Beijing on Jan. 12, 2013, shows a smartphone displaying an image -- a cat lying on the Southern Weekly -- on the chat app Weixin. A Chinese journalist known as Anti had originally posted the image, saying the cat also supported the weekly newspaper in Guangdong Province, whose staff went on strike after an editorial was altered by a government censor.

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China press freedom

GUANGZHOU, China - Authorities take a man away after he called for press freedom near the head office of the Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou in China's Guangdong Province on Jan. 10, 2013. Demonstrators were showing support for the newspaper after its New Year editorial greeting was altered by the Chinese government.

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China press freedom

GUANGZHOU, China - Two men call for press freedom near the head office of the Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou in China's Guangdong Province on Jan. 10, 2013. Authorities later took them away. Demonstrators were showing support for the newspaper after its New Year editorial greeting was altered by the Chinese government.

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Censorship in China

GUANGZHOU, China - Government supporters gather near the office of the Southern Weekly to criticize the newspaper in Guangzhou in China's Guangdong Province on Jan. 9, 2013. The government altered the paper's New Year editorial greeting, prompting public demonstrations.

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Protest over press freedom in China

GUANGZHOU, China - People protesting against the government's violation of press freedom (L side) squabble with police officers who told them to leave near the office of the Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou in China's Guangdong Province on Jan. 9, 2013. The demonstrators were showing support for the newspaper after its New Year editorial greeting was altered by the government.

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Censorship in China

GUANGZHOU, China - People listen to supporters of the Southern Weekly newspaper near its office in Guangzhou in China's Guangdong Province on Jan. 9, 2013, after the government altered the paper's New Year editorial greeting.

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Censorship in China

GUANGZHOU, China - Protesters call for press freedom near the office of the Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou in China's Guangdong Province on Jan. 9, 2013, after the government altered the paper's New Year editorial greeting.

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Censorship in China

BEIJING, China - Photo taken Jan. 9, 2013, shows the New Year issue of the Guangzhou-based Southern Weekly newspaper, which was sold in Beijing. The government altered the paper's New Year editorial greeting, prompting public demonstrations.

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Beijing News' tacit support for Southern Weekly

BEIJING, China - Photo shows a gourmet article carried by The Beijing News newspaper on Jan. 9, 2013. The story took up "rice porridges from southern China," which has a similar pronunciation in Chinese to "Southern Weekly," and the article was believed to suggest the Beijing News' support for the newspaper in Guangdong Province after its article was altered by the government.

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Censorship saga draws public support in China's Guangdong

BEIJING, China - Photo shows the Southern Weekly newspaper's New Year edition dated Jan. 3, 2013. The paper's New Year editorial greeting was reportedly altered by southern China's Guangdong provincial propaganda office chief without its consent. The original article, which called on authorities in Beijing not to override the Constitution and to adopt democracy, was changed to a piece glorifying the ruling Communist Party.

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Website run by top court altered

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 14, 2012, shows the altered homepage of a Japanese courts website run by the Supreme Court, in which the image of a Chinese flag flying over an island and a message proclaiming China's sovereignty over a group of Japan-controlled islands in the East China Sea, is posted.

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Japan envoy's car with new national flag

BEIJING, China - Photo taken Aug. 30, 2012, shows the official vehicle of Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa, to which a new Japanese flag is attached. The previous flag was ripped off in an attack on Aug. 27. (Image partly altered)

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Japan to deport activists arrested over Senkaku landing

NAHA, Japan - Activists from a Hong Kong-based group seeking to assert China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, and other people, are escorted off a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel at a port in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2012. Japanese authorities are set to deport 14 people, including the activists, who were all arrested the previous day for violating Japan's immigration control law after some of them landed on one of the islands. (The image is partly altered)

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Japan to deport activists arrested over Senkaku landing

NAHA, Japan - Activists from a Hong Kong-based group seeking to assert China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, and other people, are escorted off a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel at a port in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2012. Japanese authorities are set to deport 14 people, including the activists, who were all arrested the previous day for violating Japan's immigration control law after some of them landed on one of the islands. (The image is partly altered)

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Japan to deport activists arrested over Senkaku landing

NAHA, Japan - Activists from a Hong Kong-based group seeking to assert China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, and other people, are escorted off a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel at a port in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2012. Japanese authorities are set to deport 14 people, including the activists, who were all arrested the previous day for violating Japan's immigration control law after some of them landed on one of the islands. (The image is partly altered)

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Police arrest Ichihashi, suspect in murder of British woman

TOKYO, Japan - A police vehicle carrying Tatsuya Ichihashi, the suspect in the 2007 murder of British language school teacher Lindsay Hawker, leaves JR Tokyo Station on Nov. 11, 2009, for a police station in Chiba Prefecture, where the investigative headquarters were set up. Ichihashi arrived from Osaka where he was arrested the previous day after spending two years and seven months on the run and having altered his appearance through cosmetic surgery.

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Police arrest Ichihashi, suspect in murder of British woman

OSAKA, Japan - Tatsuya Ichihashi (covered by black jacket), the suspect in the 2007 murder of British language school teacher Lindsay Hawker, is transferred from JR Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka to Chiba Prefecture, where the investigative headquarters were set up, on Nov. 10, 2009. The 30-year-old suspect spent two years and seven months on the run and altered his appearance through cosmetic surgery.

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Police arrest Ichihashi, suspect in murder of British woman

ICHIKAWA, Japan - Police officers at Gyotoku Police Station in Chiba Prefecture speak at a midnight news conference at the station about the arrest of Tatsuya Ichihashi, the suspect in the 2007 murder of British language school teacher Lindsay Hawker, on Nov. 11, 2009. The 30-year-old suspect spent two years and seven months on the run and altered his appearance through cosmetic surgery before his arrest the previous day in Osaka.

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NHK producer says LDP lawmakers used 'political pressure' on program

TOKYO, Japan - Satoru Nagai, chief producer of public broadcaster, wipes tears during a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 13, where he said that NHK altered a 2001 television program on a mock tribunal on Japan's use of wartime ''comfort women'' before it was aired four years ago because senior Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers exerted ''political pressure'' on NHK.

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Bread with fathers' portraits on sale in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - A bakery at a department store in Nagoya sells bread shaped to resemble men's faces to mark Father's Day on June 15. The bread is sold for 900 yen per piece. According to the bakery, hairstyle and other features can be altered at the request of customers.

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U.S. Navy modifies operation to lift Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. Navy Capt. Bert Marsh briefs reporters in Oahu, Hawaii, on Aug. 22 about an altered plan to lift the Ehime Maru, the Japanese high school fisheries training vessel sunk in a collision with a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine off Honolulu in February.

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Osaka mint begins production of new 500 yen coin

OSAKA, Japan - A new 500 yen coin (L), which went into production on April 26, is shown next to a 500 yen coin currently in circulation. The Finance Ministry decided to issue the new coin after an increasing number of fake coins were found in vending machines across the nation. In most cases, altered South Korean 500 won coins, worth about 48 yen, were used. A 500 won coin is the same size as a 500 yen coin but weighs slightly more.

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2 Hungarians held over using forint coins in vending machines

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Hungarian forint coins recovered from vending machines in the Tokyo area. Police arrested two men Nov. 18 on suspicion of stealing 3,000 yen by placing these coins in a vending machine and operating the return-coin lever. The Hungarian coins worth about 22 yen each have been altered to make them the same size and weight as 500 yen coins.

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

A rail bridge damaged by fire is seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Damaged structures and vehicles are seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Damaged structures are seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Burned cars and structures are seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Damaged structures are seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Damaged structures are seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Earth scorched by wildfire is seen along the Trans-Canada Highway above the Thompson River near Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

The remains of a structure is seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Damaged structures are seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Damaged vehicles and a structure is seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

A fire truck leads a bus down Main Street past damaged structures during a media tour in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Damaged structures are seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

A damaged structure is seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Damaged structures are seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire Damages In Lytton - British Colombia

Burned cars and structures are seen in Lytton, BC, Canada on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. Lytton residents and journalists toured the devastated town on Friday, more than one week after residents fled for their lives as a wildfire surged through town, killing two people. The town on the banks of the muddy Fraser River is dramatically altered. Only a handful of structures remain, including the post office and church, and there is a dreadful symmetry to the grey ruins. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM