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Drones Drop Food in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - DECEMBER 29, 2024 - Tourists pick up food in front of a drone drop cabinet in Shanghai, China, December 29, 2024. Huangxing Park has installed a drone drop cabinet, visitors through the order of takeout, about 30 minutes later, the drone will be the delivery of tourists ordered food, visitors only need to enter the last four digits of their mobile phone number to retrieve the food.

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Drones Drop Food in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - DECEMBER 29, 2024 - Tourists pick up food in front of a drone drop cabinet in Shanghai, China, December 29, 2024. Huangxing Park has installed a drone drop cabinet, visitors through the order of takeout, about 30 minutes later, the drone will be the delivery of tourists ordered food, visitors only need to enter the last four digits of their mobile phone number to retrieve the food.

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Drones Drop Food in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - DECEMBER 29, 2024 - Tourists wait for an airdrop of food in Shanghai, China, December 29, 2024. Huangxing Park has installed a drone drop cabinet, visitors through the order of takeout, about 30 minutes later, the drone will be the delivery of tourists ordered food, visitors only need to enter the last four digits of their mobile phone number to retrieve the food.

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Drones Drop Food in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - DECEMBER 29, 2024 - A visitor uses his mobile phone to buy food at Huangxing Park in Shanghai, China, December 29, 2024. Huangxing Park has installed a drone drop cabinet, visitors through the order of takeout, about 30 minutes later, the drone will be the delivery of tourists ordered food, visitors only need to enter the last four digits of their mobile phone number to retrieve the food.

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Türkiye targets single digit inflation: vice president

STORY: Türkiye targets single digit inflation: vice president DATELINE: Aug. 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz at the meeting with representatives of the finance sector 2. various of Istanbul, Türkiye 3. various of people shopping in supermarkets in Istanbul 4. various of Turkish Central Bank STORYLINE: Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said on Friday the target of the government's medium-term economic program was to bring down the inflation from the current 47.83 percent to the single digits. Yilmaz made the remarks during a meeting with representatives of the finance sector in Türkiye's largest city, Istanbul. According to the Turkish statistics agency, Türkiye's annual inflation rose to 47.83 percent in July from 38.21 percent in June. The government downplayed concerns, describing this increase as a transitional process, adding that with the positive impact of the monetary policy stance, annual infla

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Turkish president vows to reduce inflation to single digits

STORY: Turkish president vows to reduce inflation to single digits DATELINE: June 18, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:12 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Istanbul city in Türkiye 2. various of the press conference by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, Türkiye 3. various of the press conference by the Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek in Ankara, Türkiye (file) STORYLINE: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that his government would focus on reducing inflation to single digits from the current nearly 40 percent. "The uncertainty of the election time is now over. Our hand is stronger," Erdogan told Turkish exporters during a meeting of the Turkish Exporters Assembly in Istanbul. "We will reduce the inflation, which has been a headache also for the world, to single digits... Our new economic leadership will prioritize this issue," he said. Türkiye's annual inflation fell to 39.59 percent in May after hitting a 24-year high of 85.

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About 35 mln people in U.S. South brace for heat wave

STORY: About 35 mln people in U.S. South brace for heat wave DATELINE: June 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:14 LOCATION: HOUSTON, U.S. CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of streets scenes of Houston STORYLINE: From the U.S. south-central state of Texas to southeastern Florida, about 35 million people are bracing for a widespread heat wave that is expected to last for days, the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) forecast on Thursday. The heat wave in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Florida is likely to break records and raise the risk of wildfires and heat-related illnesses, the weather service warned. "It wouldn't be an active summer weather pattern without oppressive heat and much of Texas and the Deep South will have plenty heading into the beginning of the holiday weekend," the NWS said in its forecast. A record-setting June heat wave is building up in many parts of Texas. The weather service said that high temperatures in the area could hit triple digits by early next week, earlier than average for th

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Italian wine sector recovering through high-end products

STORY: Italian wine sector recovering through high-end products DATELINE: April 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:48 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): ALESSANDRO LEONI, Head of Leoni Wine Consulting 2. various of the chateau 3. various of the store selling wine STORYLINE: As Italy's wine sector slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, higher-end wines are out-performing the rest of the sector, industry experts say. While France remains the world leader in terms of the overall value of wine production, last year Italy was the global winner based on the volume of wine produced, according to Italian wine analyst Giampietro Comolli. This was despite overall production remaining flat compared to a year before. Nevertheless, the Observatory of the Italian Wine Union (UIV) reported last week that exports of Italian wine are on the rise. Sales to distributors in the United States, Britain, Canada, and France all grew by double digits last year compared to 2021,

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Thousands of residents in U.S. Texas off power amid Arctic blast

STORY: Thousands of residents in U.S. Texas off power amid Arctic blast DATELINE: Dec. 24, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:16 LOCATION: HOUSTON, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of electrical facility in Houston, Texas 2. various of tents set up by homeless people in downtown Houston 3. various of George Brown Convention Center STORYLINE: Thousands of people were without power as the Arctic blast rushed into the south-central U.S. state of Texas on Thursday, bringing freezing temperatures expected to last through Christmas. As of 11:00 p.m. Central Time on Thursday (0600 GMT Friday), more than 91,500 customers lost power, according to the power outage tracking site poweroutage.us. Large parts of the northern Texas hub of Dallas were seen in the dark on Thursday night. A hard freeze warning went into effect in the evening, with temperatures dropping into the single digits Fahrenheit with winds gusting over 40 mph. The AccuWeather forecast that pockets of even stronger winds are possible in northern Te

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Dutch households buy fewer Christmas accessories due to inflation

STORY: Dutch households buy fewer Christmas accessories due to inflation DATELINE: Dec. 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:57 LOCATION: Amsterdam CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Christmas street views in Amsterdam STORYLINE: In the Netherlands, the last Saturday before Christmas is "Super Saturday," when many Dutch people choose to do their shopping for Christmas. Figures from Dutch market research agency GfK showed that Dutch households are buying fewer Christmas items this year as inflation has pushed up prices. The prices of Christmas items such as baubles, garlands and lightings have increased by double digits in the past two years. Artificial Christmas trees, for instance, are 10 percent more expensive this year. According to analysis, Dutch households are expected to buy less than last year but spend about the same - around 112 million euros in total. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Amsterdam. (XHTV)

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Japanese graduate student wins world Sudoku competition

BEIJING, China - Kota Morinishi (R), a University of Tokyo graduate student, holds a prize check after winning the 2012 Beijing International Sudoku Contest in Beijing on May 20, 2012. Sudoku, a numerical puzzle in which an 81-square grid must have each row and column filled with the digits from 1 to 9, was named by a Japanese publisher and has become highly popular in Europe and the United States, with an increasing number of devotees in China.

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Nagano man sets new record for calculating value of pi

NAGANO, Japan - Shigeru Kondo (front) holds his Guinness World Record certificate in Iida, Nagano Prefecture, on Oct. 16, 2011, awarded for calculating the value of pi to 10 trillion digits using a self-made personal computer, beating the previous record of five trillion digits he set in August 2010. Standing behind him is his wife Yukiko.

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China's defense budget to rise 7.5% in 2010

BEIJING, China - Li Zhaoxing, a spokesman for the annual session of the National People's Congress, speaks during a news conference in Beijing on March 4, 2010. China said it plans to increase military spending this year by 7.5 percent to 532.1 billion yuan ($77.94 billion), marking the first time in 22 years that the margin of growth in the defense budget will have fallen below double digits.

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Japanese man recites pi to 83,000 digits, sets new world record

CHIBA, Japan - Akira Haraguchi, 59, recites pi, or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, on July 1. He recited pi to 83,431 digits from July 1 to 2 in a new world record almost double the current Guinness Book record.

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Asashoryu moves into double digits at summer sumo

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Asashoryu (L) mugs Iwakiyama to preserve his unbeaten record with a 10th win heading into the final stretch of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on May 17.

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H Matsui delivers 10th blast

NEW YORK, United States - Hideki Matsui homered in the fifth inning to record double digits in home runs for his second straight season. The New York Yankees edged the Texas Rangers 7-6 at Yankee Stadium on June 4. (MLB)

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Türkiye halts easing cycle with one last interest rate cut

STORY: Türkiye halts easing cycle with one last interest rate cut DATELINE: Nov. 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:23 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Turkish central bank 2. various of Turkish Lira and U.S. Dollar 3. various of people on the street 4. various of meat and bread STORYLINE: The Turkish central bank ended the easing cycle in benchmark rate with the last cut by 150 basis points to nine percent on Thursday. The central bank's Monetary Policy Committee said in a statement that "considering the increasing risks regarding global demand, the Committee evaluated that the current policy rate is adequate and decided to end the rate cut cycle that started in August." The central bank had kept the interest rate at 14 percent for eight months this year and started to lower it since August, while Türkiye's annual inflation hit 85.51 percent in October, the highest in 24 years. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had pledged to bring rates into single digits before the end of this

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BELGIUM-BRUSSELS-EUROZONE-INFLATION

(221101) -- BRUSSELS, Nov. 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Customers line up at a frites shop in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct. 31, 2022. Inflation in the 19-member eurozone is expected to continue rising in October, hitting double digits, against the backdrop of slowing economic growth in the third quarter of 2022, Eurostat, the European Union's (EU) statistical office, said in a flash estimate on Monday. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)

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Italy's inflation reaches nearly 40-yr high in October: statistics

STORY: Italy's inflation reaches nearly 40-yr high in October: statistics DATELINE: Nov. 1, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:31 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the views in Rome STORYLINE: Prices in Italy jumped by 11.9 percent in October compared to the same month a year ago, the highest in nearly four decades, according to provisional data released by the National Statistics Institute (ISTAT) on Friday. The figure was 3 percentage points above the then-record 8.9-percent of annual inflation in September, and it was the highest since 1983 in Italy. It was also the first time that the country's inflation experienced double digits since Italy's adoption of the euro currency in 1999. The main driver behind the price increase was the rising energy costs sparked by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. But even the "core" inflation rate -- which excludes energy and food costs given their susceptibility to international market forces -- rose by 5.3 percent in October. Costs for service

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Spain's inflation remains over 10 pct in August

STORY: Spain's inflation remains over 10 pct in August DATELINE: Aug. 31, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of supermarket 2. various of restaurant 3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): NADIA CALVINO, Spain's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Economy 4. various of electricity grid 5. various of metro station 6. various of street view STORYLINE: Spain's inflation rate fell by 0.4 percent to 10.4 percent in August, but remains above 10 percent for a third consecutive month, according to preliminary data published by the Spanish Statistical Office (INE) on Tuesday. The data, which will be confirmed on Sept. 13, ends a run of three consecutive months of price rises, although inflation remains in double-digits. The INE says August's slight fall in inflation is mainly due to a drop in the prices of gasoline and other liquid fuels, which offset increases in the cost of electricity, food, dining in restaurants and bars, and holidays. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): NADIA CALVIN

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Medics leave Shanghai after completing aid mission

STORY: Medics leave Shanghai after completing aid mission DATELINE: May 30, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:02 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY/HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. Shanghai residents welcoming medics aiding Shanghai's fight against COVID-19 2. various of medics aiding Shanghai's fight against COVID-19 3. various of medics aiding Shanghai leaving STORYLINE: Tens of thousands of medics from across China have rushed to Shanghai to aid the anti-pandemic battle. So far, most of them have completed their mission. On Monday, two medical teams sent to Shanghai set out, heading for home in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Shanxi Province. In early March, Shanghai witnessed a new wave of infections caused by Omicron variants. By mid-April, the number of daily infections had leaped from single digits to over 27,000. So far, Shanghai has cut off the community transmission of COVID-19 in all its 16 districts as the megacity accelerates its business resumption. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Shang

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CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-DAILY LIFE-COVID-19 (CN)

(220117) -- XI'AN, Jan. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People line up to buy food at a booth in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 17, 2022. People's life in Xi'an has been gradually back on track in some parts of the city as the new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases dropped to single digits in a sixth consecutive day on Sunday. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)

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CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-DAILY LIFE-COVID-19 (CN)

(220117) -- XI'AN, Jan. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People have their hair cut at an open-air area in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 17, 2022. People's life in Xi'an has been gradually back on track in some parts of the city as the new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases dropped to single digits in a sixth consecutive day on Sunday. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)

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CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-DAILY LIFE-COVID-19 (CN)

(220117) -- XI'AN, Jan. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Staff members prepare food for delivery at a snack booth in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 17, 2022. People's life in Xi'an has been gradually back on track in some parts of the city as the new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases dropped to single digits in a sixth consecutive day on Sunday. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)

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CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-EPIDEMIC SITUATION-IMPROVING (CN)

(220114) -- XI'AN, Jan. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Jan. 14, 2022 shows residents exercising on a rooftop at a residential area in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. With cases in the single digits for three straight days and fewer medium-risk areas for COVID-19, Xian's overall epidemic situation is improving. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)

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CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-EPIDEMIC SITUATION-IMPROVING (CN)

(220114) -- XI'AN, Jan. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Citizens exercise in the open air within their community classified as a low-risk area for COVID-19 in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 11, 2021. With cases in the single digits for three straight days and fewer medium-risk areas for COVID-19, Xian's overall epidemic situation is improving. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)

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CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-EPIDEMIC SITUATION-IMPROVING (CN)

(220114) -- XI'AN, Jan. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Jan. 13, 2022 shows residents exercising on a rooftop at a residential area in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. With cases in the single digits for three straight days and fewer medium-risk areas for COVID-19, Xian's overall epidemic situation is improving. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)

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CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-EPIDEMIC SITUATION-IMPROVING (CN)

(220114) -- XI'AN, Jan. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Jan. 13, 2022 shows residents playing table tennis on a rooftop at a residential area in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. With cases in the single digits for three straight days and fewer medium-risk areas for COVID-19, Xian's overall epidemic situation is improving. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)

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CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-EPIDEMIC SITUATION-IMPROVING (CN)

(220114) -- XI'AN, Jan. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Jan. 14, 2022 shows residents playing badminton on a rooftop at a residential area in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. With cases in the single digits for three straight days and fewer medium-risk areas for COVID-19, Xian's overall epidemic situation is improving. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)

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Asashoryu moves into double digits at summer sumo

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Asashoryu (L) mugs Iwakiyama to preserve his unbeaten record with a 10th win heading into the final stretch of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on May 17. (Kyodo)

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Japanese man recites pi to 83,000 digits, sets new world record

CHIBA, Japan - Akira Haraguchi, 59, recites pi, or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, on July 1. He recited pi to 83,431 digits from July 1 to 2 in a new world record almost double the current Guinness Book record. (Kyodo)

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H Matsui delivers 10th blast

NEW YORK, United States - Hideki Matsui homered in the fifth inning to record double digits in home runs for his second straight season. The New York Yankees edged the Texas Rangers 7-6 at Yankee Stadium on June 4. (MLB) (Kyodo)

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China's defense budget to rise 7.5% in 2010

BEIJING, China - Li Zhaoxing, a spokesman for the annual session of the National People's Congress, speaks during a news conference in Beijing on March 4, 2010. China said it plans to increase military spending this year by 7.5 percent to 532.1 billion yuan ($77.94 billion), marking the first time in 22 years that the margin of growth in the defense budget will have fallen below double digits. (Kyodo)

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Nagano man sets new record for calculating value of pi

NAGANO, Japan - Shigeru Kondo (front) holds his Guinness World Record certificate in Iida, Nagano Prefecture, on Oct. 16, 2011, awarded for calculating the value of pi to 10 trillion digits using a self-made personal computer, beating the previous record of five trillion digits he set in August 2010. Standing behind him is his wife Yukiko. (Kyodo)

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Japanese graduate student wins world Sudoku competition

BEIJING, China - Kota Morinishi (R), a University of Tokyo graduate student, holds a prize check after winning the 2012 Beijing International Sudoku Contest in Beijing on May 20, 2012. Sudoku, a numerical puzzle in which an 81-square grid must have each row and column filled with the digits from 1 to 9, was named by a Japanese publisher and has become highly popular in Europe and the United States, with an increasing number of devotees in China. (Kyodo)

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Shohei Ohtani career highlights

Shohei Ohtani of the Nippon Ham Fighters pitching (L) on Aug. 26, 2014, for his 10th win of the season, and (R) hitting his 10th home run of the season on Sept. 7 that year. Ohtani became the first player in Japanese baseball history to reach double digits in both categories in a single season. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo