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China: Wedding Feast Carries On as Heavy Rain Floods Venue in Shaanxi

This unforgettable scene was captured in Weinan, Shaanxi Province, on May 18, 2026. It looks like a party on a river, but it’s actually an outdoor wedding feast. A sudden heavy downpour flooded the square with dozens of centimeters of water. Relatives and friends sit around dozens of round tables, watching the ceremony and waiting for the meal. Thankfully, the organizers set up cozy canopies and fences, keeping guests dry. Rain can’t stop love and blessings—everyone shows up in the storm to celebrate the newlyweds.

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New Zealand: Landslide Hits Mount Maunganui 3

Six people, including two teenagers, are missing after a major landslide struck a local campground in Mount Maunganui on Thursday, January 22. Police are also seeking information on three others as search and rescue operations continue in a dangerous environment, with authorities describing the incident as a national tragedy and the community rallying to support affected families.

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Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi Triggers Severe Flooding, Displacing Thousands 2

Severe flooding has submerged towns and displaced hundreds of thousands as Typhoon Kalmaegi battered the central Philippines. Rivers overflowed in Cebu and nearby islands, forcing residents onto rooftops while cars and containers were swept through the streets. Local officials said some evacuation centers were inundated, and many survivors of a recent earthquake had to be evacuated again. More than 380,000 people fled their homes across the Visayas, southern Luzon, and northern Mindanao. Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, made landfall late Monday, November 3 with winds of up to 130 kph before moving toward the South China Sea on Tuesday, November 4.

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China: Tourists and Locals Rescue Yaks from Mud Pit in Qinghai

In Qinghai, China, tourists and locals joined forces with an excavator operator to rescue four yaks stuck in deep mud on September 30, 2025. After spotting the trapped animals, the tourists alerted a herdsman and enlisted help from a nearby construction site. Working for nearly an hour, they freed all four yaks safely. The herdsman said the rescue prevented losses of over RMB 40,000.

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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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China: Typhoon Wutip Darkens Hainan Skies Ahead of Landfall in Hainan

This is the terrifying moment a massive wall of dark clouds engulfed the skies over Hainan as Typhoon Wutip approached southern China. On June 11, 2025, in Hainan, China, video captured thick, menacing clouds rolling in ahead of Typhoon Wutip's landfall. The sky turned eerily dark as the season’s first typhoon neared, creating a heavy, ominous atmosphere. The storm made landfall around 11 p.m. on June 13 along the coast of Dongfang, a city in Hainan, with winds reaching up to 30 meters per second and a central pressure of 980 hPa. Heavy rain swept through southern parts of the island, with some areas experiencing torrential downpours and localized extreme rainfall. According to China National Radio, by June 15, Typhoon Wutip had weakened into a tropical depression after moving inland into Jiangxi Province, and continued to lose strength. The video ends with the storm clouds blanketing the landscape as residents brace for the typhoon’s impact.

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Japan: Heavy Snowfall Hits Sea Of Japan Coast 4

Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. This video shows blizzard conditions in the city Otaru, Hokkaido.

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US: EF-1 Tornado Touches Down In Athens, AL, Leaving Devastating Damage

The National Weather Service in Huntsville has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in downtown Athens, Alabama, on Saturday night, December 28.

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Philippines: Typhoon Yinxing Makes Landfall In Cagayan, Damaging Infrastructure 3

Typhoon Yinxing, known as Marce in the Philippines, made landfall near Santa Ana, Cagayan, on Thursday afternoon, November 7, forcing more than 21,000 people to evacuate and damaging two domestic airports and homes. Telecommunications and power supplies have remained down due to damaged cables and power lines, severely affecting residents in the affected areas.

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Philippines: Typhoon Yinxing Makes Landfall In Cagayan, Damaging Infrastructure 2

Typhoon Yinxing, known as Marce in the Philippines, made landfall near Santa Ana, Cagayan, on Thursday afternoon, November 7, forcing more than 21,000 people to evacuate and damaging two domestic airports and homes. Telecommunications and power supplies have remained down due to damaged cables and power lines, severely affecting residents in the affected areas.

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Thailand: Overflowing Of Ping River Causes Flooding In Chiang Mai Amid Rainy Season 3

Water levels in the Ping River rose, causing severe flooding across Chiang Mai on September 25 and affecting infrastructure. Small vehicles were stranded on flooded roads, and local shops and stalls were forced to close.

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US: Beryl Causes Widespread Power Outages And Flooding, Leaves Multiple Dead In Texas 4

Beryl has weakened into a tropical storm after making landfall as a category 1 hurricane near Matagorda in Texas, on Monday, July 8, shortly before 4 a.m. local time. The hurricane caused power outages and life-threatening flooding and left multiple dead in Houston and the surrounding areas.

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Former US Senator Joe Lieberman Dies At 82

File photo - United States Senator Joseph Lieberman (Independent Democrat of Connecticut), listens as General John R. Allen, USMC, Commander, International Security Assistance Force and Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, testifies on the situation in Afghanistan before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, March 22, 2012. - Former US Senator and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman has died at 82. The cause was complications from a fall, according to a family statement obtained by CBS News, the BBC's US partner. The centrist represented the state of Connecticut in the Senate for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr Lieberman became the first Jewish politician to join a major party US presidential ticket in 2000 when Al Gore selected him as his running mate. Photo by Ron Sachs / CNP /ABACAPRESS.COM

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US: Days-Long Winter Storm Dumps Heavy Snow On Sierra Nevada, Closing Roads, Schools

A days-long winter storm dumped heavy snow on the Sierra Nevada, closing major highways, ski resorts, and schools in parts of California. More than 10 feet of snow and hurricane-force wind gusts of 170 mph-plus were reported.

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US: Strong Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Sierra Nevada

A strong winter storm hit the Sierra Nevada on Friday, March 1, bringing heavy snow and high winds. Blizzard Warnings were issued for the Sierra, including Lake Tahoe and eastern Nevada. The Sierra Avalanche Center warned that the danger of avalanches was high. Yosemite National Park and many ski resorts in the region announced they were closing at least for the day.

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Children plant trees in 2011 quake-hit area

YAMADA, Japan - Nursery school children plant young trees in the 2011 earthquake-hit town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 22, 2014. The trees were grown by kindergartners and nursery school children nationwide from the acorns picked up by children in the disaster-stricken areas in the fall of 2012.

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Peach Aviation struggles with pilot shortage

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken in February 2012 shows a Peach Aviation Ltd. aircraft over Kansai International Airport near Osaka. Peach is facing headwinds in its business, with a massive cancellation of flights starting on May 19, 2014, that will last through the fall, as the Japanese budget carrier has failed to secure enough pilots amid increasing demand for flights.

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Toshiba's profit rises 10%

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Kubo, senior managing director of Toshiba Corp., releases the company's earnings report for fiscal 2012 at a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013. Toshiba's group net profit for the year to March 31, 2013, rose 10.7 percent from the previous year to 77.53 billion yen despite a 4.9 percent fall in sales to 5.8 trillion yen.

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Japan preps for N. Korea rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) is pictured on Dec. 7, 2012, after inspecting Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptors deployed on the premises of the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Japan stepped up preparations the same day for a long-range rocket that North Korea has said it will launch sometime during a 13-day period from Dec. 10, ordering the destruction of the projectile should any part of it threaten to fall on Japanese territory.

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Japan preps for N. Korean rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (facing, 2nd from L) speaks to members of the Self-Defense Forces on Dec. 7, 2012, in front of a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor deployed on the premises of the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Japan stepped up preparations the same day for a long-range rocket that North Korea has said it will launch sometime during a 13-day period from Dec. 10, ordering the destruction of the projectile should any part of it threaten to fall on Japanese territory.

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Japan preps for N. Korea rocket launch

NAHA, Japan - A Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor is unloaded from the military transport ship Osumi at Nakagusukuwan port in the city of Okinawa on Dec. 7, 2012. Japan stepped up preparations the same day for a long-range rocket North Korea has said it will launch sometime during a 13-day period from Dec. 10, ordering the destruction of the projectile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory.

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Japan preps for N. Korea rocket launch

NAHA, Japan - A Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor is unloaded from the military transport ship Osumi at Nakagusukuwan port in the city of Okinawa on Dec. 7, 2012. Japan stepped up preparations the same day for a long-range rocket North Korea has said it will launch sometime during a 13-day period from Dec. 10, ordering the destruction of the projectile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory.

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Japan preps for N. Korea rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 7, 2012, shows a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor deployed on the premises of the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Japan stepped up preparations the same day for a long-range rocket North Korea has said it will launch sometime during a 13-day period from Dec. 10, ordering the destruction of the projectile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory.

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Japan preps for N. Korea rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - A meeting is held at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2012. Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto ordered the same day the destruction of a projectile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory, stepping up preparations for a long-range rocket North Korea has said it will launch sometime during a 13-day period from Dec. 10.

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Japan preps for N. Korea rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 7, 2012, shows Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptors deployed on the premises of the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Japan stepped up preparations the same day for a long-range rocket North Korea has said it will launch sometime during a 13-day period from Dec. 10, ordering the destruction of the projectile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory.

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Japan preps for N. Korea rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto speaks during a meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2012. Morimoto ordered the same day the destruction of a projectile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory, stepping up preparations for a long-range rocket North Korea has said it will launch sometime during a 13-day period from Dec. 10.

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Noda staves off fall from campaign truck

ANJO, Japan - Body guards help Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda stave off a fall from an election campaign truck in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, on Nov. 26, 2012, when Noda was climbing up to the vehicle and a rail he grabbed accidentally came off. Noda later said in a stump speech from the truck ahead of the Dec. 16 general election, "I'm sorry about the accident, but the Democratic Party of Japan will not fall. It will claw its way up."

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Japan's biggest cable TV operator to merge with No. 2

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Takahashi (L), senior vice president of KDDI Corp., and Yoshio Osawa, director, senior managing executive officer of Sumitomo Corp., shake hands in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. Sumitomo and KDDI that day said they will merge their cable TV services by integrating Japan's biggest cable television operator Jupiter Telecommunications Co. and second-largest cable TV operator Japan Cablenet Ltd. around fall 2013.

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Group of nonpartisan lawmakers visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Yuichiro Hata (C) is pictured after paying homage at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2012. To the left is former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Makoto Koga. Lawmakers of a nonpartisan group, including Hata and another Cabinet minister, visited the Shinto shrine dedicated to the war-dead on the occasion of its fall festival.

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Group of nonpartisan lawmakers visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Postal privatization minister Mikio Shimoji (C back) is pictured at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2012. Lawmakers of a nonpartisan group, including Shimoji and another Cabinet minister, visited the Shinto shrine dedicated to the war-dead on the occasion of its fall festival.

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Group of nonpartisan lawmakers visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmakers of a nonpartisan group visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2012, on the occasion of its fall festival. Two Cabinet ministers were among the visitors to the Shinto shrine dedicated to the war-dead.

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Group of nonpartisan lawmakers visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmakers of a nonpartisan group visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2012, on the occasion of its fall festival. Two Cabinet ministers were among the visitors to the Shinto shrine dedicated to the war-dead.

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LDP chief Abe visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Abe, leader of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, is surrounded by reporters after visiting Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines many of Japan's war dead including some Class-A war criminals, in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2012, on the occasion of the shrine's grand festival in fall.

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LDP chief Abe visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Abe (L), leader of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, visits Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines many of Japan's war dead including some Class-A war criminals, in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2012, on the occasion of the shrine's grand festival in fall.

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Uniqlo to set up $10 mil. fund to help children

TOKYO, Japan - Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic (L) and Tadashi Yanai, chairman of Fast Retailing Co., the parent company of casual clothing chain operator Uniqlo Co., shake hands in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2012, as Uniqlo announces its plan to establish a $10 million fund to help improve the lives of children around the world. Uniqlo said it will raise funds for the "Clothes for Smiles" project through sales of its Heattech innerwear and Ultra Light Down jackets this fall and winter.

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Softbank unveils new smartphones

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Mobile Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son unveils a dozen new mobile phones to be launched from the fall of 2012 through the spring of 2013, including six smartphones that can access the mobile carrier's high-speed data communication network, during an event in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2012.

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Softbank unveils new smartphones

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Mobile Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son unveils a dozen new mobile phones to be launched from the fall of 2012 through the spring of 2013, including six smartphones that can access the mobile carrier's high-speed data communication network, during an event in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2012.

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Japan, Russia agree to arrange Noda's Russia trip in Dec.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold talks in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 8, 2012. They agreed to arrange a visit to Russia by Noda in December and a vice minister-level meeting between the two countries in the fall as part of efforts to address a long-standing territorial dispute. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan, Russia agree to arrange Noda's Russia trip in Dec.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold talks in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 8, 2012. They agreed to arrange a visit to Russia by Noda in December and a vice minister-level meeting between the two countries in the fall as part of efforts to address a long-standing territorial dispute. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan, Russia agree to arrange Noda's Russia trip in Dec.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands ahead of talks in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 8, 2012. They agreed to arrange a visit to Russia by Noda in December and a vice minister-level meeting between the two countries in the fall as part of efforts to address a long-standing territorial dispute. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Nomura reports sharp drop in group net profit for April-June

TOKYO, Japan - Junko Nakagawa (L), chief financial officer of Nomura Holdings Inc., speaks during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on July 26, 2012. The parent company of Nomura Securities Co., Japan's largest securities house, said the same day its group net profit in the April-June quarter fell 89.4 percent from a year before to 1.89 billion yen, dragged down by a fall in commission revenue and its sluggish wholesale division amid the European debt crisis.

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BOJ refrains from more easing

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa enters the central bank's head office in Tokyo on July 12, 2012. The BOJ decided later in the day to refrain from taking additional monetary easing steps amid encouraging signs in the domestic economy, while downgrading its forecast for the country's core consumer price index in fiscal 2012 on the back of the recent fall in crude oil prices. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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SDF told to prepare for N. Korea's rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka answers reporters' questions at the ministry in Tokyo on March 27, 2012, concerning his order earlier in the day for the Self-Defense Forces to prepare for the possible fall of a North Korean rocket, suspected to be a long-range ballistic missile, on Japanese territory in mid-April.

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Empress chose kimono to support emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko bow to bereaved families of victims of the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the disaster. The empress chose to wear a kimono and Japanese sandals so she could move more easily to support the emperor, who had been discharged from the hospital a week earlier after undergoing heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, in the event he were to fall, a senior Imperial Household Agency official said on March 15. (Pool photo)

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Todaiji festival

NARA, Japan - Sparks fall from a giant torch held by a bearer leading a group of Buddhist monks passing the outer corridors of Nigatsudo hall at Todaiji temple in Nara on March 12, 2012, as part of the temple's Omizutori festival.

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WWII bomb shelter in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Photo taken Feb. 4, 2012, shows a bomb shelter built around 1940 in Singapore. The shelter, to which more than 100 people are said to have evacuated during Japanese air raids, was open to visitors for the first time the same day as part of events to commemorate the 70th anniversary on Feb. 15 of the fall of Singapore during World War II.

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WWII bomb shelter in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Photo taken Feb. 4, 2012, shows a bomb shelter built around 1940 in Singapore. The shelter, to which more than 100 people are said to have evacuated during Japanese air raids, was open to visitors for the first time the same day as part of events to commemorate the 70th anniversary on Feb. 15 of the fall of Singapore during World War II.

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Univ. of Tokyo President Hamada in interview

TOKYO, Japan - University of Tokyo President Junichi Hamada speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2012. Hamada said the university will call on other national universities to join discussions over a plan to change the start of the academic year to fall from spring.

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Japanese universities consider big change to academic year

TOKYO, Japan - University of Tokyo President Junichi Hamada (L) speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2012, over a plan to shift the beginning of its academic year to fall from spring. Results released Jan. 25, 2012, of a Kyodo News survey showed more than 40 percent of Japan's national universities, as well as many of the country's top private universities, will consider following the University of Tokyo's lead in switching to start their academic year in the autumn.

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Japanese universities consider big change to academic year

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows students and others attending the University of Tokyo's entrance ceremony in Tokyo in April 2010. Results released Jan. 25, 2012, of a Kyodo News survey showed more than 40 percent of Japan's national universities, as well as many of the country's top private universities, will consider following the University of Tokyo's lead in switching the start of their academic year from spring to fall.