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US: Cat Adorably High-Fives Young Girl From a Distance

On November 23, 2025, in the United States, a heartwarming clip showed a young Chinese girl reaching out her left hand to greet a cat. The cat surprisingly cooperated, raising its left paw as if giving the little girl a high-five from a distance, mimicking human etiquette.

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana, 9, holds a tablet showing a picture of himself before his injuries, inside his family’s tent in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana rests on a bed with his legs bandaged and his amputated hand visible in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana sits in his wheelchair beside his parents on a couch inside a tent in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana, 9, holds a tablet showing a picture of himself before his injuries, inside his family’s tent in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana rests on a bed as his parents gather around him in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana sits in a wheelchair inside a tent in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana, 9, sits in a wheelchair at the entrance of his family’s tent in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana lies on a bed inside his family’s tent as a woman tends to him, with a wheelchair placed nearby in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana rests on a bed with his legs bandaged and his amputated hand visible in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana rests on a bed as his parents gather around him in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana, 9, sits in his wheelchair as his mother gives him a glass of water inside a tent in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana sits in a wheelchair inside a tent in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana rests on a bed with his legs bandaged and his amputated hand visible in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Child Loses Arm in Israel Gaza Conflict

Asad al-Maidana rests on a bed with his legs bandaged and his amputated hand visible in al-Sawarha, central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025. He lost his left hand and suffered severe leg injuries when an Israeli missile struck while he was playing with friends. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PM Mark Carney Addresses Media Ahead of Inuit-Crown Meeting

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Taylor Ipana shake hands after she extended her left hand after reciting a prayer and presenting him with a book before a meeting of the Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee, in Inuvik, N.W.T., on Thursday, July 24, 2025. Photo by Darryl Dyck/THE CANADIAN PRESS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Aerial Rome - Italy

ITALY - ROMA - VATICAN - VATICAN GARDENS : IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL CENTER OF THE VATICAN STATE, THE MONUMENT TO ST. PETER, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY TO COMMEMORATE VATICAN COUNCIL I ON JANICULUM HILL. IN HIS LEFT HAND, THE KEYS OF THE HOLY CHURCH. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Aerial Rome - Italy

ITALY - ROMA - VATICAN - INTERIOR OF ST. PETER'S BASILICA - PHOTO POINT 3 : LA PIETA, MADE BY MICHELANGELO AT THE AGE OF 25. HE WAS SO PROUD THAT HE INSCRIBED IN LATIN ON THE BANDAGE WHICH CROSSES THE BREAST OF THE VIRGIN: "MICHEL ANGELO BUONARROTI, OF FLORENCE, DID IT." THIS IS THE ONLY WORK HE HAS SIGNED. IT COMES FROM A 1497 COMMISSION OF JEAN BILHERES DE LAGRAULAS, CARDINAL AND AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE TO THE POPE. IT WAS INTENDED TO ADORN THE FUNERARY MONUMENT OF THE CARDINAL IN THE CHAPEL OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE, ST. PETRONILLE, OF THE OLD BASILICA OF ST. PETER. ON MAY 21, 1972, SHE WAS BRUTALLY MUTILATED WITH A HAMMER BY A HUNGARIAN IMBALANCE, LAZLO TOTH. THE RESTORATION WORKS SHOW ON THE LEFT HAND OF THE VIRGIN THE MONOGRAM OF MICHELANGELO, REMAINED HIDDEN FOR NEARLY 500 YEARS: AN "M" DRAWN ON THE PALM WITH THE LINES OF THE HAND. SINCE THEN, THE SCULPTURE IS PROTECTED BY AN ARMORED GLASS. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Aerial Rome - Italy

ITALY - ROMA - VATICAN - INTERIOR OF ST. PETER'S BASILICA - PHOTO POINT 3 : LA PIETA, MADE BY MICHELANGELO AT THE AGE OF 25. HE WAS SO PROUD THAT HE INSCRIBED IN LATIN ON THE BANDAGE WHICH CROSSES THE BREAST OF THE VIRGIN: "MICHEL ANGELO BUONARROTI, OF FLORENCE, DID IT." THIS IS THE ONLY WORK HE HAS SIGNED. IT COMES FROM A 1497 COMMISSION OF JEAN BILHERES DE LAGRAULAS, CARDINAL AND AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE TO THE POPE. IT WAS INTENDED TO ADORN THE FUNERARY MONUMENT OF THE CARDINAL IN THE CHAPEL OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE, ST. PETRONILLE, OF THE OLD BASILICA OF ST. PETER. ON MAY 21, 1972, SHE WAS BRUTALLY MUTILATED WITH A HAMMER BY A HUNGARIAN IMBALANCE, LAZLO TOTH. THE RESTORATION WORKS SHOW ON THE LEFT HAND OF THE VIRGIN THE MONOGRAM OF MICHELANGELO, REMAINED HIDDEN FOR NEARLY 500 YEARS: AN "M" DRAWN ON THE PALM WITH THE LINES OF THE HAND. SINCE THEN, THE SCULPTURE IS PROTECTED BY AN ARMORED GLASS. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory - Rome

The ‘ Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory’ housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: - - - Burn marks left by the hands of the deceased P. Panzini, Abbot Olivetano of Mantua on 1 November 1731 on some objects belonging to the venerable mother Isabella Fornari, Abbess of the Poor Clares of the Monastery of San Francisco in Todi (Italy). One, of the left hand is on the tablet used by the Abbess for her work with a sign of the cross deeply engraved in the wood. The report of the fact is given by Fr. Isidoro Gazala of the Most Holy Crucifix, confessor of the venerable mother, to whom he ordered by obedience to cut the pieces of the cassock and the tablet, so that they could be preserved. - The tiny century-old ‘Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorio’ holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tableto

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The Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory - Rome

The ‘ Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory’ housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Burn marks left by the hand of the deceased P. Panzini, Abbot Olivetano of Mantua on 1 November 1731 on some objects belonging to the venerable mother Isabella Fornari, Abbess of the Poor Clares of the Monastery of San Francisco in Todi (Italy). One, of the left hand is on the tablet used by the Abbess for her work with a sign of the cross deeply engraved in the wood. The report of the fact is given by Fr. Isidoro Gazala of the Most Holy Crucifix, confessor of the venerable mother, to whom he ordered by obedience to cut the pieces of the cassock and the tablet, so that they could be preserved. - The tiny century-old ‘Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorio’ holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and

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The Oldest Short-Tailed Bird Fossil Discovered - China

Wang Min, a researcher with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), checks the sample of fossilized bird Baminornis zhenghensis at his office at IVPP in Beijing, capital of China, on February 10, 2025. The finger of his left hand points to the pygostyle fossil. Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's Fujian Province. This suggests that birds might have originated earlier than previously thought. The fossilized bird Baminornis zhenghensis was discovered in Zhenghe County, Fujian Province. Its short tail ends in a compound bone called the pygostyle, a feature uniquely present in modern birds. This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period, 20 million years earlier than previously known. The study, conducted by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) and the FIGS, wa

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Restored Apollo Belvedere returns to Vatican Museum

Vatican city shows the marble statue of "Apollo Belvedere" at the Vatican Museum on its return at his original place following its restoration, at the Vatican, The statue, discovered in Rome in 1489 on the Viminal Hill, was brought to the Vatican between 1508 and 1509 at the behest of Pope Julius II, who was setting up the Courtyard of Statues in Belvedere with a composite iconographic program focused on the mythical origins of ancient Rome. An extraordinary discovery in the 1950s allowed the recovery among the ruins of the imperial palace of Baia, north of Naples, which enabled the creation of faithful marble copies among these plaster fragments was recognized the missing left hand of the Apollo Belvedere. Vatican, on October 15, 2024. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Restored Apollo Belvedere returns to Vatican Museum

Vatican city shows the marble statue of "Apollo Belvedere" at the Vatican Museum on its return at his original place following its restoration, at the Vatican, The statue, discovered in Rome in 1489 on the Viminal Hill, was brought to the Vatican between 1508 and 1509 at the behest of Pope Julius II, who was setting up the Courtyard of Statues in Belvedere with a composite iconographic program focused on the mythical origins of ancient Rome. An extraordinary discovery in the 1950s allowed the recovery among the ruins of the imperial palace of Baia, north of Naples, which enabled the creation of faithful marble copies among these plaster fragments was recognized the missing left hand of the Apollo Belvedere. Vatican, on October 15, 2024. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Restored Apollo Belvedere returns to Vatican Museum

Vatican city shows the marble statue of "Apollo Belvedere" at the Vatican Museum on its return at his original place following its restoration, at the Vatican, The statue, discovered in Rome in 1489 on the Viminal Hill, was brought to the Vatican between 1508 and 1509 at the behest of Pope Julius II, who was setting up the Courtyard of Statues in Belvedere with a composite iconographic program focused on the mythical origins of ancient Rome. An extraordinary discovery in the 1950s allowed the recovery among the ruins of the imperial palace of Baia, north of Naples, which enabled the creation of faithful marble copies among these plaster fragments was recognized the missing left hand of the Apollo Belvedere. Vatican, on October 15, 2024. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Restored Apollo Belvedere returns to Vatican Museum

Vatican city shows the marble statue of "Apollo Belvedere" at the Vatican Museum on its return at his original place following its restoration, at the Vatican, The statue, discovered in Rome in 1489 on the Viminal Hill, was brought to the Vatican between 1508 and 1509 at the behest of Pope Julius II, who was setting up the Courtyard of Statues in Belvedere with a composite iconographic program focused on the mythical origins of ancient Rome. An extraordinary discovery in the 1950s allowed the recovery among the ruins of the imperial palace of Baia, north of Naples, which enabled the creation of faithful marble copies among these plaster fragments was recognized the missing left hand of the Apollo Belvedere. Vatican, on October 15, 2024. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Restored Apollo Belvedere returns to Vatican Museum

Vatican city shows the marble statue of "Apollo Belvedere" at the Vatican Museum on its return at his original place following its restoration, at the Vatican, The statue, discovered in Rome in 1489 on the Viminal Hill, was brought to the Vatican between 1508 and 1509 at the behest of Pope Julius II, who was setting up the Courtyard of Statues in Belvedere with a composite iconographic program focused on the mythical origins of ancient Rome. An extraordinary discovery in the 1950s allowed the recovery among the ruins of the imperial palace of Baia, north of Naples, which enabled the creation of faithful marble copies among these plaster fragments was recognized the missing left hand of the Apollo Belvedere. Vatican, on October 15, 2024. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Restored Apollo Belvedere returns to Vatican Museum

Vatican city shows the marble statue of "Apollo Belvedere" at the Vatican Museum on its return at his original place following its restoration, at the Vatican, The statue, discovered in Rome in 1489 on the Viminal Hill, was brought to the Vatican between 1508 and 1509 at the behest of Pope Julius II, who was setting up the Courtyard of Statues in Belvedere with a composite iconographic program focused on the mythical origins of ancient Rome. An extraordinary discovery in the 1950s allowed the recovery among the ruins of the imperial palace of Baia, north of Naples, which enabled the creation of faithful marble copies among these plaster fragments was recognized the missing left hand of the Apollo Belvedere. Vatican, on October 15, 2024. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Restored Apollo Belvedere returns to Vatican Museum

Vatican city shows the marble statue of "Apollo Belvedere" at the Vatican Museum on its return at his original place following its restoration, at the Vatican, The statue, discovered in Rome in 1489 on the Viminal Hill, was brought to the Vatican between 1508 and 1509 at the behest of Pope Julius II, who was setting up the Courtyard of Statues in Belvedere with a composite iconographic program focused on the mythical origins of ancient Rome. An extraordinary discovery in the 1950s allowed the recovery among the ruins of the imperial palace of Baia, north of Naples, which enabled the creation of faithful marble copies among these plaster fragments was recognized the missing left hand of the Apollo Belvedere. Vatican, on October 15, 2024. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Restored Apollo Belvedere returns to Vatican Museum

Vatican city shows the marble statue of "Apollo Belvedere" at the Vatican Museum on its return at his original place following its restoration, at the Vatican, The statue, discovered in Rome in 1489 on the Viminal Hill, was brought to the Vatican between 1508 and 1509 at the behest of Pope Julius II, who was setting up the Courtyard of Statues in Belvedere with a composite iconographic program focused on the mythical origins of ancient Rome. An extraordinary discovery in the 1950s allowed the recovery among the ruins of the imperial palace of Baia, north of Naples, which enabled the creation of faithful marble copies among these plaster fragments was recognized the missing left hand of the Apollo Belvedere. Vatican, on October 15, 2024. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baseball: Rays vs. Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani (C) looks at his left hand after he was hit by a pitch during a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays after winning the game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Aug. 25, 2024.

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Naomi Watts Introduce Her Anti-Aging Product Line - NY

Naomi Watts is spotted in conversation introducing her product line on anti-aging in Sag Harbor, NY, USA on August 15, 2024. A bandage can be seen covering her left hand. Photo by Iris Zimmerman/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Naomi Watts Introduce Her Anti-Aging Product Line - NY

Naomi Watts is spotted in conversation introducing her product line on anti-aging in Sag Harbor, NY, USA on August 15, 2024. A bandage can be seen covering her left hand. Photo by Iris Zimmerman/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baseball: Royals vs. Dodgers

Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers is at bat in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 16, 2024. He got hit by a pitch and suffered a broken left hand.

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Baseball: Royals vs. Dodgers

Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers writhes on the ground after being hit by a pitch in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 16, 2024. Betts suffered a broken left hand.

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Baseball: Royals vs. Dodgers

Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers writhes on the ground after being hit by a pitch in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 16, 2024. Betts suffered a broken left hand.

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The election reception of social movement presidential candidate Pekka Haavisto

Social movement presidential candidate Pekka Haavisto (middle) with party leader Sofia Virta (left, hand high), his spouse Antonio Flores (behind him left) and party member Panu Laturi (right) and parliament member Maria Ohisalo (down right), celebrating the results of the early-votes at his election reception in Helsinki, Finland, on January 28, 2024. LEHTIKUVA / ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo visits Ukraine

Deputy Minister of MFA Ukraine Yevhen Perebuyinis and Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (on the left-hand side) attend a wreath-laying ceremony at a memorial wall in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 23, 2023. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo is on one day visit to Kyiv. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Soviet emblem on Kyiv monument replaced

Photo taken from a drone on Aug. 20, 2023, shows the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, with the Ukrainian trident insignia being installed on a shield in the statue's left hand and the Ukrainian national flag seen on the right. The Soviet hammer and sickle symbol was removed in July for replacement, amid the Russian invasion of the country.

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Soviet emblem on Kyiv monument replaced

Photo taken from a drone on Aug. 20, 2023, shows the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, with the Ukrainian trident insignia being installed on a shield in the statue's left hand. The Soviet hammer and sickle symbol was removed in July for replacement, amid the Russian invasion of the country.

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Soviet emblem on Kyiv monument replaced

Photo taken from a drone on Aug. 20, 2023, shows the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, with the Ukrainian trident insignia being installed on a shield in the statue's left hand. The Soviet hammer and sickle symbol was removed in July for replacement, amid the Russian invasion of the country.

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Soviet emblem on Kyiv monument replaced

Photo taken from a drone on Aug. 20, 2023, shows the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, with the Ukrainian trident insignia being installed on a shield in the statue's left hand. The Soviet hammer and sickle symbol was removed in July for replacement, amid the Russian invasion of the country.

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Soviet emblem on Kyiv monument removed

Photo taken on July 29, 2023, shows the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, with the Soviet insignia on a shield in the statue's left hand being removed for replacement with the Ukrainian emblem amid the Russian invasion of the country.

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Soviet emblem on Kyiv monument removed

Photo taken on July 29, 2023, shows the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, with the Soviet insignia on a shield in the statue's left hand being removed for replacement with the Ukrainian emblem amid the Russian invasion of the country.

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Soviet emblem on Kyiv monument to be replaced

Photo taken July 13, 2023, shows the Motherland Monument in Kyiv. The Ukrainian government announced the same day that the Soviet insignia on a shield in the statue's left hand will be replaced to the Ukrainian emblem amid the Russian invasion of the country.

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Soviet emblem on Kyiv monument to be replaced

Ukrainian Culture and Information Policy Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko (foreground) speaks at a news conference in front of the Motherland Monument (top) in Kyiv on July 13, 2023. The government announced that the Soviet insignia on a shield in the statue's left hand will be replaced with the Ukrainian emblem amid the Russian invasion of the country.

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Soviet emblem on Kyiv monument to be replaced

Photo taken July 13, 2023, shows the Motherland Monument in Kyiv. The Ukrainian government announced the same day that the Soviet insignia on a shield in the statue's left hand will be replaced to the Ukrainian emblem amid the Russian invasion of the country.

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Soviet emblem on Kyiv monument to be replaced

Photo taken July 13, 2023, shows the Motherland Monument in Kyiv. The Ukrainian government announced the same day that the Soviet insignia on a shield in the statue's left hand will be replaced with the Ukrainian emblem amid the Russian invasion of the country.

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Nobel laureate Amano returns from Stockholm

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya University Professor Hiroshi Amano (L), who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, holds up the Nobel Prize medal in his left hand and a medal made from chocolate in his right, while his wife Kasumi holds the Nobel Prize diploma, at Chubu Centrair International Airport in central Japan on Dec. 16, 2014, upon arrival from Stockholm, Sweden, where he attended the award ceremony. He said, "The entire week was like a dream."

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - Police officers on July 28, 2014, carry a large item that looks like a mattress from the apartment building where a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered a high-school classmate two days earlier in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day. The victim's head and left hand were severed.