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China: Veteran Rescues Driver from Sinking Car in Jiangsu 2

On October 14, 2025, in Taizhou, Jiangsu, a retired soldier jumped into a river and smashed a car window with a brick to save a trapped driver, pulling them to safety as bystanders watched.

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Nigeria: Police Use Tear Gas on Protesters Demanding Nnamdi Kanu’s Release

Nigerian police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators who gathered in the capital, Abuja, on Monday, October 20, demanding the release of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu. The #FreeNnamdiKanu protests oppose the continued detention of Kanu, who remains in custody since 2021 on terrorism charges.

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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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Families Mourn Airstrike Victims - Gaza

A woman weeps as she is embraced by a man outside a funeral in Gaza City on August 16, 2025. Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed 17 Palestinians, including several children, while the ongoing blockade and famine claimed the life of a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy. Photo by Saeed Jaras/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Families Mourn Airstrike Victims - Gaza

A woman weeps as she is embraced by a man outside a funeral in Gaza City on August 16, 2025. Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed 17 Palestinians, including several children, while the ongoing blockade and famine claimed the life of a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy. Photo by Saeed Jaras/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Families Mourn Airstrike Victims - Gaza

A woman weeps as she is embraced by a man outside a funeral in Gaza City on August 16, 2025. Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed 17 Palestinians, including several children, while the ongoing blockade and famine claimed the life of a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy. Photo by Saeed Jaras/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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US: Gold Fire Spurs Evacuation Order Near Big Bear, California

The Gold Fire, a brush fire in the San Bernardino County area of Holcomb Valley near Big Bear, erupted Monday morning, August 4. No structures have been threatened, but evacuation order was in effect for the Holcomb Campground as firefighters continued to battle the blaze.

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US: Severe Weather Brings Heavy Rain, Causing Flash Flooding in Iowa 2

Severe weather swept through Iowa on Friday, July 11, bringing the threat of tornadoes and flash flooding to the area. At Iowa Speedway in Newton, the IndyCar practice session was suspended due to a tornado warning. This video shows flooded roads in Davenport.

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US: Strong Winds, Heavy Rain Lash Philadelphia Region 2

Severe thunderstorms moved across Pennsylvania on Monday, June 30, bringing heavy rains and strong winds to affected areas, including the Philadelphia region, and prompting flash flood warnings.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 7

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts. This video shows a man trying to save his mowers from the flooding.

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US: Greer Fire in Eastern Arizona Prompts Evacuations, Road Closures

A wildfire raged in Greer, Eastern Arizona, on Tuesday, May 13, burning over 3,600 acres. The fire prompted evacuations and road closures and reportedly destroyed multiple structures.

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Butter Week celebration in Kyivs Pyrohiv Folk Museum

A man and a woman set an effigy on fire to mark the end of the Kolodii. Masnytsia festival at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine in Pyrohiv in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 1, 2025, on the weekend of Butter Week before Great Lent. (Photo by Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform)

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Butter Week celebration in Kyivs Pyrohiv Folk Museum

A woman ties a stick to the arm of a man who is single as part of a ritual during the Kolodii. Masnytsia festival at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine in Pyrohiv in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 1, 2025, on the weekend of Butter Week before Great Lent. (Photo by Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform)

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Butter Week celebration in Kyivs Pyrohiv Folk Museum

A woman ties a stick to the leg of a man who is single as part of a ritual during the Kolodii. Masnytsia festival at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine in Pyrohiv in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 1, 2025, on the weekend of Butter Week before Great Lent. (Photo by Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform)

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Butter Week celebration in Kyivs Pyrohiv Folk Museum

A man and a woman stand by a stove during the Kolodii. Masnytsia festival at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine in Pyrohiv in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 1, 2025, on the weekend of Butter Week before Great Lent. (Photo by Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform)

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Butter Week celebration in Kyivs Pyrohiv Folk Museum

A woman ties a stick to the leg of a man who is single as part of a ritual during the Kolodii. Masnytsia festival at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine in Pyrohiv in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 1, 2025, on the weekend of Butter Week before Great Lent. (Photo by Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform)

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Butter Week celebration in Kyivs Pyrohiv Folk Museum

A man and a woman set an effigy on fire to mark the end of the Kolodii. Masnytsia festival at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine in Pyrohiv in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 1, 2025, on the weekend of Butter Week before Great Lent. (Photo by Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform)

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Indonesia: Overflowing Ciliwung River Causes Widespread Flooding In Jakarta

The Ciliwung River overflowed due to heavy rainfall, triggering flash floods in South and East Jakarta on Monday, March 3. Residents in Kampung Melayu Village, East Jakarta, were evacuated as floodwaters rose.

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US: Pileup Closes Interstate 70 In Southern Illinois

A multiple-car pileup occurred on Interstate 70 near Greenup, Illinois, on Sunday, January 5, forcing the closure of the highway in both directions.

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US: 2 Dead, 19 Injured In Small Plane Crash Near Fullerton Airport

Two people were killed, and 19 others were injured following a small plane crash near Fullerton Airport in Orange County on Thursday, January 2.

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Kordon Race in Lviv

LVIV, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 14, 2024 - A woman stands by a man with a prosthetic leg who won a medal during the Fifth Kordon Race in the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Park of Culture and Leisure, Lviv, western Ukraine. The Kordon Race is both an obstacle race and masterclasses aimed at adapting to life in a warring country.

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UK: Storm Bert Triggers Severe Flooding Across England And Wales 2

Storm Bert struck England and Wales on Saturday, November 23, bringing heavy rain, power outages, and traffic disruptions, while triggering severe flooding in multiple regions. Over 100 flood warnings were issued across the UK. This video shows the rising river in Ludlow, Shropshire.

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US: Cold Front Brings Snow, Low Temperatures To Northern Utah

A winter weather advisory was in effect for northern Utah on Saturday, November 16, as a cold front moved through, bringing snow and low temperatures to the area.

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Taiwan: Rain And Winds Pick Up As Typhoon Krathon Approaches

Rain and winds started to pick up in Taipei on Monday, September 30 as Typhoon Krathon approached Taiwan.

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US: Crater Road Fire In Maui Burns More Than 400 Acres

The Crater Road Fire, a brush fire that erupted on Wednesday, July 10, has burned over 400 acres one mile from the Haleakala National Park entrance In Hawaii's Maui island. Staff residents of the park were evacuated on Thursday. Crews were battling the fire since Wednesday evening but were able to contain 50% of the blaze as of 17:30 on Thursday.

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US: Crater Road Fire In Maui Burns More Than 400 Acres 3

The Crater Road Fire, a brush fire that erupted on Wednesday, July 10, has burned over 400 acres one mile from the Haleakala National Park entrance In Hawaii's Maui island. Staff residents of the park were evacuated on Thursday. Crews were battling the fire since Wednesday evening but were able to contain 50% of the blaze as of 17:30 on Thursday.

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US: Crater Road Fire In Maui Burns More Than 400 Acres 2

The Crater Road Fire, a brush fire that erupted on Wednesday, July 10, has burned over 400 acres one mile from the Haleakala National Park entrance In Hawaii's Maui island. Staff residents of the park were evacuated on Thursday. Crews were battling the fire since Wednesday evening but were able to contain 50% of the blaze as of 17:30 on Thursday.

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Women, boy stabbed at school bus stop near Shanghai

Photo taken on June 25, 2024, shows a bus stop in Suzhou near Shanghai a day after a Japanese woman, her son and a Chinese woman were stabbed by a man there. The two Japanese were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries while the Chinese woman is in a serious condition.

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Women, boy stabbed at school bus stop near Shanghai

Security officers stand guard in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on June 25, 2024, a day after a Japanese woman, her son and a Chinese woman were stabbed by a man at a school bus stop in Suzhou near Shanghai. The two Japanese were taken to a hospital and their injuries are not life-threatening while the Chinese woman is in a serious condition.

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US: Fast-Moving ‘Post Fire’ Rages In Gorman, Southern California

A brush fire, dubbed the Post Fire, that broke out near Interstate 5 in Gorman, Southern California on Saturday, June 15, quickly spread due to strong winds and burned thousands of acres and forced evacuations. As of Sunday afternoon, the fire exploded to 12,265 acres with 2% containment.

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Australia: Mass Stranding Of Pilot Whales At Toby’s Inlet Near Dunsborough 10

More than a hundred pilot whales were stranded at Toby's Inlet near Dunsborough, Western Australia on Thursday, April 25. Beachgoers helped pour water on the whales on shore as they were being directed back to the sea. Among the 4 pods of about 160 whales that were stranded, 28 died.

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Australia: Mass Stranding Of Pilot Whales At Toby’s Inlet Near Dunsborough 9

More than a hundred pilot whales were stranded at Toby's Inlet near Dunsborough, Western Australia, on Thursday, April 25. Beachgoers helped pour water on the whales on shore as they were being directed back to the sea. Among the 4 pods of about 160 whales that were stranded, 28 died.

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Beyond Our Bodies

Monica, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2017 Actually I don’t identify so much with a group of people or with a gender. I can be very masculine sometimes. It’s really about what the system tells you what you should be or not, it’s also about how hormones work for you at that time of your life, it’s really chemical and we have a lot of this going on. To be free is not easy sometimes, the system tells you that a woman has to be this way, a man that way, now it’s a little bit more mixed up and open minded that it used to be. But there is still jugement and the way people look at stereotypes is still strong. Beauty types for example… A lot of artists are trying to push on the other way but it's hard to break the structure." Photo by Su Cassiano/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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China doing great in advancing and safeguarding human rights in Xinjiang: Tanzanian woman recalls life in Kashgar

STORY: China doing great in advancing and safeguarding human rights in Xinjiang: Tanzanian woman recalls life in Kashgar SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 25, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 28, 2024 LENGTH: 00:03:53 LOCATION: ZANZIBAR, Tanzania CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Hadiya Msham Abdulla and Dilshat Tursun in Zanzibar 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): HADIYA MSHAM, Resident in Zanzibar, Tanzania 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): DILSHAT TURSUN, Resident from Kashgar, Xinjiang 4. various of Kashgar and Urumqi 5. various of Hadiya Msham Abdulla and Dilshat Tursun in Kashgar 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): HADIYA MSHAM, Resident in Zanzibar, Tanzania STORYLINE: A Tanzanian woman who married a man from China's Xinjiang recalled her time in the northwestern Chinese region, saying Xinjiang is a beautiful region, and she enjoys living there. Hadiya Msham Abdulla from Zanzibar, Tanzania, tied the knot with Dilshat Tursun in Kashgar in Xinjiang three years ago. Interviewed when spending a holiday at their father-in-law’s house in Chuini vill

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Marriage ceremony at Pyrohiv Museum

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 10, 2023 - A senior man and woman put a korovai into an oven as they perform a ritual during the re-enactment of a folk marriage ceremony as part of the Wedding Autumn event at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Pyrohiv, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Wrongly imprisoned Nepali

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali (L) holds his newly published autobiography in Kathmandu on May 22, 2013. The Nepali man was wrongly detained and imprisoned in Japan for 15 years. He was arrested on a charge of murdering a Japanese woman in 1997 and had his life imprisonment sentence finalized in 2003 before being cleared of the murder charge in a retrial in November 2012.

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Nepalese acquitted over 1997 murder

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Kamiyama (C), who heads the defense counsel for Govinda Prasad Mainali, and other members of the counsel smile during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2012, after the Tokyo High Court exonerated the Nepalese man of a 1997 murder. The court acquitted Mainali, who had been sentenced to life in prison for the killing of a Japanese woman.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - (From L) Radha Mainali and her second daughter Alisha and eldest daughter Mithila are interviewed in Yokohama on June 8, 2012, after meeting Radha's husband, and Alisha and Mithila's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali, at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R, front row) and her daughters Mithila (L, front row) and Alisha (C, front row) leave the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, after meeting Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - (From L) Radha Mainali and her daughters Mithila and Alisha visit the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, to meet Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R, front row) and her daughters Mithila (L, front row) and Alisha (C, front row) visit the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, to meet Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Tokyo High Court grants retrial to Nepalese man

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters surround the wife and two daughters of Govinda Prasad Mainali in front of the Tokyo High Court on June 7, 2012, after the court decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo.

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Inmate's kin

NARITA, Japan - (from L) Radha, wife of murder case inmate Govinda Prasad Mainali, and her daughters Mithila and Alisha arrive at Narita airport near Tokyo on June 6, 2012. They visited Japan as the Tokyo High Court plans to issue a decision on June 7 on whether to open a retrial for the Nepalese man serving a life sentence for killing a Japanese woman in Tokyo in 1997. The man denies the killing in a high-profile case in which the victim was working as a prostitute as well as at the then blue-chip Tokyo Electric Power Co.

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Suspect in Briton's murder to release book

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a book penned by Tatsuya Ichihashi, the man indicted in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan. The book, to be released Jan. 26, 2011, in Japan, is about how he spent his two-year-and-seven-month life as a fugitive up until his arrest in November 2009.

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Man, in retrial, given death for murders committed at age 18

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Crowds line up outside the Hiroshima High Court on April 22 for admission tickets to attend the retrial of a 27-year-old man who was convicted of killing, when he was 18, a 23-year-old woman and her 11-month-old daughter in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1999 and raping the woman afterward. In a retrial ordered by the Supreme Court, the high court sentenced the defendant to death, reversing an earlier ruling giving him life imprisonment.

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Man serving life in prison seeks retrial over 2002 murder in Tokyo

Lawyers brief reporters on June 24, 2015, in Tokyo about an appeal for retrial filed by a 35-year-old man serving life in prison for the robbery and murder of a woman in Tokyo in 2002. The convict, Kosuke Ihara, argues new scientific analysis has shown that traces of DNA found at the scene of the crime do not match his. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man, in retrial, given death for murders committed at age 18

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Crowds line up outside the Hiroshima High Court on April 22 for admission tickets to attend the retrial of a 27-year-old man who was convicted of killing, when he was 18, a 23-year-old woman and her 11-month-old daughter in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1999 and raping the woman afterward. In a retrial ordered by the Supreme Court, the high court sentenced the defendant to death, reversing an earlier ruling giving him life imprisonment. (Kyodo)

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Rokumichijizo Statues,Hakone

This is 3.2m magaibotoke (the largest in Kanto region during the Kamakura Period) carved into over seven meter high pyrozene andesite rock for jizo worship during Middle Ages. Although there is only one jizo here, this is called Rokudo (Six Way) Jizo because this is one of the group of stone buddhas around Shojingaike Pond which was regarded as the crossroad of Rokudo (lit. Six Road: Buddhist terminology meaning transmigration in the six paths of life). As there is no shack-like cover over the jizo, this photo was taken after 1878.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number98‐27‐0]

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A mosquito net and a couple

A kaya (mosquito net) is attached to the four corners of a room to form a tent over the sleeping area. The word kaya is used as a haiku seasonal term and a poetic symbol of summer, but the mosquito net fell out of use in the 1960's. The trick is to lift the lower end slightly and enter quickly as demonstrated by the man in the photograph.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐110‐0]

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A picnic

One of the photographs in a Yokohama album, this entitled, A Great Entertainment in the Field. A woman is dancing, a man is served sake, and the woman on the left is pretending to play the shamisen on a broom. The scene looks staged.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number86‐26‐0]