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US: Bright Streak Observed Over California as SpaceX Crew-11 Re-enters

A bright streak was observed across the night sky over Southern California early Thursday, January 15 as the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts made its fiery re-entry before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego. The capsule returned NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, ending the Crew-11 mission about a month early due to a non-emergency medical condition affecting one crew member. NASA said the astronaut was stable and brought back to Earth for further evaluation.

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2 Dead And 1 Missing After Fast Boat Sinks Off Bali - Indonesia

This photo provided by Indonesia's National Search And Rescue (BASARNAS) shows rescuers attempt to recover a fast boat after it capsized in Bali, Indonesia, on Aug. 6, 2025. Indonesian Minister of Transportation Dudy Purwagandhi on Wednesday apologized on behalf of the government over the capsizing of a boat near the entrance of Sanur Harbor, Bali, and called for prompt measures to address the accident. Two passengers, who were Chinese nationals, were confirmed dead, and one crew member was missing as a result of the accident. A total of 73 passengers and four crew members were rescued and taken for treatment. As of Wednesday, the body of the missing crew has been found, bringing the death toll to three. Photo by BASARNAS/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2 Dead And 1 Missing After Fast Boat Sinks Off Bali - Indonesia

This photo provided by Indonesia's National Search And Rescue (BASARNAS) shows rescuers attempt to recover a fast boat after it capsized in Bali, Indonesia, on Aug. 6, 2025. Indonesian Minister of Transportation Dudy Purwagandhi on Wednesday apologized on behalf of the government over the capsizing of a boat near the entrance of Sanur Harbor, Bali, and called for prompt measures to address the accident. Two passengers, who were Chinese nationals, were confirmed dead, and one crew member was missing as a result of the accident. A total of 73 passengers and four crew members were rescued and taken for treatment. As of Wednesday, the body of the missing crew has been found, bringing the death toll to three. Photo by BASARNAS/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L CRUISE HOME PORT-FOREIGN TOURISTS (CN)

(240407) -- TIANJIN, April 7, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A staff member provides foreign tourists with guide materials about payment methods in north China's Tianjin Municipality on April 7, 2024. Cruise ship Serenade of the Seas docked at Tianjin International Cruise Home Port in north China's port city of Tianjin on Sunday morning, with over 1,800 tourists from 50 countries and regions aboard. The ship will dock at Tianjin for two days and one night, carrying over 800 crew members and over 1,800 tourists. Most of the tourists will go sightseeing in the cities of Beijing and Tianjin. Tianjin International Cruise Home Port has welcomed 22 cruise ships and seen 68,000 tourist visits so far this year, according to Dong Zichen, deputy general manager of Tianjin International Cruise Home Port Co., Ltd. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)

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(SP)JAPAN-SUZUKA-F1-GRAND PRIX 2024

(240404) -- SUZUKA, April 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A crew member of Ferrari prepares rain tires before the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix at Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, Japan, April 4, 2024. (Photo by Qian Jun/Xinhua)

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-BANDUNG HSR-PASSENGER FLOW-ONE MILLION

(231226) -- JAKARTA, Dec. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A crew member welcomes passengers on the platform of Halim Station in Jakarta, Indonesia, Dec. 12, 2023. The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR), the first HSR in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, has handled over 1 million passenger trips since its official operation on Oct. 17, China State Railway Group Co. said on Monday. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)

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Chinese rescue team continues search for survivors in Hatay, Türkiye

STORY: Chinese rescue team continues search for survivors in Hatay, Türkiye DATELINE: Feb. 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:47 LOCATION: HATAY, Türkiye CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): WANG FENG, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of the Chinese rescue team 3. aerials of the collapsed buildings STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): WANG FENG, Xinhua correspondent "The team of 82 member gathered around the Chinese flag in the tent camp they set up in the southern province of Hatay and sang the national anthem on Friday morning. The crew was ready to perform with all their might to get people alive under the rubble on the third day of their mission." The Chinese rescue team together with Turkish rescuers saved three women from the ruins of collapsed buildings on Thursday in Hatay, Türkiye. Hatay was one of the hardest-hit areas by the massive earthquakes that jolted Türkiye and neighboring Syria on Monday. The 82-member Chinese rescue team that arrived in Türkiye on Wednesday is racing against time to search

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Japan Coast Guard helicopter crash off Kagawa

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Japan Coast Guard personnel on a boat transfer to a vessel the retrieved body of a crew member aboard a helicopter which crashed in waters off the town of Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture, after hitting power lines, on Aug. 18, 2010. Four of the five whose bodies were found were confirmed dead, while one remains missing.

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Japan Coast Guard helicopter crash off Kagawa

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Japan Coast Guard personnel recover the body of a crew member aboard a helicopter which crashed in waters off the town of Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture, after hitting power lines, on Aug. 18, 2010. Four of the five on board whose bodies were found were confirmed dead, while one remains missing.

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Coast guard member confesses to collision video leak

KOBE, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 10, 2010 shows the building housing the 5th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters and its patrol vessel Uranami (L front) in Kobe. One of the crew members of the boat has confessed to leaking on YouTube high-profile footage of the collisions between Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler.

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Coast guard member confesses to collision video leak

KOBE, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard's patrol vessel Uranami is docked at a pier in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The patrol boat was in the spotlight as one of its crew members has confessed to leaking on YouTube high-profile footage of the collisions between Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler.

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Coast guard member confesses to collision video leak

KOBE, Japan - Members of the media gather near the Japan Coast Guard's patrol boat Uranami (R) in Kobe on Nov. 10, 2010. The patrol boat was in the spotlight as one of its crew members has confessed to leaking on YouTube high-profile footage of the collisions between Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler.

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Coast guard member confesses to collision video leak

KOBE, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard's patrol vessel Uranami is docked at a pier in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The patrol boat was in the spotlight as one of its crew members has confessed to leaking on YouTube high-profile footage of the collisions between Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler.

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Coast guard member confesses to collision video leak

KOBE, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 10, 2010 shows the building in Kobe housing the 5th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters. One of the crew members of its patrol boat has confessed to leaking on YouTube high-profile footage of the collisions between Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler.

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F-1 Japanese Grand Prix starts

SUZUKA, Japan - Sauber driver Kamui Kobayashi (L) speaks with a member of his pit crew at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture on Oct. 8, 2010, the first day of Formula One Japanese Grand Prix.

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1 dead, 3 missing after cargo ship sinks in collision

KOBE, Japan - Two crew members among nine of those aboard the Belize-registered 1,466-ton cargo ship Gold Leader arrive in Kobe on March 5 after being rescued following their ship's sinking off Hyogo Prefecture. One crew member died and three others are missing after the ship sank following a collision with another vessel and a tanker.

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Freighter sinks off Wakayama after collision, 1 crew member missing

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A Japan Coast Guard vessel is in rescue operation off Wakayama Prefecture in the Pacific following collision between in search of the Cambodian-registered 1,208-ton Yin He No. 1 and the 313-ton Japanese freighter Eifuku Maru No. 7 on April 7. The Japanese ship sank after the collision, leaving one of its four crew members missing.

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Freighter sinks off Wakayama after collision, 1 crew member missing

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Damage is seen on the port side of the Cambodian-registered 1,208-ton Yin He No. 1 after its collision with a Japanese freighter off Wakayama Prefecture in the Pacific on April 7. The Japanese ship, the 313-ton Eifuku Maru No. 7, sank after the collision, leaving one of its four crew members missing.

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1 dead, 5 missing as tankers collide off Mie in dense fog

NAGOYA, Japan - The 697-ton fuel tanker Kyokuyo Maru burst into flames off Owase, Mie Prefecture, July 15 after it was rammed by the 499-ton coastal bulk carrier Nikko Maru. One Kykuyo Maru crew member was killed and five others went missing in the collision. All five Nikko Maru crew members were rescued.

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(1)Passengers arrive in Japan after ship accident in S. Korea

FUKUOKA, Japan - One of Japanese passengers tells of the accident involving a South Korean ferry that became waterlogged after hitting an unidentified object on returning to Fukuoka on April 30. Eighteen passengers and a crew member were injured in the April 29 incident.

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Wind knocks over helicopter, 1 dead, 2 injured

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Side winds are believed to have caused a helicopter chartered by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to flip over on landing in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, on April 19, killing one crew member and injuring two others.

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Ehime Maru captain says not one rescued by sub crew

HONOLULU, United States - The rescued captain of a Japanese ship sunk Feb. 9 by a 6,080-ton U.S. Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine in a collision off Hawaii accuses the sub crew Feb. 10 of doing little to help people from his ship. ''Not one (member of my ship) was rescued by the submarine crew,'' Hisao Onishi, captain of the 499-ton Ehime Maru, a fisheries training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, tearfully told a press conference in Honolulu.

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8 bodies recovered after cargo ship founders in Pacific

KOCHI, Japan - The photo, taken from a Kyodo News helicopter, shows a Japan Coast Guard ship on Jan. 8 rescuing a crew member of a cargo ship that sank the previous day in the Pacific Ocean off Kochi Prefecture. Five crew members of the Panamanian-registered 3,561-ton White Koowa, all Filipinos, have been rescued by coast guard patrol boats and another cargo ship. The bodies of eight crew members were found Jan. 8 and one remains missing. The surviving crew members said the ship, owned by a company in Ehime Prefecture, sank at around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 7. The vessel was transporting ore from Indonesia to Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.

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ASDF begins work to salvage C-1 transport plane

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The 499-ton salvage ship Shinyo Maru (foreground) begins work July 8 to recover an Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) transport plane that crashed in the Sea of Japan off Okinoshima Island, Shimane Prefecture, on June 28. In the background is a destroyer. The C-1 transport plane with a crew of five disappeared from radar after taking off from the ASDF Miho base in Tottori Prefecture for a 90-minute test flight. The body of one crew member was found July 4.

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After 24 years of wait, taikonaut Deng Qingming ready to fly

STORY: After 24 years of wait, taikonaut Deng Qingming ready to fly DATELINE: Nov. 28, 2022 LENGTH: 0:00:31 LOCATION: JIUQUAN, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): DENG QINGMING, Chinese astronaut STORYLINE: The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced at a press conference on Monday that Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu will carry out the Shenzhou-15 spaceflight mission, and Fei will be the commander. It is the sixth flight mission of China's manned spaceflight program this year and the last one in the construction phase of China's space station. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): DENG QINGMING, Chinese astronaut "As a taikonaut, I'll always stay true to my original aspiration, and never stop pursuing my dream of going to space. When I learned I was chosen as a crew member of the Shenzhou-15 mission, I felt quite assured. I'll cherish this opportunity, keep practicing, and live up to the mission. I'm especially grateful for the new era, for giving us the platform to

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100-member robot crew at Shanghai's makeshift hospital

STORY: 100-member robot crew at Shanghai's makeshift hospital DATELINE: April 14, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:55 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of robots delivering food 2. various of robots being installed 3. SOUNDBITE (English): HUANG JUESHENG, CTO of SLAMTECH Robotics Company STORYLINE: A total of 100 robots have started their "new jobs" as delivery men and garbage collectors at the Lingang makeshift hospital for COVID-19 patients in Shanghai. They help doctors and nurses deliver meals and medicines to about 4,000 beds and collect garbage throughout the hospital. The deployment of robots can avoid close contact between the medical workers and the patients, and reduce the workload of medical workers. The delivery robot has multiple cabinets and can hold up to 20 boxes of meals at once. One robot can deliver as many as 120 boxes of meals per hour. SOUNDBITE (English): HUANG JUESHENG, CTO of SLAMTEC Robotics Company "There are 3 types of robots deployed. Some of them deliver food t

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Wind knocks over helicopter, 1 dead, 2 injured

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Side winds are believed to have caused a helicopter chartered by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to flip over on landing in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, on April 19, killing one crew member and injuring two others. (Kyodo)

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U.S. F-16 crashes into Sea of Japan, pilot safe

TOKYO, Japan - One crew member of a U.S. F-16 fighter plane was picked up by a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) helicopter April 15 after the plane crashed into the Sea of Japan off Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, earlier in the day. He was initially rescued by a local fishing ship. Photo was provided by the MSDF.

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(1)Passengers arrive in Japan after ship accident in S. Korea

FUKUOKA, Japan - One of Japanese passengers tells of the accident involving a South Korean ferry that became waterlogged after hitting an unidentified object on returning to Fukuoka on April 30. Eighteen passengers and a crew member were injured in the April 29 incident. (Kyodo)

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(2)Photos of sunken N. Korean ship unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - A crew member (L) of a North Korean ship shouts to Japanese patrol boats to go away during a shoot-out with Japanese boats in the East China Sea in December 2001. The photo was one of the pictures the Japan Coast Guard unveiled May 27. (Kyodo)

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Wreckage of crashed SDF jet found on Kagoshima mountain

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 8, 2016, shows an Air Self-Defense Force helicopter recovering an ASDF member, presumed dead, who was one of six crew of an ASDF jet that crashed on a mountain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire fighting on ferry continues

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 1, 2015, shows Japan Coast Guard patrol vessels spraying water on the 11,401-ton Sunflower Daisetsu, a car ferry that caught fire off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on July 31. One crew member is missing, while everyone else evacuated in lifeboats. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire fighting on ferry continues

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 1, 2015, shows Japan Coast Guard patrol vessels spraying water on the 11,401-ton Sunflower Daisetsu, a car ferry that caught fire off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on July 31. One crew member is missing, while everyone else evacuated in lifeboats. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire fighting on ferry continues

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 1, 2015, shows Japan Coast Guard patrol vessels spraying water on the 11,401-ton Sunflower Daisetsu, a car ferry that caught fire off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on July 31. One crew member is missing, while everyone else evacuated in lifeboats. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire fighting on ferry continues

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 1, 2015, shows Japan Coast Guard patrol vessels spraying water on the 11,401-ton Sunflower Daisetsu, a car ferry that caught fire off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on July 31. One crew member is missing, while everyone else evacuated in lifeboats. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Survivor recalls 1945 U.S. air raid on cross-strait ferries

Mikio Miura recounts in an interview on July 14, 2015, in Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, his terrifying experience as a crew member aboard the No. 6 Seikan Maru, one of 12 ferries linking Aomori and Hakodate across the Tsugaru Strait that were attacked by U.S. planes in July 1945 toward the end of World War II. The attack killed about 400 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1 dead, 5 missing as tankers collide off Mie in dense fog

NAGOYA, Japan - The 697-ton fuel tanker Kyokuyo Maru burst into flames off Owase, Mie Prefecture, July 15 after it was rammed by the 499-ton coastal bulk carrier Nikko Maru. One Kykuyo Maru crew member was killed and five others went missing in the collision. All five Nikko Maru crew members were rescued. (Kyodo)

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1 dead, 3 missing after cargo ship sinks in collision

KOBE, Japan - Two crew members among nine of those aboard the Belize-registered 1,466-ton cargo ship Gold Leader arrive in Kobe on March 5 after being rescued following their ship's sinking off Hyogo Prefecture. One crew member died and three others are missing after the ship sank following a collision with another vessel and a tanker. (Kyodo)

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(2) S. Korean ship crashes into breakwater, 6 dead

ISHIKARI BAY, Japan - A crew member of the South Korean cargo ship Marine Osaka holds fast to the mast waiting for rescue at Ishikari Bay New Port on Nov. 13. Six crew members died after strong winds and high waves sent the 5,500-ton vessel at anchor into a breakwater. There were eight South Korean and eight Myanmar crew members on board the ship. Fifteen of them have been rescued, with one still missing, Japan Coast Guard officials said. (Kyodo)

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Japan Coast Guard helicopter crash off Kagawa

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Japan Coast Guard personnel on a boat transfer to a vessel the retrieved body of a crew member aboard a helicopter which crashed in waters off the town of Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture, after hitting power lines, on Aug. 18, 2010. Four of the five whose bodies were found were confirmed dead, while one remains missing. (Kyodo)

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Japan Coast Guard helicopter crash off Kagawa

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Japan Coast Guard personnel recover the body of a crew member aboard a helicopter which crashed in waters off the town of Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture, after hitting power lines, on Aug. 18, 2010. Four of the five on board whose bodies were found were confirmed dead, while one remains missing. (Kyodo)

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F-1 Japanese Grand Prix starts

SUZUKA, Japan - Sauber driver Kamui Kobayashi (L) speaks with a member of his pit crew at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture on Oct. 8, 2010, the first day of Formula One Japanese Grand Prix. (Kyodo)

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(1)Photos of sunken N. Korean ship unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - A crew member of a North Korean ship tries to put out a fire with a blanket. The ship was gutted during a shoot-out with Japanese patrol boats in the East China Sea in December 2001. The photo was one of the pictures the Japan Coast Guard unveiled May 27. (Kyodo)

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8 bodies recovered after cargo ship founders in Pacific

KOCHI, Japan - The photo, taken from a Kyodo News helicopter, shows a Japan Coast Guard ship on Jan. 8 rescuing a crew member of a cargo ship that sank the previous day in the Pacific Ocean off Kochi Prefecture. Five crew members of the Panamanian-registered 3,561-ton White Koowa, all Filipinos, have been rescued by coast guard patrol boats and another cargo ship. The bodies of eight crew members were found Jan. 8 and one remains missing. The surviving crew members said the ship, owned by a company in Ehime Prefecture, sank at around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 7. The vessel was transporting ore from Indonesia to Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.

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ASDF begins work to salvage C-1 transport plane

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The 499-ton salvage ship Shinyo Maru (foreground) begins work July 8 to recover an Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) transport plane that crashed in the Sea of Japan off Okinoshima Island, Shimane Prefecture, on June 28. In the background is a destroyer. The C-1 transport plane with a crew of five disappeared from radar after taking off from the ASDF Miho base in Tottori Prefecture for a 90-minute test flight. The body of one crew member was found July 4.

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Japan-Russia joint rescue dril

A helicopter tries to lift a wounded crew member from Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) supply vessel Hamana in the first Japan-Russia joint mock search and rescue drills off the Russian Far East port of Vladivostok on Wednesday July 29. Sailing in the background is the Russian destroyer Admiral Vinogradov which is also taking part in the one-day drills. ==Kyodo