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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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China: Playful Tiger Cub Sneaks Up on Caretaker in Harbin Zoo

This video was filmed at a zoo in Harbin, Heilongjiang, on August 26, 2025. It captured the cute moment when a tiger cub tried to catch his caretaker off guard, but was quickly noticed, scooped into his arms, and turned into a cuddly kitten.

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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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Paris Fashion Week - Elie Saab Front Row

Alain Delon and former wife Rosalie van Breemen front row for the Elie Saab Spring-Summer 2013 Ready-to-Wear collection show held at Espace Ephemere Tuileries as part of the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France on October 3, 2012. Photo by Frederic Nebinger/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris Fashion Week - Elie Saab Front Row

Alain Delon and former wife Rosalie van Breemen front row for the Elie Saab Spring-Summer 2013 Ready-to-Wear collection show held at Espace Ephemere Tuileries as part of the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France on October 3, 2012. Photo by Frederic Nebinger/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris Fashion Week - Elie Saab Front Row

Alain Delon and former wife Rosalie van Breemen front row for the Elie Saab Spring-Summer 2013 Ready-to-Wear collection show held at Espace Ephemere Tuileries as part of the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France on October 3, 2012. Photo by Frederic Nebinger/ABACAPRESS.COM

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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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Tea industry drives rural revitalization in Metok in China's Xizang

STORY: Tea industry drives rural revitalization in Metok in China's Xizang SHOOTING TIME: May 3, 2024 DATELINE: May 4, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:10 LOCATION: LHASA, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of tea plantations 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YUAN CHUNHUA, Owner of a local store 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YU JIACHUN, Local official STORYLINE: Tea cultivation has helped boost rural revitalization in Geling Village in China's Xizang in recent years. Since the beginning of spring, villagers have been busy picking tea leaves in the plantations. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YUAN CHUNHUA, Owner of a local store "Tea is hailed as the 'golden leaf' of Metok. Today it's raining. Actually, it rains regularly here. They all go to pick tea leaves and they're not afraid of hard work. They go early in the morning, and some even wear headlamps to go tea picking." Geling was once inaccessible due to its rugged terrain and dense forests. However, the opening of the Metok Highway in 2013 significantly improved con

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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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CHINA-GUANGXI-TEENAGERS-HOMETOWN-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230122) -- DAHUA, Jan. 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2013 shows a view of Nongding Village of Bansheng Town, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Meng Xuanren and his younger brother Meng Xuantai were nicknamed "ladder teenagers" because they had to climb mountains and hanging ladders to get to school as children. They've all grown up and achieved their goals now. Meng Xuanren, 22, is a sophomore at the Liaoning Provincial College of Communications, and Xuantai, 19, works at an auto repair factory in south China's Guangdong Province after graduating from a vocational school. The brothers returned to Nongding Village in Bansheng Town for a family reunion during the Spring Festival. They have seen the transformation of transportation infrastructure, school facilities, and village housing in their hometown over the last decade. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-TEENAGERS-HOMETOWN-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230122) -- DAHUA, Jan. 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo shows Nongyong primary school under construction in Bansheng Town of Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Dec. 19, 2013. Meng Xuanren and his younger brother Meng Xuantai were nicknamed "ladder teenagers" because they had to climb mountains and hanging ladders to get to school as children. They've all grown up and achieved their goals now. Meng Xuanren, 22, is a sophomore at the Liaoning Provincial College of Communications, and Xuantai, 19, works at an auto repair factory in south China's Guangdong Province after graduating from a vocational school. The brothers returned to Nongding Village in Bansheng Town for a family reunion during the Spring Festival. They have seen the transformation of transportation infrastructure, school facilities, and village housing in their hometown over the last decade. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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Unseen parts of Imperial Palace to open to public

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2010 shows the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The Imperial Household Agency said Dec. 16, 2013, that it will open parts of the palace previously inaccessible to the public in the spring and fall of 2014 to commemorate Emperor Akihito's 80th birthday, which falls on Dec. 23, 2013.

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Mt. Everest

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 2 Kyodo - File photo taken in May 2013 shows Mt. Everest. The Nepalese government has decided to ban solo and blind climbers as well as double amputees from the world's highest mountain from the spring of 2018 in a bid to reduce accidents.

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Street at Imperial Palace opened to public

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2014, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows crowds of people walking along a street at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo under colorful autumn leaves, as it was opened for five days to the public to commemorate Emperor Akihito's 80th birthday in December 2013. Around 6,000 people made a line before the opening, the second since the spring, the season of cherry blossoms.

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Street at Imperial Palace opened to public

TOKYO, Japan - A crowd observes colorful autumn leaves along a street at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 3, 2014, as it was opened for five days to the public to commemorate Emperor Akihito's 80th birthday in December 2013. Around 6,000 people made a line before the opening, the second since the spring, the season of cherry blossoms.

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Non-Ainu high school girl becomes Ainu dancer

KUSHIORO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 6, 2014 shows Ayaka Ono, an Ainu dance performer, holding the stringed Tonkori, one of the indigenous ethnic group's traditional musical instruments. Despite not being an Ainu, Ono decided to become a performer of the traditional Ainu dance in the spring of 2013.

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Hot spring project in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - A March 11, 2013, photo shows JR Sannomiya Station and Sannomiya Terminal Building in Kobe, western Japan. West Japan Railway Co. reportedly plans to dig a hot spring to build a spa facility as part of the redevelopment plan for the building.

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Ishimoto designs guest room in hot spa hotel

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Japanese textile designer Fujio Ishimoto speaks in a guestroom of his design at Takaraso Hotel in the Dogo Onsen hot spring resort in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on Dec. 20, 2013. The room was designed in the image of a grass field.

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New E7 shinkansen bullet train

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 28, 2013, shows a restroom on the new E7 Series shinkansen bullet train, due to debut on the Tokyo-Nagano route in the spring of 2014, when it was unveiled to the press by East Japan Railway Co. at the company's development base in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture.

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New E7 shinkansen bullet train

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 28, 2013, shows the inside of the new E7 Series shinkansen bullet train, due to debut on the Tokyo-Nagano route in the spring of 2014, when it was unveiled to the press by East Japan Railway Co. at the company's development base in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture.

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New E7 shinkansen bullet train

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 28, 2013, shows the inside of the new E7 Series shinkansen bullet train, due to debut on the Tokyo-Nagano route in the spring of 2014, when it was unveiled to the press by East Japan Railway Co. at the company's development base in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture.

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New E7 shinkansen bullet train

RIFU, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. unveils to the press its new E7 Series shinkansen bullet train, due to debut on the Tokyo-Nagano route in the spring of 2014, at the company's development base in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2013.

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New E7 shinkansen bullet train

RIFU, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. unveils to the press its new E7 Series shinkansen bullet train, due to debut on the Tokyo-Nagano route in the spring of 2014, at the company's development base in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2013.

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New E7 shinkansen bullet train

RIFU, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. unveils to the press its new E7 Series shinkansen bullet train, due to debut on the Tokyo-Nagano route in the spring of 2014, at the company's development base in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2013.

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New E7 shinkansen bullet train

RIFU, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. unveils to the press its new E7 Series shinkansen bullet train, due to debut on the Tokyo-Nagano route in the spring of 2014, at the company's development base in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2013.

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'Floor Chandelier' eyed at new bullet train gate

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 16, 2013 shows a trial piece of a "Floor Chandelier" in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture. With the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line in the spring of 2015, Toyama City plans to build the floor chandelier -- 800 glass blocks embedded in the floor that will reflect red and blue lights on the ceiling -- in front of the bullet train ticket gate of JR Toyama Station.

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Ex-Japan envoy to China

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa speaks during a symposium in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2013. Niwa said the two countries and South Korea should try to hold a trilateral summit by the spring of 2014 to mend ties strained by territorial disputes.

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Online sales of over-the-counter drugs

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Mikitani, president of online shopping mall Rakuten Inc., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2013, following the government's announcement that online sales of drugs moving from prescription to over-the-counter status will be banned for three years from the point of such movement in principle under new rules that could take effect next spring. Mikitani slammed the government-planned restrictions on online sales of over-the-counter drugs as "unconstitutional" and suggested he will take the case to court.

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Online sales of over-the-counter drugs

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Norihisa Tamura holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2013. The government said the same day that online sales of drugs moving from prescription to over-the-counter status will be banned for three years from the point of such movement in principle under new rules that could take effect next spring.

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Hokuriku Shinkansen

TOKYO, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. President Tetsuro Tomita (R) and West Japan Railway Co. executive Makoto Shibata hold a signboard showing the four names for the bullet trains that will run on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2013. The Hokuriku Shinkansen Line is scheduled to start service between Tokyo and Kanazawa via Nagano in the spring of 2015.

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Abolished schools find new role as renovated residences

NAGANO, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 25, 2013, shows a residential complex that was formerly a three-story elementary school building in Sakae, Nagano Prefecture. The structure was renovated after closure and turned into an apartment facility in the spring of 2013.

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Spring Airlines

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Ugai (C), president of Spring Airlines Japan Co., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2013. The Japanese unit of the Chinese discount carrier Spring Airlines Co. plans to start scheduled passenger flights in late May 2014 linking Tokyo and three other cities in Japan.

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Obama may visit Japan in spring 2014

TOKYO, Japan - Japan and the United States are arranging for President Barack Obama (shown in photo) to make an official visit to Japan, possibly in the spring of 2014, for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss strengthening the bilateral alliance, Japanese government sources said July 31, 2013.

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Ex-Antarctic team member becomes farmer in Hokkaido

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Yoshinori Yamakawa, a former member of Japan's Antarctic expedition team, takes care of melons on May 8, 2013 in Furano, Hokkaido. Yamakawa became a farmer in the spring of 2013 after moving to the city three years ago and learning about agriculture from scratch.

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Ex-Antarctic team member becomes farmer in Hokkaido

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Yoshinori Yamakawa, a former member of Japan's Antarctic expedition team, plows a field on May 8, 2013 in Furano, Hokkaido. Yamakawa became a farmer in the spring of 2013 after moving to the city three years ago and learning about agriculture from scratch.

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Hokkaido aims to lure tourists from Thailand in spring

KUSHIRO, Japan - Newspaper journalists and others from Thailand enjoy canoeing around Kushiro Marsh in eastern Hokkaido on April 23, 2013, as part of an experimental tour to attract Thai tourists to Japan's northernmost prefecture in spring.

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2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Children gather around a spring at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand, in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

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Imperial garden party

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (2nd from R), Empress Michiko (R) and other members of the imperial family attend a spring garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on April 18, 2013.

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Grandma who knows history of Kompira Kabuki

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Takuko Yamamoto shows confetti she made for parades ahead of spring Kabuki performances in Kotohira, Kagawa Prefecture, at her home in the town on April 3, 2013. She has helped liven up performances known as "Shikoku Kompira Kabuki Oshibai" at Kanamaruza, or Kyu Kompira Oshibai (Old Kompira Grand Theater), for nearly 30 years by making boxes of confetti to be thrown over the heads of performers during pre-opening parades every year.

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Typhoon-like storm in Japan

KOCHI, Japan - Photo shows pedestrians with umbrellas as heavy rain fell on the city of Kochi on April 6, 2013. A typhoon-like powerful spring storm hit a wide area of western Japan.

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Typhoon-like storm in Japan

SHIRAHAMA, Japan - Photo shows people near a shore being pounded by high waves in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, on April 6, 2013, as a typhoon-like powerful spring storm hit a wide area of western Japan.