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Passengers who flew from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a pneumonia-causing new coronavirus, go through quarantine at Narita airport near Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2020. Seen in the foreground is a thermographic monitor set up to check their body temperatures.

Reporters visit the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on April 14, 2017, in northeastern Japan. The disaster there has increased anxiety about such large projects among investors and the public.

The Temple of Baal Shamin at Palmyra was attacked by ISIS fighters using improvised explosives. The group released photos of the destruction, and satellite images have since confirmed the Roman-era building was wiped out.

A Shinto ritual is held near a ridge on the frozen surface of Lake Suwa in 2012, one of the only recent years in which the lake froze.