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Rescuers and residents walk on a road covered by rocks and m&d near a collapsed building after a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Zhouqu county, in northwest China's Gansu province. Rescuers searched on Monday for an estimated 1,300 people left missing after rubble-strewn floodwaters...

Flood victims evacuate their villages in Sukkur, located in Pakistan's Sindh province. Pakistani navy boats sped across miles of flood waters as the military took a lead role in rescuing survivors from a devastating disaster that has killed 1,600 people and left two million homeless. --...

Doves fly near the Peace Statue in Nagasaki's Peace Park in Nagasaki, western Japan, during a ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. Japan marked the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki with a solemn ceremony on Monday and a call for...

A farmer stands next to 'silletas' flower arrangements during the traditional 'Silleteros' Parade of the Flower Fair in Medellin, Antioquia deparment, Colombia. Colombia is one of the major flower exporters in the world. -- PHOTO: AFP Firemen try to approach a naked woman sitting on a...

A Palestinian man arranges neon lights and other decorations for the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan at his store in Jerusalem. The start of Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month in the Muslim calendar, is traditionally determined by the sighting of a new moon. -- PHOTO: AFP Toronto...

Pakistani city Mehmud Kot is submerged in floodwater near Multan, Pakistan. Pakistan will need billions of dollars to recover from its worst floods in history, further straining a country already dependent on foreign aid to prop up its economy and back its war against Islamist militants, the...

Flood-affected people jostle for food relief in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan. Stormy weather grounded helicopters carrying emergency supplies to Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest as the worst monsoon rains in decades brought more destruction to a nation already reeling from Islamist...

Workers clean up the green algae floating in the Caohu lake in Hefei, east China's Hefei province. -- PHOTO: AFP Five year-old Findlay Gledhill holds a banner as a group of redheads hits the streets of Melbourne protesting that there has been a lack of strong policies to reduce...

Children look for salvageable materials while submerged in water filled with charred items and ash after a fire gutted a sprawling shanty town in Malabon, part of Metro Manila. Firemen failed to save the more than 300 homes which went up in flames, as officials investigate the blaze in which...

Ryan Lochte swims on the way to winning men's 200m backstroke final at the U.S. National Swimming Championships in Irvine, California. -- PHOTO: REUTERS A recent undated image of flooding in northwest Pakistan released by Merlin NGO. Heavy rains are expected to lash areas of Pakistan...

People in costumes participate in 'Conquest 2010 LARP' (Live Action Role Play) in the northern German village of Brokeloh near Hanover. About 7000 participants from Europe, the United States and Japan dressed up as fantasy characters such as knights and trolls to take part in the three-day...

Italy's Frecce Tricolori aerobatic demonstration team perform during an international air show in Kecskemet, 90km south of Budapest. -- PHOTO: REUTERS A worker rakes the sand near a statue of Marilyn Monroe at a sand sculpture festival in St Petersburg, Russia. -- PHOTO: AP Sailing...

A Pakistani boy shelters from heavy rain inside a tent erected beside a motorway in the outskirts of Peshawar. Pakistan was on red alert as fresh floods threatened hundreds of communities in its farming heartland, with 12 million people already affected by the catastrophe. -- PHOTO: AFP...

Bagisu youths perform a traditional song and dance during an initiation ceremony in Mbale, 220 km (136 miles) east of Uganda. Bagisu initiates took part in a unique circumcision ritual marking their transition from childhood to adulthood in Mbale. It is believed that once a boy goes through...

Hundreds of same-sex marriage supporters march through San Francisco celebrating a federal judge's decision overturning California's same-sex marriage ban on California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who twice vetoed legislation that would have legalized same-sex marriage, has surprised gay...

Indonesian Muslim students march during a rally for Ramadan in Jakarta, Indonesia. -- PHOTO: AP Three boys wade in a waist-deep water as they search for any salvageable materials after a fire in suburban Malabon City, north of Manila, Philippines. Some 200 houses, mostly built of light...

People wear masks during the 12th edition of the Rotilla Festival of Electronic Music in Jibacoa beach, Cuba. Thousands of people came to the annual festival to enjoy three days of electronic music, hip-hop, rock and roll, video-art presentations and performances. -- PHOTO: AP Owen...

Paratroopers in the First Brigade of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division parachute float to the ground during a training jump at Camp Mackall, a training ground of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. -- PHOTO: AFP Anti-narcotics police officers break packages containing cocaine before...

Philippine members of the Free Burma coalition take part in a protest outside the Department of Foreign Affairs headquarters in Manila. The protesters in their press statement urged the Philippine government to pledge its support to the ongoing international campaigns calling for the creation...

Pakistani farmers carry belongings from their destroyed houses to tents set on the motorway in the outskirts of Peshawar. Pakistan's beleaguered authorities braced for a deluge in the country's farming heartland, evacuating half a million people from at-risk areas in the south as the worst...