Monday: The Day in Photos

Georgians hold up a distraught woman who fainted after learning of her son’s death in the town of Gori, Georgia.  (Zurab Kurtsikidze / EPA)

Italy’s Valentina Vezzali reacts after defeating South Korea’s Nam Hyun-hee to win a gold medal in the women’s individual foil fencing event at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.  (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

A Georgian man squats amid the rubble of a destroyed street in the town of Gori, Georgia.  (Zurab Kurtsikidze / EPA)

Players reach out for the ball during the preliminary pool B match in the women’s volleyball competition between Brazil and the Russian Federation at the Beijing Olympic Games.  (Valdrin Xhema / EPA)

Georgian soldiers march to their positions near the town of Gori, Georgia.  (Zurab Kurtsikidze / EPA)

A young Chinese boy enjoys jumping through a water fountain in front of the National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest, in Beijing.  (Franck Robichon / EPA)

A Georgian woman carries her belongings and a portrait of her husband in Gori, Georgia, just outside the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.  (Sergei Grits / Associated Press)

Natalie Coughlin of the United States swims the butterfly leg of a women’s 200-meter individual medley heat during the swimming competitions at the Beijing Olympics.  (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)

The dead body of a Georgian soldier lies on a water-covered street in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. Russia will carry out its peacekeeping mission in South Ossetia “through to its logical end,” Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.  (Yuri Kochetkov / EPA)

Archer Simon Terry of Britain takes aim during the men’s team competition at the Beijing Games.  (Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images)

An unidentified Georgian woman cries in the town of Gori, Georgia, just outside the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.  (Sergei Grits / Associated Press)

Germany’s Nina Worz, right, collides with South Korea’s Oh Seong-ok during preliminary women’s handball action at the Beijing Olympics.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

Friends and relatives cry as Vasily Bazayev, an ethnic Ossetian who was killed in Tskhinvali during the armed conflict between Georgia and South Ossetian separatists, is buried in Nogir, North Ossetia. The Russian foreign ministry has said that 1600 civilians have died so far in the conflict.  (Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP/Getty Images)

A man from South Ossetia who was injured in the armed conflict between Georgia and Russian-backed South Ossetian separatists lies in a hospital in Vladikavkaz, Russia.  (Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP/Getty Images)

Zhang Xiangxiang of China kisses the weight after lifting for the gold medal in the men’s 62-kilogram category of the 2008 Olympics’ weightlifting competition.  (Andres Leighton / Associated Press)

Patty Cardenas (No. 7) and Brittany Hayes (No. 3) of the United States congratulate their teammates after defeating China 12 to 11 in a preliminary-round women’s water polo match at the Beijing Games.  (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)

Friends and relatives mourn Vasily Bazayev, an ethnic Ossetian who was killed in Tskhinvali during the armed conflict between Georgia and South Ossetian separatists. Bazayev is buried in Nogir, North Ossetia.  (Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP/Getty Images)