World Photos

A Chinese earthquake survivor, right, makes her way Monday to the building in Beichuan where her child died and leads her family members to other buildings where a total of 10 of their relatives perished in the May 12 earthquake. Tens of thousands of people remain buried in buildings toppled by the 7.9-magnitude quake. The official death toll has hit 55,000 and is expected to climb as more than 130,000 troops and relief workers spread into the mountains of Sichuan province. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Sept. 16, 2014 4:11 AM PT

A South African policeman uses a fire extinguisher on a man who was attacked and set on fire Sunday during xenophobic attacks in the Ramaphosa squatter camp east of Johannesburg, South Africa. South Africans of Zulu and Xhosa ethnicity attacked Mozambicans and Zimbabweans in attacks that have spread across the country’s economic heartland of Gauteng province, leaving thousands of foreigners destitute. (Jon Hrusa / EPA)

Brazilian Indians ride a bus in Altamira, Brazil on Wednesday. Amazon Indians and activists continue to protest a proposed hydroelectric dam on the nearby Xingu River. (Andre Penner / Associated Press)

Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leave the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas, on Monday. On Thursday, a state appeals court ruled that Texas authorities had no right to take more than 400 children from the polygamist sect’s secluded compound last month because officials never proved that the children were in imminent danger. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

A woman peeks into a tent Tuesday to see newborn babies as the new mothers recover. The makeshift maternity hospital was set up in a normally busy intersection in downtown Chengdu, China. Severe aftershocks from the May 12 earthquake have forced many to camp out in the streets of Chengdu. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Boys swim Tuesday in a pond by a house destroyed in recent fighting in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad. The Iraqi military has sent troops into the Shiite militia stronghold to seize control. (Karim Kadim / Associated Press)

Foreign children who have been chased out of their homes play Wednesday at the community center where they found refuge in Reiger Park outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Clashes among the poorest of the poor have left 22 people dead and focused attention on complaints that South Africa’s post-apartheid government has failed to provide enough jobs, housing and schools. (Jerome Delay / Associated Press)