Mark Hastings and spent his 46th birthday sandbagging the levee on the north end of Elnora,
Tens of thousands of South Koreans stage a candlelight rally in Seoul protesting an agreement to resume U.S. beef imports and demanding the resignation of new President Lee Myung-bak. (Jung Yeon-Je / AFP/Getty Images)
U.S. Army Sgt. Kyle Hale, of Yukon, Okla., helps contain an unruly crowd to protect a man who was nearly trampled outside the Al Rasheed Bank in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq. (Petros Giannakouris / Associated Press)
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A Palestinian woman cries after an Israeli army bulldozer demolished her house in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina, in occupied East Jerusalem. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP/Getty Images)
A girl holds out her hands to receive relief supplies from a private donor in Dedaye, Myanmar. The
Residents watch the Jian Jiang River flood through Beichuan, China. Debris from last month’s earthquake formed a dam that caused the river to back up until it finally flooded the already hard-hit town. (Liu Jin / AFP/Getty Images)
Chinese workers drill rocks to widen the Pitiao River, which was blocked by fallen rocks in a landslide triggered by last month’s earthquake near Wolong, China. (Alexander F. Yuan / Associated Press)
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Tibetan exiles protest against the Chinese government’s treatment of Tibet in front of the Chinese Embassy in Katmandu, Nepal. (Binod Joshi / Associated Press)
Kashmiri government employees are hit by a stream of colored water from a water cannon during a second day of protests against recent gasoline price hikes in India. (Tauseef Mustafa / AFP/Getty Images)
A woman walks past empty meat shelves in a supermarket in Madrid. A nationwide strike by truckers protesting gasoilne price hikes is starting to cause food shortages. (Philippe Desmazes / AFP/Getty Images)
A fisherman works on his nets on his fboat at the port of
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Spanish soccer fans dresssed as toreadors cheer before the Euro 2008 Championships soccer match between Spain and Russia in Innsbruck, Austria. (Michal Cizek / AFP/Getty Images)
A 6-month-old polar bear cub plays with its mother in an outdoor enclosure at the Stuttgart Zoo in Germany. (Daniel Maurer / Associated Press)
Two archaeologists work in a newly discovered cave under the Saint Georgeous Church in Rehaban, Jordan. Jordanians believe Saint Georgeous is the oldest Christian church in the world. (Jamal Nasrallah / EPA)
A yacht is anchored in the morning fog at the Achensee Lake near the Austrian village of Pertisau. (Lennart Preiss / AFP/Getty Images)