World News in Pictures

[Mr Lick]

Ethnic Turkana children sing and dance at Kalokutanyang Mobile School as aid workers arrive to inspect them in Kalokutanyang, Turkana, northwestern Kenya, August 9. A local official says that relief food has not reached many parts of the Turkana region where more than half the population is dependent on relief food, resulting in increasing child malnutrition rate up to some 37 percent. Worsening drought is also exacerbating a cross-border armed conflict between Turkana pastoralists and Merille militiamen over resources such as Lake Turkana. At least 12 Turkanas were killed in an attack by militiamen from Ethiopia on August 8. According to the United Nations, almost three million people in Kenya, including half a million refugees from Somalia, are in need of food assistance amid the worsening drought. Turkana in the northwestern region is the hardest-hit area in Kenya.



After seeing faces made towards her, a bear in the Michigan City Washington Park Zoo sticks its tongue out at zoo guests Tuesday, Aug. 9 in Michigan City, Ind.

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The jeans of a student catches fire as they demonstrate in the streets of Tegucigalpa on August 9, 2011. Security forces across Honduras regained control of education centers which were occupied by students who oppose a plan to transfer the control of the public education to the municipalities for considering the privatization of the sector.



Sheilah Coley, left, chief of the Newark Police Department, is congratulated by Newark City Council member Mildred Crump after Coley was officially presented as the first female police chief in the history of the department, Tuesday, Aug. 9, in Newark, N.J.

[Mr Lick]

Mark Calvert, an OG and E lineman, stretches to reach a downed power line in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, Aug. 9. Strong thunderstorms that rumbled across central Oklahoma brought much-needed rain to water-starved areas, but also damaged several homes and businesses and cut power to thousands of customers Monday night.

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Diana Nyad cries as she speaks to reporters and fans after arriving back in Key West, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 9 following the 61-year-old marathon swimmer's failed attempt to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys.



Diana Nyad, right, gestures as U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents board her support boat in Key West, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 9. The 61-year-old marathon swimmer had to be pulled from the water early Tuesday during a second attempt to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys

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A publican boards up his pub in central London August 9. Thousands of policemen prepared to deploy on London's streets on Tuesday night to head off rioters and looters who have rampaged through parts of the British capital virtually unchecked for the past three nights.



London residents wait to be allowed through a police cordon to help council workers with the clear up after the rioting that took place the previous night outside Clapham Junction railway station in Battersea, London, Tuesday, Aug. 9. Britons swept up, patched up and feared further violence Tuesday, demanding police do more to protect them after three nights of rioting left trails of looted stores, wrecked cars and burned buildings across London and several other cities.

[Mr Lick]

A woman touches an ancient sculpture on display in the Kabul Museum in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 4. The sculptures, which had been destroyed by Islamists during the Taliban regime, were repaired after the collapse of the hardliners in 2001. Parts of the collection have been exhibited in seven countries.

[Mr Lick]

Amir Brean, 4, plays in a public playground at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011.



A Nepalese indigenous woman attends a program to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous People in Kathmandu on August 9. Various ethnic and indigenous people of Nepal took part in a parade calling for the preservation of their cultural identity.

[Mr Lick]

Families of victims of the Jan. 25 revolution register to collect aid payments from the health and social care fund, at the Leader Preparation Center in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. An estimated 850 protesters were killed during the Jan. 25 - Feb. 11 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's regime.

[Boon Mee]

Perhaps some British policymakers will take a lesson, though that's doubtful...

[Mr Lick]

Television crews broadcast from Wall Street, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 in New York. U.S. stock futures rose Tuesday, but only after swinging wildly in overnight trading following the worst day for stocks since 2008.



A woman carries groceries along a street in Beijing, China, on August 9. China said its politically sensitive inflation rate rose in July to its highest level in more than three years, as the government struggles to rein in soaring food costs.

[Mr Lick]

Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool riots



People kick in the window of a jewellers near the Bullring centre in Birmingham

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Riot police watch a car ablaze in St Pauls in Bristol, which saw 150 people rioting



Police question someone in Stokes Croft, Bristol

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New Delhi, India: A supporter of the opposition Bharatiya Janata party pleads for police to stop striking out, amid clashes at a corruption protest



Belgrade, Serbia: Officials attend a ceremony on the new Sava river bridge

[Mr Lick]

Moscow, Russia: Workers at Trading Invest watch the latest fall in share prices



Duisburg, Germany: A common seal sleeps in the water of his aquarium at Duisburg zoo

[Mr Lick]

La Union, Spain: The flamenco dancer Blanca del Rey performs at Las Minas de la Union festival



Havana, Cuba: Members of the Chinese circus perform during the opening of the 10th international festival of summer circus

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Warnemuende, Germany: A woman passes beach chairs in the Baltic Sea resort

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London riots aftermath: day 4

Residents of the capital join forces to clean the streets after another night of rioting and looting. Social networking sites such as Twitter are being used to mobilise volunteers keen to help clear the damage



A large crowd turned out in Clapham with brooms and dustpans to help clean up the streets



Fire crews douse burnt-out buildings on London Road in Croydon

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A police officer stands by the remains of the House of Reeves in Croydon. A massive fire consumed the 100-year-old furniture store

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A chair is left embedded in a restaurant window in Haven Green in Ealing, west London

[Mr Lick]

It's a fair cop guv!

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Residents armed with brooms prepare to clean up Clarence Road in the aftermath of riots in Hackney, east London

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Boris Johnson addresses the crowd in Clapham

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David Cameron talks to Superintendent Jo Oakley in Croydon



Rioters break into a local shop in Croydon



Riot police protect the entrance to Debenhams department store in Clapham Junction, south London