World News in Pictures

[Mr Lick]

Andy Kemp prepares to make her 29th jump of the day out of an airplane at Start Skydiving at Hook Field in Middletown, Ohio on August 9. Kemp is trying to set the Ohio record for most jumps in a 24-hour period made by a woman. There is no current record

[Mr Lick]

Supporters of former presidential challenger and opposition leader Kizza Besigye try to run away from Ugandan authorities in the town of Masaka in Uganda on August 10. Besigye pledged to join in with the protests at a candle-lit vigil in the town of Masaka, around 87 miles southwest of Kampala. Army and police fired teargas at a crowd of opposition supporters following the service as they tried to make their way to lay a wreath at the house where the child was shot.



Supporters of Kizza Besigye hold candles on August 10 during a memorial service for a victim who was killed earlier in the year by Ugandan authorities during demonstrations.

[Mr Lick]

A man with a torch walks in the Natur Eis Palast (Nature Ice Palace) inside the Hintertuxer Glacier in the Austrian province of Tyrol August 10. The glacier is located in the Zillertal Alps at the "Gefrorene Wand" (Frozen Wall) summit at 10,787 feet).



A woman takes a photograph of the Natur Eis Palast (Nature Ice Palace) inside the Hintertuxer Glacier in the Austrian province of Tyrol August 10. The glacier is located in the Zillertal Alps at the "Gefrorene Wand" (Frozen Wall) summit at 10,787 feet.

[Mr Lick]

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin embarks on a dive to an underwater archaeological site at Phanagoria on the Taman Peninsula on August 10. Russia's hard man Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pulled on a wetsuit Wednesday and went scuba diving at an ancient Greek Black Sea site in the latest populist stunt ahead of next year's elections.

[Mr Lick]

This Aug. 9 photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows polygamist leader Warren Jeffs in Huntsville, Texas. On Tuesday Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison for one count of sexual assault of a child and one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

[Mr Lick]

One of the more vigorous vents in Kilauea's Pu'u 'O'o Crater, seen at lower left, is topped by a 20-foot-tall spatter cone. The flow from this vent cascades down several steps, joining the flow from two other nearby vents, before going under a small bridge and into the broad area of ponded lava to the west.



After the collapse of the crater floor on Aug. 3, Pu'u 'O'o has been filled with thick fume. A very tiny flow, visible only with a thermal camera, was active on the crater floor.



This thermal image, looking southwest, shows the very small flow active in the bottom of Pu'u 'O'o crater. In the upper right, the active flows on the lower west flank of Pu'u 'O'o can be seen.



This view, looking east, shows the broad area of ponded lava fed by two main channels originating from several individual vents. The fume-filled Pu'u 'O'o Crater is in the background. The darker lava in the foreground is from the Kamoamoa eruption in March.

[Mr Lick]

Spc. Christopher Aust, 25, of Harrison, Ark., with the US Army's 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Ky., takes a picture of a rainbow at the Transit Center in Manas, Kyrgyzstan, while riding out a layover on the way home after completing a deployment in Afghanistan on Wednesday, Aug. 10. The 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division is returning home after a year in Afghanistan as the last brigade to deploy as part of President Obama's 30,000 troop surge.

[Mr Lick]

In this picture taken Wednesday Aug. 3, Gary V. Giordano, left, speaks with Aruba's police detectives as they search for his travel partner Robyn Gardner, 35, of Frederick, Maryland, at Baby Beach in the southern tip of the Caribbean island. Giordano, who claimed Gardner apparently drowned while snorkeling during a getaway to Aruba, has now become a suspect in her disappearance because his response to the incident raised suspicions of police. Earlier, the prosecutor's office said it decided to detain Giordano on Friday, as he tried to leave Aruba.



Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu on Wednesday, August 10.

[Mr Lick]

Bags of cocaine that a dealer labeled with a photograph of singer Amy Winehouse are seen at a police station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 9.

Photographs of Amy Winehouse are being used as a form of marketing by Brazilian drug pushers. Several hundred bags of cocaine labeled with a photograph of the late singer and the words "Amy House" were confiscated from a dealer in the Mandela slum of Rio de Janeiro.

[Mr Lick]

England v India: day one of the third Test

The best images from the latest Test at Edgbaston where victory for England would make them the No1 Test side in the world



England win the toss and decide to bowl first ... a brave move for any Test side but one which shows the confidence of this team



Stuart Broad rewards his captain's faith by taking Virender Sehwag's wicket. Sehwag was caught by Matt Prior for a golden duck with India on just eight runs

[Mr Lick]

Tim Bresnan is next to break through – quite literally this time – as he skittles the stump of the opener Gautam Gambhir, who had been batting well, reducing India to 59-2



His replacement Sachin Tendulkar lasts only eight balls ... he's caught by James Anderson at third slip for one

[Mr Lick]

Broad, who supplied the delivery for Tendulkar's wicket, celebrates with his team-mates



With Tendulkar gone cheaply India are in real trouble

[Mr Lick]

... and they're not helped by Rahul Dravid's inability to defend his stumps from the onslaught by Bresnan. India are 75-4



What a day this is becoming for Bresnan. His third wicket is that of VVS Laxman, who pulled his shot straight to fine leg

[Mr Lick]

England are jubilant once more as Amit Mishra is caught behind for four. India have only managed 111-5



Praveen Kumar leads the fightback before being caught behind off the bowling of Bresnan



MS Dhoni slogs them to the boundary in a bid to rescue India's total. He's hit 10 fours and three sixes. Even the spectators can't catch him

[Mr Lick]

But Andrew Strauss can! With Dhoni gone for 77, India have just one wicket. Ishant Sharma and Sreesanth are the final pairing, but they can't add to the visitor's total – India are all out for 224



Now it's England's turn at the crease. Strauss and Alastair Cook form a solid opening partnership, hitting 84 without loss off 150 deliveries before the close of play



Strauss and Cook have every reason to smile. It's been a fine day's work by England

[natalie8]

shows polygamist leader Warren Jeffs

WTF is wrong with his neck??????

[Mr Lick]

Modern-day gladiator impersonators are arrested outside the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, on August 10. Italian police have arrested gladiator impersonators in an undercover sting aimed at ending a violent racket that exploited tourists



Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann gather before the start of their debate in Ames, Iowa, on August 11.

[Mr Lick]

Pentagon names 30 American servicemen killed in downed Afghan chopper

[Mr Lick]

Voters put corn kernels into jars with their favorite Republican presidential candidates on the first day of the Iowa State Fair August 11 in Des Moines, Iowa. The candidates, including Mitt Romney, John Huntsman and Newt Gingrich, visited the fair ahead of Saturday's Iowa Straw Poll to greet voters and engage in traditional Iowa campaigning rituals.

[Mr Lick]

A fire truck is driven away from the fire during a forest fire that started at Santo Amaro de Tavares, Viseu, central Portugal, August 11.



Payton Doub of Danville, Ind., rest after brushing the cattle that were shown at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis, Thursday, Aug. 11.

[Mr Lick]

This combo made from photos provided Wednesday, Aug. 11 by the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office shows, from left, Ryan Edward Dougherty, 21, Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26, and Lee Grace Dougherty, 29. An FBI manhunt for the heavily armed siblings accused of shooting at a police officer in Florida and robbing a Georgia bank ended Wednesday with a police chase in Colorado, where shots were fired at officers before the suspects' car rolled and crashed into a guard rail.

[Mr Lick]

The sun rises behind an irrigation sprinkler near Lubbock, Texas, on Thursday, Aug. 11. In parched West Texas, it's often easier to drill for oil than to find new sources of water. After years of diminishing water supplies made even worse by the second-most severe drought in state history, some communities are resorting to a plan that might have seemed absurd a generation ago: turning sewage into drinking water.



A cow with a bloodied nose stands looking in the direction of rancher Randy Bolf, who stands nearby in San Angelo, Texas, on Saturday, Aug. 6. According to Bolf, the bloodied nose is a result of the cow having to eat prickly pear cactus since there is not much grass left for grazing on the 7,000 acre ranch that Bolf leases for his herd. On Father's Day 2011, a dry storm that past through the area caused a lightning strike on the property starting a fire the consumed nearly 3,000 acres of un-grazed pasture. Bolf now provides a large portion of the feed for his herd that is transported to the region from as far away as Canada according to Bolf.



Firefighters and state officials watch as a grassfire burns, on Wednesday, Aug. 10, near Interstate 35 South of Hewitt, Texas



The skeletal remains of a fresh water crab on the cracked, dry bed of Lake E.V. Spence in Robert Lee, Texas, on Sunday, Aug. 7. The drought that has turned Texas and parts of the Plains into a parched moonscape of cracked earth that could persist into next year, prolonging the misery of farmers and ranchers who have endured a dry spell that is now expected to be the state's worst since the 1950s.



A wild fire blazes Friday night in Texarkana, Texas, on Friday, Aug. 5.



The remains of several alligator gars are seen along the dried out bed of O.C. Fisher Lake Wednesday, Aug. 3, in San Angelo, Texas. A bacteria called Chromatiaceae has turned the 1-to-2 acres of lake water remaining the color red. A combination of the long periods of 100 plus degree days and the lack of rain in the drought-stricken region has dried up the lake that once spanned over 5400 acres.

[Mr Lick]

Solar car Nuna6 drives in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam on Thursday, August 11. The Dutch Nuon Solar team will participate with the Nuna6 in the 11th World Solar Challenge in Australia from October 16 - 23.

[Mr Lick]

Four residential buildings sit between concrete supports of a high-speed train line in Shuandun county, in Hefei, in east China's Anhui province. China has suspended all new railway construction projects, as controversy swirls over the nation's high-speed network nearly three weeks after a fatal crash sparked safety concerns.

[Mr Lick]

Members of the French regional farmers union (FDSEA) destroy crates of Spanish-grown fruit which are transported for sale in France at the Lancon de Provence toll plaza August 11. Some one hundred angry French farmers emptied the contents of four lorries carrying fruit grown in Spain for a lower cost and which competes unfavorably with French grown fruit.



A Spanish lorry driver reacts as he stands near crates of fruit destroyed by members of the French regional farmers union (FDSEA) at the Lancon de Provence toll plaza in southern France August 11. Some one hundred angry French farmers emptied the contents of four lorries carrying fruit grown in Spain at a lower cost and which competes unfavorably with French grown fruit.