World News in Pictures

[Mr Lick]

In this image provided by the University Medical Center in Tucson, a CT scan shows a pair of pruning shears embedded in the head of an 86-year-old Green Valley, Ariz., man before it was removed by Medical Center surgeons in Tucson on July 30, 2011. Leroy Luetscher was accidentally impaled through his eye socket after falling on the shears while working in his yard, the handle penetrating his eye socket and reaching down into his neck. He is expected to make a full recovery.

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Portuguese fishermen separate the fish into boxes Monday, Aug. 29, in Caparica coast, near Lisbon. Along side the coast, fishermen use the common technique of trawling near the shore and pulling the nets out of the sea onto the beach by using an agricultural tractor.

[Mr Lick]

Pentagon Slammed Over Afghan, Iraqi War Contracts

Soldiers walk from wooden American-built housing to stone Soviet housing in Shinwar. As America withdraws forces, the Commission on Wartime Contracting reports $30 billion wasted on Afghan and Iraqi war contracts



Stabbing at London's Notting Carnival

A man is given emergency medical treatment by police officers after being stabbed in the stomach at the Notting Hill Carnival in London, England. He is reportedly in serious condition.

[Mr Lick]

No Need to Pass

People throw basketballs in the air as they participate in an event which set the world record for basketball bouncing in Vilnius, Lithuania. Approximately 60,000 people bounced basketballs for five minutes.



Gaddafi Family Members Flee to Algeria

The Algerian Foreign Ministry said that Muammar Gaddafi's wife Safia, pictured above in 2003, and three of the Libyan strongman's children arrived in the neighboring country on Monday. Muammar Gaddafi is still at a large.

[Mr Lick]

Train Troubles in India

Local trains pass through flooded railway tracks after heavy rain showers in Mumbai, India, on Monday.



More Chemotherapy for Cancer-Stricken Chavez

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who said over the weekend he would soon undergo a third round of chemotherapy in his battle against cancer, makes a gesture at the presidential palace in Caracas on Saturday.

[Mr Lick]

Congressional Showdown Over FAA Costs Taxpayers
A jet takes off behind a flock of birds at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. The partial shutdown of the FAA last month due to a congressional deadlock could cost taxpayers at least $468 million.

[Mr Lick]

Police and military stand guard as Egyptian Muslims gather to pray, celebrating the start of the three-day feast known in Arabic as Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Tahrir Square, the scene of mass demonstrations which brought down the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo on August 30.

[Mr Lick]

Railway and security officials gather around a train wreckage following a crash in Lahore, Pakistan, on August 30. At least two people were killed and 17 others wounded, five of them critically, when two trains collided.

[Mr Lick]

A supporter of controversial African National Congress (ANC) youth leader Julius Malema faces off with police in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 30 ahead of Malema's disciplinary hearing. Hundreds of Malema supporters threw stones and bottles at police while burning the ruling party's flag and T-shirts bearing the face of President Jacob Zuma.






South African police detonated stun grenades and fired a water cannon Tuesday at hundreds of stone-throwing members of the ruling party's youth league, who burned party flags and called for the president's ouster as their leaders were brought before a party disciplinary committee.

[Mr Lick]

A young man - a 'mozo' - dodges a bull during the fifth 'encierro' or bull run held at San Sebastian de los Reyes in Madrid, Spain, on August 30. This local fiesta is known as 'Pamplona Chica' (Little Pamplona) after the larger festival held in the northern Spanish town every July. The bull run left seven people with minor injuries and one in hospital.

[Mr Lick]

Rescuers carry a survivor out of a flooded pit at Hengtai coal mine in Qitaihe, Heilongjiang province, China, on August 30. Nineteen of the trapped miners in a flooded mine in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province were rescued early Tuesday morning, bringing the total number of rescued miners to 22, Xu Guangguo, vice governor of the province said, Xinhua News Agency reported.

[Mr Lick]

An unidentified man hangs on to a branch in a rain swollen creek as he waits for rescuers in New City, N.Y., on Aug. 28. He and three others went tubing in the creek and had to be rescued by New City and Stony Point fire departments' water rescue teams. With the rains and wind of Tropical Storm Irene heading north, some people went out for recreation in the unusual conditions left in the storm's wake.

[Mr Lick]

Menifee, California, US: A helicopter drops water to protect a home during a brush fire



Noflia, Libya: The sun rises above sleeping rebel fighters on the frontline. Rebels forces are moving from both the east and west towards Sirte, the last bastion of Gaddafi loyalists

[Mr Lick]

Jerusalem: A Palestinian street vendor shows off his toys on the first day of Eid al-Fitr



Daegu, South Korea: Nikoleta Kiriakopoulou of Greece competes in the women's pole vault final at the IAAF World Championships



Mohman Dara, Afghanistan: US soldiers from the 307th MP Company dismantle an outpost. The military is closing the outpost, only months after it was built, as it begins shifting troops, part of the overall gradual military withdrawal from Afghanistan



Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi desperate to get home to their villages for Eid Al-Fitr climb onto the roof of a train

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A rebel fighter walks across a highway near the town of Abu Grein, west of Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi's last remaining stronghold, August 29, 2011



Koji Murofushi (R) of Japan embraces his coach after winning the gold medal during the men's hammer throw final at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, August 29, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

Residents walk near a trailer as it sits on the beach after being washed out by Hurricane Irene at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Rodanthe, North Carolina August 29, 2011.



Policemen take pictures of the unfolding of a giant thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting unique to Tibet, during the Shoton Festival at Drepung Monastery on the outskirts of Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 29, 2011

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Rescuers and volunteers carry the body of a victim from tonnes of garbage piled up after the retaining wall of a dumpsite collapsed, killing four people and damaging several houses at the height of Typhoon Nanmadol, locally known as Typhoon Mina, in Baguio City, north of Manila, August 29, 2011. Nanmadol hit the northern Philippines late last week.



A maiden poses for a photographer at a makeshift studio before taking part in the final day of the annual Reed Dance at Ludzidzini, Swaziland, August 29, 2011. During the eight day ceremony, virgin girls cut reeds and present them to the Queen mother. The Reed Dance also allows Swaziland's King Mswati III, who currently has 13 wives, to choose a wife if he wishes

[Mr Lick]

Fireworks light up the night sky during the opening ceremony at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, August 29, 2011



L to R) Miss Canada 2011 Chelsae Durocher, Miss Brazil 2011 Priscila Machado, Miss Australia 2011 Scherri-lee Biggs and Miss Finland 2011 Pia Pakarinen warm up before they play an exhibition soccer match in Sao Paulo August 29, 2011. The contestants are in Sao Paulo for the 2011 Miss Universe pageant which will be held September 12.

[Mr Lick]

Police arrest a reveller on day two of the annual Notting Hill Carnival, central London, one of Europe's biggest street parties, August 29, 2011



Muslims pray outside the Grand Mosque during the Muslim month of Ramadan in Mecca in the early hours of August 29, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

A soldier inspects the site of a blast inside Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad's Ghazaliya district, August 29, 2011



The words and numbers 'Revolution 69', symbolizing the year Muammar Gaddafi came into power, are seen on a donkey in Ras Lanuf, August 29, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

Dmitry Starodubtsev of Russia breaks his pole during the men's pole vault final at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, August 29, 2011



A police officer walks past the body of a man who was shot dead by an armed passenger after attempting to rob a bus in Guatemala City, August 29, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet (C) speaks during a debate on the current situation in the markets at the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in Brussels, August 29, 2011.



Britney Spears declines a kiss as she accepts the Video Vanguard award from Lady Gaga at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles August 28, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

A bike is parked on Highway 12, the main road that connects Cape Hatteras National Seashore to the mainland, after it was destroyed by Hurricane Irene in Rodanthe, North Carolina August 28, 2011.



Life Among the Dead
A burqa-clad Afghan woman walks through a graveyard in Kabul on Monday.

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There Goes the Neighborhood

Derrick Arbuckle watches from the top of a parking garage as the Whetstone Brook floods downtown Brattleboro, Vt., Sunday. The remnants of Irene dumped torrential rains on the state, inundating towns and killing three people.



Polygamist Leader Reportedly Put in Coma
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs (here in a mug shot), who's serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting underage followers, was reportedly put in a medically induced coma at a Texas hospital on Monday after embarking on a fast.

[Mr Lick]

Arrests Made in Stabbing at London Carnival
After a 20-year-old man was stabbed Monday at the Notting Hill Carnival in London, at least five people have been arrested in the incident, the latest being a 16-year-old boy. Here: A man avoids being tripped at the big festival.



Lockerbie Bomber Near Death, CNN Says
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi (above in 2009), the dying Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and freed on compassionate grounds despite U.S. objections, was close to death in Libya, CNN reported on Sunday.

How coincidental