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Drought, Famine Plague Somalia

A sick and malnourished child from southern Somalia sits on a hospital bed at the Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu on Monday. Nearly half of Somalia's 7.5 million people have been affected by drought, according to the United Nations.



Landslides Kill Dozens in Uganda

Ugandan Red Cross workers carry the body of a victim from the scene of a landslide in the village of Mabono on Monday. Landslides triggered by heavy rains in the eastern part of the country killed at least 29 people.




Trains Collide in Pakistan, Killing 2

Pakistani security officials and local residents gather beside train wreckage following a crash in Lahore on Tuesday. At least two people were killed and 17 others wounded, five of them critically, when two locomotives collided.

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Never Forgetting

A man places a portrait of a missing relative on a fence during an International Day of Missing Persons commemoration in Pristina Monday. Many Albanians remain unaccounted for after the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo.



Need Some Help, Big Fella?

A stegosaurus statue rests on its side at Jurassic Putt mini-golf in Nags Head, North Carolina, on Monday. The business was flooded when the Albemarle Sound washed over U.S. Route 158 during Hurricane Irene.

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Keith Beavers examines his tobacco crop in aftermath of Hurricane Irene in Mount Olive, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 30. Far from the beach towns that took Hurricane Irene's first hit, the storm inflicted some of its worst damage on inland farms from North Carolina to New York as crops were pummeled by wind, scalded by salt spray and submerged by floodwaters. Some farmers, like Beavers, are reporting total losses.

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Texas Blind Salamanders, an endangered species, are seen at the National Fish Hatchery & Technology Center, in San Marcos, Texas. As rivers and lakes are being sucked dry across drought-stricken Texas, wildlife experts are considering a move to new waters to save some of the state's endangered fish.



A tour boat is seen at San Marcos Springs, in San Marcos, Texas.



A San Marcos salamander, an endangered species, is measured for research at the National Fish Hatchery & Technology Center, in San Marcos, Texas.

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Libyan people rush to talk to a bank employee as banks reopen in Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday Aug. 30, 2011. Libyan banks reopened Tuesday, and the public rushed to get cash from their accounts.

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Local farmer Shu Mansheng sets up a propeller on the motorcycle engine of his self-designed and made flying device before the first test flight in front of his house in Dashu village, on the outskirts of Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province August 30.



Mansheng (in red) tests the engines of his flying device ahead of his first test flight. The round steel flying device, which cost more than 20,000 yuan, was the fifth model made by Shu, a junior middle school graduate. It measures up to 5.5 meters in diameter, and is powered by eight motorcycle engines.







Shu Mansheng has been able to focus on his aviation exploits after some advances in his career led him to a financial windfall. He retired from his day job and now works full-time on his aviation adventures. His latest scheme has consumed the equivalent of nearly $10,000. His dream is to create a school "where kids can learn things not taught in regular school," he told WorldTourist.com.

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Indian army personnel use a backhoe during a rescue mission to save a wild elephant trapped in a water reservoir tank at Bengdubi army cantonment area some 25 kms from Siliguri on Tuesday, Aug. 30.

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Tropical Storm Katia, bottom right, moves off the southernmost Cape Verde Islands on Tuesday, Aug. 30. The storm has maximum sustained windes of 45mph, and is moving west/northwest at 18mph.

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Patrick Boyle, The Earl of Glasgow and his son David, Viscount Kelburn pose at their home Kelburn Castle on August 30 in Largs, Scotland. The Earl of Glasgow has asked Historic Scotland if the graffiti can remain as a permanent feature of the Castle. The local council allowed the mural to be painted on the wall by Brazilian artists in 2007, with a three year limit put on the graffiti pending the start of rendering work at the castle.

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Libya war - The fall of Tripoli

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Rebels take imates out of the shattered remains of the notorious Abu Salim prison

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Actress Daryl Hannah is arrested as she joins a protest against the Keystone XL oil pipeline, outside the White House, August 30, 2011. Dozens were arrested in the protest against the pipeline that, if completed, will stretch from Canada to the gulf coast of the United States.

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Aftermath of Irene

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DC comic writer Scott Snyder speaks to excited Fans at DC Comics Midnight Madness Event Celebrating the release of New No. 1 issue of "Justice League" at Mid Town Comics on August 30, 2011 in New York City.






Jim Lee, artist and co-publisher of DC Comics with fans at Midnight Madness event celebrating the release of New No. 1 issue of "Justice League" at Mid Town Comics on August 30, 2011 in New York City.

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Standing on a neighbors porch in Stumpy Point, N.C., Darnel and Debbie Talbert lean on each other as Nationwide insurance agent Paul Tine checks on information concerning their policy on Tuesday, Aug. 30. The Talbert's house was heavily damaged by Hurricane Irene.

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Blues singer David "Honeyboy" Edwards performs at North Dallas High School in 2007 in Dallas, Texas. Edwards died of congestive heart failure Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, in his Chicago apartment at age 96.

A chapter of American music history is closing with the death of blues guitarist and singer David “Honeyboy” Edwards. He never achieved the fame of many of his colleagues, but Edwards was an influential voice among members of the music form that came out of the Mississippi Delta and traveled up to Chicago along with thousands of migrant workers.

His style was minimal and raw. Like many of the great Delta bluesmen, his music provided the source material that much of today’s music grew out of. Rest well and play on David “Honeyboy” Edwards.

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Cattle move to avoid the flames of a large grass fire in a farm off of Air Depot between 63rd and Wilshire in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, Aug. 30. Authorities have evacuated a larger area in Oklahoma City where a stiff winds and dry conditions fueled a wildfire that destroyed several homes.



Lee Walter hands out colored pencils during his first day as a full-time teacher at Brandywine Heights Middle School on Monday, Aug. 29, in Topton, Pa. Walter graduated from Albright College four years ago and went to work at a financial planning firm. But spending all day in a cubicle staring at spreadsheets wasn't for him, he said. So, he headed to Kutztown University for graduate work and to get certified to teach.

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A South Korean woman looking at the virtual retail shop at Seolleung subway station in Seoul. A major South Korean retailer has opened what it claims is the world's first virtual store geared to smartphone users, with shoppers scanning barcodes of products displayed in a Seoul subway station.

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Muslims head home on overcrowded ferries ahead of Eid al-Fitr in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Fans of the Fijian rugby team arrive in NZ ahead of the start of the 2011 Rugby World Cup

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A train passes along flooded railway tracks after heavy rain in Mumbai